The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, February 05, 1903, Image 6
A SERMON FOR SUNDAY
AN ELOQUENT DISCOURSE ENTITLED
"THE PF.ODICAL'S FATHER."
Jtn Cplifllnc Talk on Thin T'nuious Biblical
Story by llic Hev. Ur. J. Wllbir
S . Chapman?How It Iteveal* One i*art
of (iud'x Nature.
New York City.?The following sermon
entitled "The Prodigal's Father," it one oi
a series prepared for the press by the distinguished
evangelist, the Rev. l)r. .1. Wil
bur Chapman. It was preached irom the
text: "But when he was yci a great way
otT his father saw hint * * * and had
compassion and ran * and kissed
him * * * and said to his servants,
Bnug forth the best robe and put it on
him. and put a ling on his hand and shoes
on his feet, and bring hither the fatted
calf and kill it."' Luke xv: 20-23.
Of making many sermons on the prodigal
son there seems to have been no end.
Yet I was in the ministry fifteen years be-,
i fore 1 oreached from any part of the parable.
^ There may be many reasons why, as j
a rule, we mm away from it. it may be i
that the picture is too realistic.
i was standing in the prison chapel at
J ?act, Illinois, when a request was made
that 1 should c#rrduct a service for the conTicte.
Just as 1 was leaving the bui'ding
the officer said to me. "By the way, if you
should come do not preach upon any part
of the prodigal. We have had twenty-four
jnini<ters here by actual count, and every
on- of them rave us the prodigal son. and
these poor fellows have had about as much
prodigal as they can stand."
K may f.l?o lie that we have turned away
from it because it is such familiar ground
tnat rias lost us cnarni ior us. y was
sweeping through the magnificent Rocky
Mountain scenery some time ago. and when
vre had plunged into the Royal Gorge, and
later swung into the Grand Canon it
seemed to me that scen^rv more sublime
could not be found in all the world, and if
I had never been impressed before with
the existence of God I should have cried
opt unto Him in the midst of those mountain
peaks. I noticed that every one in the
car, with one single exception, was gazing
in rant admiration. Tins one woman was
intently reading a book, and to my certaha
knowledge she did not lift her eyes
once from the printed page while we were
in that wonderful scenery. When, we had
swung out into the great table land I overheard
her say to a friend. "This is the thirteenth
time I have crossed the mountains.
The first time I could not keep the tears
from rolling down my cheeks, so impressed
I, but now,'' she said. "I know it so
well that I frequently go through the whole
range with scarcely a glance cast out of
the window." It is thus, .alas! that we
read God's word, and thai which fills
heaven with wonder, and furnishes the angels
a theitie for never-ending praise, we
read with indifference or fail to read at all.
And yet my own confession is that T never
have had until recently the best ox this
torv of the prodigal.
I thought it was to give us a vision o" the
younger son, and as such it would be a
message to backsliders, and while this is
?ne part of the interpretation it is not by
any means me uesr parr, i nen it occurred
to me the story might have been given us
ihat we should take warning from the selfishness
of the elder brother, but I conceived
such a dislike for this character
that I never cared to consider him even for
a moment. But it has in these later days
become to me one of the sweetest portions
of all the New Testament because I believe
the parable was written that we might fasten
our eyes upon the father of the parable
'and in that father get a glimpse of God.
Did it ev$r occur to you that in the piclures
of the fathers of the Bible you were
wlways given a vision of one part of the
nature of God? Jacob crying out, "Me Ye
bave bereft of my children: Joseph is not,
"?iroeon is not, and now You will take Benjamin
from me." is an illustration of God
crying out in His great tenderness over the
lost. David exclaiming. "Oh. Absalom, my
son. mv son! would God I had died for
thee,"vis just a hint as to the wav God
feels over His lost ones for whom His Son
baa really died. And yet better than any
picture of a father as the revelation of
God is the life of the Son of God from
whose lips we have heard these words. "He
that hath seen Mc hath seen the Father."
But nutting all these things together, and
in the light of them reading the story of
-v?he prodigal, our hearts burn within us as
We see God.
I.
."BUT .WHEN HE WAS YET A GREAT
f* WAY OFF."
