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?k S?ait muan M? Jlooljpii. WKDSBSDAY. JULY 26, 1893, THE LOVE OP MONEY. REV. THOMAS DIXON'S SECOND SER? MON ON MONEY AND CHRISTIANITY. It ts Not Money, bat tan Undae Love of It, Wk ic h ls tbe Great Er il-Heartless Prov ?rb? of Bard Hearted Mosey Seekers. Jtarders Ia Trade. Caf? Cteam.FS, Va., Jilly 9.-Rev. Themas Dixon, Jr., preached on Cobb's island today tbe aacond sermon in the series on the question .of money and its refaction to tho .gospel of Christ. The proprietors of the hotel on the island have arranged &B? nodule of three boats on Sandays to coev?y the peeble from the mainland to the island "to :?Tfc?nd the services, Tba text chosen for the dis ooorae-fevday was tbe proverb, "He that haft an evileye hasteth after riches," the specific subject being the "Money Ma? ria*" ft te cot a sin to be r4cb if ocr riches mo righteously obtained. And yet a ?maand dangers beset the man who eets oat with the determination to. be rich, it isjwsier for a camel to go through-She eye of ? needle than fora nc>-mantotenter the kingdom of heav ?en. fie is almost sure to reach the crisis rn his experience when he w?l say, .?Soui, take thine eaa?; 1 hare much .goods laid ap for thee&n store," and enter aroona downward course from that ino . trent. The determination to get rich at all hazards maj'be termed a modern dis? ease. It is a money mania. It is the^ril eye of the closing days of this century. lt has thrown its spell over millions. It is a disease which sweeps before it the whole nature of mam that lays waste not only the fairest hearts and what might be the fairest homes, but that lays ?reste what might be the gardens of the ?nations. It is this modern disease of the .evil eye of haste for riches that is one of the most withering corses of car age. First-It denies and abrogates the par? amount law of industry. In the sweat of man's brow shall he eat bread, de? creed the eternal God, echoed the eternal sature. And yet men in modern times have said that they will do nothing of the sort. They w?k eat bread without labor.' They w?Jeat fcread by trick, by chicanery, by overreaching, by swin? dling, by cheating, by humbug. This abrogation of the paramount law of in? dustry brings us face to face with the submerged millions in the industrial world, with the countless thousands and hundreds of thousands who cry for bread, who are caught in the vicious un? dertow of this angry ?ea of human ava? rice and are dragged to the bottom of the deepest sea of human misery. In the mildest developments of this mania it is simply gambling, and its necessary cor? ollaries are hard times, panics and the ?periodical disturbances of the industrial -world which result in thousands of ?wrecks. COTTAGE BY TEE SEA. 'Second-It leads to a thousand crimes. "The desire and the determination to get i rich, and that shortly, is the power that .leads the man intrusted with money to ? risk that money in questionable transac? tions. It is this haste to be rich that ; sketches for your cashier and your mer ?chant and your bank officer the wild .dreams of luxury which lead at last to an .outer act of criminality. The cashier from bisdesk dreams of a palace, of horses and carriages, and the cottage by the sea, a jnagninceni mansion in the city. He is ?not willing to obtain his money hythe .-slow process of work. He beberes that J? can stake a certain sum and win; with jthe turn of the wheel of fortune can be -rich in a day. He stakes other people's money, and the result is crime. These ?crimes are but simply eccentric and aes? thetic developments of the older crimes .against person founded on the same prin .ciple. A highwayman is a highwayman be xause he determines to be rich suddenly. .'The burglar is a burglar because he de asires to get rich in anight. And the mur? derer destroys his victim for his money because he desires to be rich immediate- | \y. Highway robbery, burglary, mur- j ?er. for money, are the originial brutal -elements out of which the more aesthetic modern developments of hasty riches have sprung. It is this mania that leads io a?thousand crimes today against soci? ety. The dive, the gambling den, the saloon, the brothel, have as their funda? mental inspiration the desire for sudden riches. There are individual idiosyncra ttjes that develop them, but there .are thousands of fives drawn to this whirl? pool of vice and crime by the attractive power of the evil eye of money. A believes that he can become rich rapidly hy keeping a saloon. He is willing to trade in human hearts and human blood to accomplish that purpose. A man is willing to debauch his fellow man in a gambling hell, believing that he ?av suddenly acquire a great fortune. THE BEST MAH. Third-This manja as it grows in men emphasizes and develops all that is cen? tral ia self. It necessarily makes a mau mean and selfish. It causes a mac to ea? ts: his heart's affection upon that one thing. He esteems that to be his treas? ure of life. Where a man's treasure is, there will his heart be also. It will hard? en and make mean the poor man who is afflicted with the mania as weil as the rich who have gone beyond the hope of recovery. I heard of an old farmer in Maine who sent a son into the war. Ile was killed ia battle. The old mas after? ward expressed his regrets. He said that he had made a great mistake: that he ought to have had a substitute. He said that he could not get a man anywhere in the country to do as much work on the. farm as that boy and that he wa? the smallest eater he ever saw. An old man who had emphasized this : thought in his life above all others went to ? meat market and decided to content himself with a bone for soup. He asked the market man-a big. fat Dutchman, jolly and good natured-the price of a Lone which he eyed wistfully. The mar? ket man told him nothing at all; take * the bone along if he wanted it. The old man.who was a little hard of hearing, put his hand to ht3 ear and asked. J*Cannot you knock off a little?" The market uv.::i laughingly replied, "Yes, he would take 10 cents for it." The old mun paid the dime and went away chuckling over his great bargain. It is. necessarily trw that as we develop this principle in iii?' we overreach ourselves. 