' These Trords must have a wonderful
meaning, for tlic measurement is from
^God's standpoint. It would he an awful
thing to be a great wav of? arcordini? to
mar? s conception, but when it is the coin>
Motion 0? One who is iatinite we are
otartled. and yet oar amazement gives way
instantly to adoration, for wc are told that
even if we are so great a distance from
Hint we- are not to he discouraged. In
.Acts ii: 39. we read that the promise is
,-unto ''all that are afar off." and in EpheVlans
ii: 13, 17. we are told that "Ye who
i*oinelime3 were far off are made nieh by
the blood of Christ." and thai Jesus Christ
t -"came and p_r -ached peace to you which
were r.Tar oi" " as well as to them that
were nigh. It ne'er is iny question with
-tied as to hcv deeply lias sinned. It is
a remarkable thing that throughout the
whole Bible He has ever chosen the most
conspicuous sins ar.u the most flagrant sinners
that He might present to us His willingness
to forgive.
God requires hut three things iff we
-would know Him in this way.
First, there must be a willing mind. In
Isaiah i: 19, we read, "If ye be willing and
obedient, ye shall eat the good of the
land." In another place we read. "If there
be first a willing mind, it is accepted for
what a man hath and not for what he
bath not" In still another place we arc
told. "If any man will do His will he shall
know of the doctrine." God Himself, infinite
though He may be, will not save us
against our wills.
Second, there must be a desire to know
Vr. tn.tk :t >f I ?1
ii<v viucn mat nc niaj uu iv. .ucic Miu?r
edge of the truth may be our condemnation,
and it is the saddest thing in the
world that so many people know and ret
are unwilline to do. It will be an awful
judgment which must finally fall upon the
rank and file of men because all their lives
thev lived under the shadow of the church
and heard the preaching of the word, all
?f which condemns them.
The third requirement is an honest confession
of one's intentious. God never
gives to one more light than be uses, but
if there is in the heart a single desire, however
faint, to know Him. and that desire is
confessed before men and unto God, He
enlarges our vision, sheds upon us more
abundant light. and it is always by tbe
way of confession that we cater into the
iulncss of joy.
n.
"IIIS FATHER SAW HIM."
M*\ Moody says that that father was
looking through the telescope of his love.
1 ivv always felt that he was looking
through his tears. It is said that when astronomers
want to increase the scope of
their vision they add to the number of
lenses, and sometimes our falling tears are
like the lenses in the telescope. They
bring objects far removed nigh unto us.
But what a comfort it is to know that
the Great Father ot us all looks after us
with a pity that is infinite and with a svm pathy
that is beyond conception. The
vision of the father of the prodigal was
limited, but God's eye sweeps through all
5-nace, and He see? us wherever we are.
Tde can even behold our thoughts, and
when you bowed your head and said, "I
ought to come," and partly lifted your
k -band as an expression of your intention,
or started to rise that vou might make pub r~r
~?
j ready to ran to meet voa. is all llial
Jle requires on your part. He is ready to
do all the re*;.
It is said that l)r. Rainsiord, of Knclaad.
in one or the Northlie'd eonurenees
at one time related the story ot an old
friend of hi*, a Herman professor. who
was an aeno-tie. and you Itnow the
creed of the agnostic is simply. "I do not
ltnow." This old professor c.une to visit
Dr. Rainsford and went with him to all the
j services of hi< church. When tne day was
ended the rector said to him. "Professor,
1 tell me what you think of it all." His answer
was. "It is beautiful, but thai is ail 1
can say." Then Dr. Kainsford put to him
these questions:
First. "Do you r.oi thin!: that it is possible
that there inav be a Hod?" and the
old professor said. ' Ves. possible."
Second. "Tlion do you not think that it
is probable that Hod has made a revelation
of Himself to His creatures?" and his
friend answered. "Ves. probable."
'i" 1 /J,? \ /?ti ttnf tliinlr."* s:i:il lir.
1 lltiu. ?? VII. ?|W ? ..WV ? ... .
'"that He would malic that revelation plain
if we were to ask Him?" and tli?* old professor
answered. "1 should think He would
be obliged to."
"Well." sai l IV. Rainsford, "h*.\r you
ever asked Him":" and the old man answered.
"No."
"For my sake.'' said he. "will von ask
Him now?" and they fell upon their knees
in the study, and iiie old minister said.
"Lord God. reveal Thyself unto inv dear
friend." When his prayer was ended he
said, "Xow. i'roiessor, yon pray." and the
old inan lifted up his eyes and said. "Oh.
God." and then as if he felt he had cone
I too far. he changed his petition, and said.
I "Oh. God. it" there he a God. show me the
1 light and I will and he was just going
on to say, "I will walk in it." when suddenly
lie sprang to hi? feet with his face
radiant ana shouted. "Why. 1 see it. I sec
it, and it is glorious!" lLs agnosticism
took wings and departed from him. Faith
' filled his heart and joy thrilled in his soul.
He has from that time to this been a good
disciple of Jesus Christ. In the light of
all this I make the plea, only encourage
your least desire, ana you shall come to
know Him whom to know is life eternal.
III.
j "HE HAD COMPASSION AND RAN."
[ I never knew until recently what that
word "compassion" meant. 1 know now
that it indicates one's suffering with another.
It is this that makes the story of a
man's transgression so pathetic. Other
hearts are made to ache and almost break.
Other eyes are filled with tears and other
lives made desolate. 1 can see this old
father going up to the outlook from his
home, gazing on in the direction which his
bov had taken, coming down the steps
again like David of old crying out? "On,
my ?on, my son. would God I had died for
you!" He had compassion.
We had in our city a young man who
was more than ordinarily prosperous in
his business, and his prosperity seemed to
be the cause of his downfall. It became
so marked that his partners called him
! into their oface to say that he must either
mend his ways or dispose of his interests
in the concern. His promises were good,
and all went troll for a little ser.ror, and
then when the failure was worse than ever
they insisted that he should dispose of his
interests to thorn, and with a great sum
of money he began to sink rapidly, lie
had gone from bad to worse until not long
ago they found him floating in the river,
for he had taken his own life. The story
is sad in the extreme, but the saddest portion
of it is found in the fact that there is
an old man to day going about the streets
of the city mourning for his son. He
scarcely lifts his eyes from the ground as
lie walks. Sometimes you behold him
with the tears rolling down his cheeks. He
has compassion. And it is a fact that one
never fcin?, breaking even the least of
God's commandments, that the heart of
the great and loving Father does not yearn
over him and long tor his return.
IV.
WHAT DID HE DO?
We all know this story so thoroughly
well that it would seem almost unnecessary
to emphasize things the father did
when the meeting between himself and his
son occurred, but lor the sake of the story
let me say:
First, "he kissed him." You will notice
that he did not wait until the boy's garments
hid been changed, or the signs of
his wanderings removed. There would
have been no grace in this. But clad in all
his rags he threw hi? arms about him and
drew him close against his heart, and gave
hiin the kiss which was the sign of complete
reconciliation. This is what Jesus
Christ waits to give to every wandering
soul. The old hymn says. "My God is
reconciled," and this is the teaching of the
Scriptures. It is not necessary that 1
should work myself up into a fever of excitement,
nor weep and wail in tlie depths
of my despair, but it. is necessary only that
I should receive what God offers me in
Texus Ch'.Vst. The llr<t step in tlic L'lirwtian
life* is. an acccpiance of that which
comes from above.
We had in Philadelphia a young man belonging
to one of the better families-, socalled.
who by his wayward actions disgraced
his father and finally hroke his
hear*. .After a little lie left I113 home,
went lo Baltimore, from there to Washington.
and after months of wandering determined
to return, lie was ashamed to
meet the members of his family, but he
knew that if he made a peculiar sound at
th<? tloor at tlio midnight hour there was
one v ho would hear and understand, and
when he stood before that door it was
swung open and without a word of reproach
his mother bade him welcome. The
next morning he did not come down from
his room, the second morning he was
ashamed to come, but the third morning
as he descended the stairway his brother,
a physician, met him and said. "Kdward,
mother is dying." She had been suddenly
stricken down and was anxious to see him.
He made his way into her room, knelt beside
her bed and sobbed out, "Oh, mother,
I beseech you, forgive me!' and with her
last departing strength she drew close to
him. placed her lips close to his ear and
j said. "My dea^ boy, I would have forgiven
| you long ago if you had only accepted it."
This is a picture of God. With a love that
is infinite, and a pity beyond description.
He waits to save every one who will but
simply receive His gift of life.
Second. I have always imagined that
when the father started out from the hou?e
running to meet his boy, that the servants
must have noticed him, and possibly they
ran alter him. wnen tne iamer saw mc
condition of the son I can hear him as he
turned to the approaching servants to say,
"Run. bring the best robe and put it on
him." and it is a beautiful thing to me to
know that when they brought the robe the
father wrapped it round about him, thus
covering over all the signs of his wandering.
This is what God does for me and
for vou. The moment we believe the
robe of Christ's righteousness is placed
about us, and God looks upon us as without
spot or blemish, for we are at once accepted
in the beloved.
I remember that when Jonathan was
dead and David wanted to do something
for some one that belonged to him. the
only one he could find upon whom he
inicht lavish his affection was poor, little,
lame Mephibosheth. He was lame on both
his feet, vou will remember (his nurse had
dropped him as she was fleeing away from
the enemy), but when David found him he
placed him at the king's table and in such
a position that his lameness was hidden,
and if you had been on the opposite side
from him you never would have known
that he had a mark of deformity about
him. This is what God does for every
Bior, wandering, lost one that comes tc
im. "I. even I, am He that blotteth out
all thy transgressions, and I will remem
ber them against vou no more forever."
Third, he put the lang on his hand. The
ring is always the emblem for complete
ness. And this was a beautiful illustratior
of the fact that the father's love was per
feet, and that his love had not been af
n
j fecicri l>y the wanderings of the boy. This
j is certainly true o? Clod, and I know no
! better figure to give a thought of His love
than that of the ring.
I "For the love of Hod is broader than the
measure of man's mind.
! Ai d the he,ul of the Eternal is most
wonderfully kind."
I Fourth, he put shoes on his feet. I can
I si'v i he poor bov as he hobbles on to meet
hi* father, his feet bleeding at every step,
for the *bors were worn and he walked
with difficulty. but when he was well shod
| with shot . from the king's house 1 can see
I linn iiki.ng ino nana ot rue o,a tamer .inn
running hack to liis home. One of the
I commonest excuses presented by men for
not yielding to Christ is the fear that they
may not hold out. but to me it is comforting
to know that the moment we arc saved
He nuts shoes on our feet, and that we are
shod with the preparation of the gospel of
peace.
V.
i "AND THEY KTLLED FOR HIM THE
FATTED CALF."
J I can see the old father as he runs from
i home to home exclaiming, "Come and reI
ioioe with me, for ray boy was dead and
is alive again. He was lost and is found."
and they begin to lie merry. One can never
have the fatted calf killed for him but
once, but one of the delightful things about
the Christian life is that we may repeatedly
sit down to enjoy the feast for others,
and it is thrilling to know that we never
have a time of feasting here that they do
not hare a time of rejoicing in heaven.
"For there i? joy in the nresenc of the angels
of God over one sinner that repentj
cth."
At the dose of a meeting in Joliot. Illii
nois. 1 s*t down beside an honored cvanI
gelist. Rev. H. AY. Brown, and among
! other things in his career, he told me this
story:
A number of years before he had a remarkable
work of grace in the lake region
of AA'iseonsin in that town of the strange
name. Oconornowoc. After his work of
grace he returned one day for a little visit.
ana as ne stepped on troin tne cars ne saw
at the station an old man named James
Stewart. Knowing him well he asked him
why he was there. The old man replied
that his bov had gone away from hoipe
and had said to him. "Father. I will return
some dav. but I can not tell when."
And said he. "I aim waiting for him to come
back." Strange as it may seem, thirteen
years' afterward he revisted that old town,
and tlm first man be saw when getting off
from the ears was this old father. He had
forgotten his story, but he met him. saying,
"Mr. Brown, he hasn't come yet. hut
he will come, and I am waiting." "Ju$t
then." said my friend, "I lifted up my
eves and saw one walking down the aisle of
the car, and said to myself. If I was not
sure that the boy was dead I would say
that that was the son." But other eyes j
had seen him. too. and with a great bound |
the old father sprang to the steps of the .
ear. and when the boy reached the nlatform.
and in less time than T can tell it,
he was in his father's arms. The old father
sobbed out. "Oh. my sop. thank God,
you've come, you've come." and then,
j turning to mv friend, ho said. "Mr.
j Rrown. I should have waited until I died."
Thus God waits, and looks and yearns and
lov?s. Thus Jesus Christ entreats us to
look unto Him and be saved, and in His
name I bid you come.
CoJ resolves.
We are about to start out on a new
year. It is worth something to make a
good start. It is a good thing to make a
few good resolutions at the beginning of
the year. We drift out of the way, pet
into bad habit?, and no time is better to
pull ourselves back into ripht courses than
the beginning of a new year. There is one
thing we can all do. and that is to resolve
to be a little more cheerful and genial than
we have been in the past. We can write
down the fact that we intend to sneak a
shade more kindly than the year before.
We can also resolve to show the world that
glorious morning face that Stevenson speaks
of. It is surely our duty to carry a cheerful
snirit into each day's task and trial.
We do well to count un our mercies and be
cheerful. It is an awful sin to go through
the world grumnv and morose. Thi3 is a
pood, glad world we are in. We are girded
round with mercies new every morning
and fresh every evening. If we give ourselves
unselfishly to the service of others
we shall find jov and gladness everywhere.
?The Rev. J. B. Silcox.
"The Greatest of These S? Lore."
Christian fellowship is possible only because
of love. It is the only ground on
which different faiths can meet. Christian
unity is not and cannot be found in creed,
for there are no two persons of the same
church even that read and understand the
Scriptures alike, much less those of different
faiths. Instead of being nearer together
after e. discussion of their creed
they nr.* further apart. Christian unity
cannot be effected in our creed. Such is
impossible. It is not found in our politv.
TTorc the same difficulties confront us as
before. Xor is it to be found in our tastes.
Indeed, if there is any difference it is that
we get farther apart here than on any
other ground. Creed, or polity, or tastes
are not possible grounds of unity, indeed,
they are impossible grounds. There is but
one possible ground, and that is found in
love. We niav differ in our ideas eoncern
1' 1:4.. j ?-4 u.
if we have love in our hearts we can strike
hands with our neighbor and say, "My
brother."?Ram's Horn.
II]e*sins; Ourselves.
Cod blesses u.i by enabling us to bless
ourselves. Blessings are largely the result
of reaction; they are the return upon ourselves
of that which we do. .Tint a^. modern
mechanism has made the recoil of
great forces a great part of the value of
those forces ? the recoil of rapid - fire
guns does almost all the work of those
guns?so divine Power makes, out of the
reaction of what we do, our own fates to
condemn us, or our own angels to bless us.
We confess this truth in the proverb that
we make our own beds, and must lie on
them. God gives us the words of life?
words of labor or duty or love or burden,
but we set them to music, and life is a j
melody or a threuody largely from the way <
in which we set the measure. Familiar j
are Emerson's words: "If you love or
serve, you cannot, by any hiding or strata- I
gem, escape the remuneration." God rules, j
and God so rules that no man or manner i
of event can rob us of the prize that God j
has fitted us to prepare for ourselves.? j
Sunday-School Times.
Power of Oae Belief.
Have you ever thought what a change
it would make if you believed with all your '
heart and soul and strength and mind that
God is? This one belief would alter every- j
thing. Some may even think that it would 1
change too much; it we realized Uod as j
He really is we could think of nothing :
else. This I do not admit. The thought j
of God should.be to the best of our thinking,
like the sky to other objects of our
landscape, always there, blue, serene, uni- |
fving. In His presence, constantly and
steadily realized, everything would find its
right place- it would be easy to do right ,
and difficult to do wrong. In fact, the
problem of life would be solved.?James ;
s Stalker.
As We Sow.
\ There is a flower called heartsease, j
, which flourisheth on the meanest soil when I
; fed with good deeds and kindly thoughts, |
r and 'tis worth a king's ransom to its pot- j
> sessor. That same flower had its roots
; deep in the heart of God, and its fruit'
unto eternity, where every good shall reap
its unfailing* harvest of weal, and every ill j
i deed find its just meed of woe. We need i
not think to cheat ourselves with the
i fancy that God's law can fail. Here and
. hereafter we shall reap as we hare sown.?
. A. L. Glym
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"A little more grape. Captain
Bragg." said Geenral Taylor, at the
battle of Buena Vista. And so we say
now to Captain Teddy. "A few more
niggers to offices up north and a few
more to our southern postoffhes. (Jo
the whole hog while you are at it.
McKinley gave you a starter by appointing
a negro over a white community
at Hogansville, and another at
Athens, th'1 cultured college city of the
south, but ho got alarmed and took the
back track. It was just such a case as
you have now in Mississippi at Indianola,
for the people of Hogansville
went 4 miles to get their mall rather
than take it from a negro?a dirty politician."
Teddy has done no worse on
the postofiice line. The postoffices are
the people's not the president's. They
are almost as near to us and as sacred
as is our preacher or our family physician.
No greater insult, no greater
outrage upon our rights, could be perpetrated
by a tyrant than to appoint
a negro as postmaster in a white community.
The difference between Teddy
and Mr. McKinley is that the latter
Played fool for a while and quit, but
Teddy keeps it up and grows more defiant
of southern opinion and southern
indignation. Sometimes providence afflicts
the people with a fo6l, and sometimes
with a knave to tyrannize over
them, but it looks like we are to have
both fool and knave in the same person.
But "the Lord loveth whom he
chastenth."
A medical friend from over the line
writes nie that he has a growing sense
of justice and abounds in sympathy for
our long-suffering people, but that Teddy's
deformity does not come from
original sin or total depravity, but
from physical defects in his anatomy,
and says:
"I have strtied his cranium and find
that he has too small a cerebellum.
His occiput goes straight up from the
medulla oblongata and meets the sinciput
at right angels and leaves no
room for moral attributes. A perpendicular
back head like Teddy's indicates
a fighting, bear-killing, athletic
and foolhardy man. The aphryon and
the messial plane are cramped together
and Teddy's back head is a perpendicular
plane without hill or dale. A
man with a very small cerebellum is
peculiar, and it will be found on inspection
of the sinciput or forehead
thai the nose and cheek bones generally
rest on an enormous jawbone, or.
as you might say. the jawbone of an
ass. If Teddy had lived in Sampson's
day he would have rejoiced to have
been his armour-bearer, and carried his
jawbone some."
Just so?exactly?not only so. but
also. 1 understand it all now. and
thank my medical frieud. The lack of
cerebellum and medulla oblongata and
occiput has made Teudy crazy about
bears and negroes and other black
woolly things. But I should like to
know what kind of a cerebellum that
fellow Crumpicker or Stumpsucker or
Dirtdauber has got. that mattes mm &u
venomous toward our people. At
Teddy's request he has introduced a
resolution to have a committee appointed
to visit Indianola and see what
our people are doing to the colored
postmistress. Of course, he will be appointed
chairman of the committee, but
I'll wager ten dollars he don't go. He
is nothing but a gas bag and a coward.
Mr. Thompson tried to get him to
come down to Alabama and see how
the negroes on his big plantation were
getting on. He was invited and accepted
the invitation, but he did not come. He
was afraid. And that is what discourages
me about any growing sense of
justice prevailing among the common
people up north. If they are getting any
kinder why .do they send such a malignant
man to congress? Hating the
south seems to be the stock in trade of
most of the northern members. The
brainy men, like Charles Francis
Adams, have modified very much of
late. Forty years ago he was commanding
a nigger regiment down here
for which I will never forgive him. but
lately he has made a speech at
Charleston and another in New York,
in which he says comerning the right
of a state to secede: "If we accept the
judgment of modern students and investigators
it would seem as if the
weight of argument falls into the confederate
scale. The Issue was settled
by might and not by right." Then why
don't they pension our soldiers and
nay us for the property they destroyed
?and ask our pardon besides. Four
generations! Old John Adams. John
Quincy Adams, his son Chas. Frances
Adams and now this Charles Frances,
his son. and he is 70 years old and has
been forty years finding out that we
bad the right to secede and they had
no right to free our negroes without
paying for them. Besides all that, this
Adams took charge of a whole regiment
of our runaway negroes to fight
us with. Lew Wallace did the same
thing. Yes he did worse. He was president
of the court that tried Wirz and
convicted him and hung him on perjured
evidence. The longer I live the
more I am convinced that as a general
rule the smartest men are the
meanest?especially the -politicians.
Think of Henry Ward Beecher preaching
from his pulpit that Sharp's rifles
were better than Bibles to convert the
slave owners of the south and so his
people bought the rifles and the ammunition
and told old John Brown to
go ahead. But the niggers were loyal
to their masters and wouldn't burn
nor kill nod destroy. And henee Lew
Wallace and Adams and many others
armed all they could muster up and
joined the grand army and marched
* am* Kolnlooa TrnniPn
til em aowu upuu uui
and children. At that time there were
30,000 runaways up north?fugitive
slaves?the meanest of the race and
nobody but an unprincipled dog of a
man would have led them against us.
Down further south the negroes mixed
with genetlemen and were true and
faithful during the war and as General
Henry R. Jackson said, they ought to
have a monument built to their loyalty
as high as the stars.
But. pshaw! What's the use of
scratching the old sores? Let them scab
over. Are we not all brethren since the
Spanish war? Did not we all light and
bleed and die together in Cuba? Don't
the editors and political orators tell
us that fraternal peace prevails/"*
tr.e#n the sections? I am still si<r
have been out of the house but twice
in three months, Jfnd maybe that is
why I brood and ruminate over the ^
wrongs we have suffered. When the j
spring comes and the birds begin to (
J * 1 a klnnm mOuKh
sing ana ine nuwti? iu uiuuiu mnjw.1 (
I will write more loving letters; and ,
if Teddy will retract and apologize for .
Che lies he told on Mr. Davis I will let J
Sim alone, considering that his cerebellum
is limited by the medulla oblon- (
lata and the sinciput.
I never read the modern novel. They
come and they go and are forgotten;
hut Miss Pettus. of Alabama, sent me
the "Princess of (i'endale." and I reluctantly
took a glance at the first page
and got caught. 1 turned the leaf and
read on and had devoured one hundred
pages before breakfast and all of
it during the day. It is a faithful and I
charming recital of southern home
life on a big plantation before the war.
Then the war comes, with its distresses.
and Forest with three hundred
men pursues Stract with fifteen
hundred and captures him, and Miss
Emma Sanson figures as a heroine in
guiding Forest across the river, and
then comes the sad story of Sam Davis,
the typical southern hero. Interest
never flags in the beautiful story, and
it will be a landmark for our children
and children's children, for It ia faithful
to the truth of confederate history.
?Bill Arp in Atlanta Constitution.
P. S.?The Constitution is mistaken.
Williams, who made that beautiful
speec h in New York, was not northern
Williams, but southern Williams. Me is
from Missouri, and said "we of the
south." Not a northern man exoppt
Charles Francis Adams said a kind
word for us. and he left out Mr. Davis.
If he had said what Watterson said or
what southern Williams said heeoudn't
have gone back to Boston. B. A.
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
1 The German Crown Prince is said to
be an expert skater.
King Edward is said to be the latest
victim to the fascination of the cakewalk.
The Czar lias sent SoOOO to President
Loubet for the relief of tbe destitute
French fishcrfolk.
Andrew Carnegie has offered to give
Brainerd. Minn.. 512.000 for a library
1 under the usual conditions.
The condition of Charles M. Schwab
causes some anxiety, though the reports
given out say that be is well.
The Presidency of the Golden Rule
League, just established at Dayton.
Ohio, has been offered Senator Ilanna.
Judge Me. of the Philippine Commission,
has been granted six months'
leave of absence. His health is impaired.
The King of tbe Belgians lias paid a
private visit to London, in furtherance
of a scheme for the better government
I nf tlio ('micro.
Henri Wlllem Mesdagr. the Ilollaml
i painter, has decided to offer his famous
collection of paintings to the
Dutch people. The collection is valued
at several million llorins.
W. II. Osgood, of the United States
Riologi< al Survey, hits just returned
from :t biological exploration of the
base of the Alaska peninsula and the
region between Lake Clark and the
Xushagak Itiver.
Benjamin Kidd, the economist, who
has just made a tour of the new British
South Africa, says he believes the
country to bo richer than the United
States west of tile Mississippi, and believes
that its future is assured.
Pope Leo XIII. retains his interest
in his native village. Carpinato. Ho
euiovs visits front the natives, and lie
has (lone much for the improvement
of the place, giving it, among other
tilings, waterworks and a hospital. He
has directed that tiie house in which
ho was horn be converted into a Tope ?
Leo Museum.
LABOR WORLO.
There are 22.000 casual laborers In
Liverpool, England.
I'apcrhnugcrs at Indianapolis. Ind.. J
nro making arrangements to form a i
union.
United Mine Workers at Dudley. ?
Ala., have received an advance of live 3
cents a ton. j
Cincinnati (Ohio) contractors have i
signed the st ale presented by the strik- I
iug plasterers. *
With a promise of an adjustment of t
wages Bessemer. Mich., minors have ;
returned to work. v
Carpenters at Cheyenne. Wyo.. have T
returned to work. The men struck for ,
11 fly cowts au liour.
.Holders at New Haven, Conn., have f
made a formal demand for an increase
iu wages avcr#fing nearly ten per
cent.
During 1902 Bridgeport showed a
greater growth of industrial establishments
than any other city iu Connecticut.
?
Two thousand shoemakers are idle J
at Leicester, England; several thou- (
sand in Germany and some in Vienna,
Austria.
At Maynnrd. Mass.. the spinners'
strike has been settled. It is believed
the men have been conceded practically
all they asked.
On and after April 1 the organized
enrpeuters of Schenectady, N. Y., will
demand forty cents an hour. The prevailing
rate is thirty-five cents.
The number of people employed in
the British civil service now exceeds
500,000. Of these over 100,000 are employed
by the i>ostoffiee.
All the lithographers in Cuba are ,
employed iu Havana. There are 400 '
men employed in the trade, and their ,
wages amount to *100,000 a month. c
The number of employes in the New
York City municipal service has
reached 45,290, of whom 12,000 are
teachers and 10.000 members of the
police and lire departments.
Chinese Government Advancing.
The Chinese imperial government
has taken another step in advance by {
i appointing a Japanese scholar of dis- (
tinction, Dr. Unoklchl Hattbri, to a
professorship in Pekln university. The
doctor was in that city during the "
siege. He is to be dean of the school
of literature. The appointment is a
sequel of the visit of the famous Chi- .
nese educator, Wu Ju-lun, to Tokio to |
.familiarize himself with Japanece oduJal
roathmJs.
k;
News Notes.
After making a great splutter about
prohibiting betting on horse races the
British commission appointed to in
quire into the matter has come to the
conclusion that if the law prevents
school-boys from indulging in the
practice it is about as much as can be
expected.
Pope Leo. in receiving Mgr. Denis
o'Connell. bestowed encouragement 011
the Catholic University in Washing- .
ton.
B?w?r* of Ointments far Catarrh That
Contain Mercury,
as mercury will surely destroy the sense ol
smell and completely derango the whole sys.
tem when entering it through the. Kueowe
surfaces. Bueh articles should neyer be a sad
except on preemption* from reputable phTsieians,
as th* damage they will do is ten fold
to the good yotf possibly derive from
them. Hall's Cataarb Cure.manufactured
by F. J. Cheney k Co., Toledo, 0.. contains
no mercury, and is taken Internally, acting
directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces
of thes'ystem. In buying Hall's Catanrti Cure
1* sure'to get the genuine. It is talcon internally,
and is made in Toledo, Ohio, by F.
J, Clieney A Co. Testimonials free.
GrSoid by Druggists; price, 75c. per bottle.
Hall's Family Pills are the best.
Strange as it may teem, the way te raze
a house is to take it dowa. .
VWM. ? .->? ?w. ? i-^nt.i
My Lungs
" An attack of la grippe left me
with a bad cough. My friends said
I had consumption. 1 then tried
Ayer's Cherry Pectoral and it
cured me promptly."
A. K. Ranares, Nokomis, III.
You forgot to buy a bot- ,
.? o A 1 /> 1 r\
tie or Ayer s ^nerry sectoral
when your cold first
came on, so you let it run
along. Even now, with
all your hard coughing, it
will not disappoint you.
There's a record of sixty
years to fall back. on.
Tfcm abas: 25c, Mc., SI. AlUraateU.
Consult yoar doctor. If bs uji tmko It.
than ib u ha ssys. If ha tells yon not
to taka'M. than don't take tv. 3a knows.
Laura It with him. W* are wi'liaj.
J. C. A YER CO.. Lowell, Maes.
makes a fat purse.
A fertilizer without
Our books are complete treatises JaaSm
9 on fertilizers, written by
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UNION M4D^
I * W. L Doagtaa mahmm and walla
norm man'a Gapdyaar Waft (Handfanrod
Ptokwww) whaow than any othaw
nanufaaiuror In lha mMfc
$25,Q?p EEWAED
rill be {J8W to anyone who rj y 'IsSt
an disprove Ule statement. ?p:..
Because W. I> Douglas - ^
sthe largest manufacturer Saj^pt
te can Duy cheaper and &TJ ? fij
trod ace his shoes at a >y
ower cost than other con- bS/BmL /
ems, which enables him A
o nell shoes for S3.50 and I
(3.00 equal In every '"'/fyray
to those sold elsechore
for 84 and 85.0Q. H9H8liraP?wN
W. L. Douglas $3.50 t&Ee\W&/AWWN
jid?3shoes are worn by thousands of men wha
iave been paying84 and $5,uot believing they
ould get a first-class shoe for 83.50 or 83.00.
He has convinced them that the style, fit,
ind wear of his 83.50 and $3.00 shoes is just
a good. Give them a trial Ad save money.
Nedee Increase /IMSSalts: M,SM,?H3,*1
IiBwIhmi jlKBSalM: is,0*4.840,00
A sain of at*. SO. US. 19 la ?oar Year*.
W. L. DOWCUAS $4JOO CHUT BOOK LINK,
Worth MJO Oompared with Other Make*.
The beet Imported aad America* leaUton, Heyl'e
'atent Coif, Enamel, Box Calf, Calf, Vlcf Kid, Corona
'alt, and KetloAal Kangaroo, rati Color Eyelet*.
*sti4Ua aenmna have W. L. fiOUGULS
MUliUU name and price stamped on bottom.
.short by mail, tie. extra. Uhu. Catalog fret.
W. L. UOl'SLAS, BKOCKTOIT, W*M,
HEADACHES
CUH.ED WHILE YOU WAIT. BY
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NO EFFECT ON THE HEART.
_ wanted"
3BO Toung Mon
UohmI?<i?||I; for koo4 pealtlona which w*
*111 foirHlM In writing under a $5,000
teponlt u> promptly procure them.
The Qa.-Ala. Bus. College,
MACON, GEORGIA.
teoolae stamped C C C. Never sold la balk.
Be war# tl fte dealer wbo tries to seS
"wnettoj jbst u good."
So. 6.
Peuvrs HpEasfclfitf
banirt. Superior to tie Hoffaxkn. Now
*tjg*Stic the fcit Mine. to other r?