'The attempt to develop self ia sure in the process to de? stroy self. j Fourth-This mania surely and thor? oughly destroys Christian life. The , man afflicted with it begins at once to cultivate these delightful mottoes, ole but awful in their meaning: "Dog eat dog." .'pc-v? take care of the hindmost." "Business is business." "The best man is the man that get? ! there." 'Resolved, That wewill love ourselves, j as oar peighbor loves himself, and we } will make it hot for any man that tries to outdo us in this labor of love.** He prays only that familiar prayer, \ "Lord, bless me and my wife, my son John, his wife, us four and no more." A man died the other day in tho fel? lowship of a Christian church. He pos? sessed millions, but he wrote that pray er out in ins will when lie left tue ? "Lord, bless me and ray wife, nr John and bis wife, we four and noi Amen. Th? devil take care of th< asee.* COR??ER IN rjRowxs. I do cot know What a man Who n this principle th? ruling one of his will do if he ever gets to heaven, say that some of these men Whc money, who think money, who br? money, are going to heaven. ' names are on the church books. T they will do when they get there I not understand. Sam Jones deo that if some of them get there the ance of the people will have to : with their pocketbooks under theil low. I am not sure but that he is r How & man who has spent his life ii supreme effort to create a corner ir nous commodities and prey on the n? sities of his fellow men, how he can ter the kingdom of Jesus Christ am comfortable is more than I can ur 3tand, evett with Christ who is love peace and righteousness. His life m Sk corner. It means to get his neigh .at a disadvantage and to prey on hii oeesities. He lives in corners, he th kt corners, he moves in corners. "VS foe dies, he will die in a corner, and i ever gets .te ?eaven he will sit down crafter, ?tece will be a cornez ! crowns within 34 hours after he ?there if tfhey turn Mm loose. It is very easy to say that this is a perficial view of the modern method I the commercial world and is based u ; impractical education and imposs i ideals. It is very easy to say that ! person is talking, and he does not ki I what he is talking about. Again 3 ?peat, any hen can lay an egg. W IC cannot r>erform that feat, I am a be ? judge of eggs than any hen in the wo Moral judgment is not dependent u; any intimate knowledge of technic ties. Great taara! truths are so sire that a wayfsaang man, though a f< need not err therein. A lie is a Theft is theft. Gabbling is gambli A spade is a ?3* ie. And that is all tb is to it. TEST MILLION DOLLARS. Fifth-It is this mania that reduces : to the standard of a miserable commert dividend. Men afflicted with this dise refuse to enter upon any work that d not pay in a commercial sense. The fi question they ask is, Will it pay? 11 a man to give money to ?ave the heath' He says: Will it pay? Does it pay? ask him how. "Well," he says, "h much money did you spend on the hea en last yearr i tell him $10,000,000. "H< many did you save?" I tell him so ma thousands. He says: "It don't pi They cost too much. They come 1 higlL They sre not worth it. Too mo money a head." This is the man w refuses to subscribe money to buy t new hearse, because he said he ne* had any. ase for tho old one, and he ga for that. The idea of a cominero dividend applied to life invariably j duces it to an absurdity. No work of love pays. Eliminate lo from life, and there is nothing left b .death. A workingman left his anvil a: watched by the bedside of his dyh wife. She was a little, withered, tir< woman, her face pinched and waa ai overwrought with long years of toil. ? was a great, broad shouldered, stroi limbed, muscular giant. He gave da and weeks and months to the tendere ministry of love by her bedale. He io his position, his place in the ranks of difficult trade in which to maintain hil sett. He ran the risk of being a tram but he never left her bedside till the en With streaming eyes he followed tl preacher to the door and asked if the: were any hope. He lost his wages f< months. He was brougfet to The verge < starvation until he had to accept tl charity of strangers. It did not pay. ?s work of love pays. But shall love cea; to minister to its loved one? Children Ho not pay. It does not pa to have children. They are a constar expense. They add no?hiag to the 22 come of the household white They ai children. Yet shall chlidren cease to t born? My boy has never paid a cen: He has done nothing but spend. He ha been a constant expense for doctor bills, nurse's bills, clothes, shoes, hat? He asked me for 3 cents as I went oe of the house last trip. He has cost m more than $1,000 in bills for doctors He grows more and more cxpensiv every day. He has never added* on dime to my income. He has been a con stant drain, a constant expense. But a I take him up into my arms and loo] into his face I would not sell bim ?o? the world piled with gold to the stars And yet he does not pay. -The truth i that life does not. consist in the abm* dance of things that a man may possess SHEAVES OF LOVE. Dr. George Shrady, ihe great phy? sician, left his rich patients and went 01 a vacation in the mountains ?or absolut! rest, ?? left orders that he should bf jcalled on no account; he would ans - ei call as a physician. While resting it the hammock at the country house fi little barefoot, ragged urchin came nj to where he was lying, accompanied bj a grandmother. The little fellow looked wistfully up at the great physician, whil< the grandmother explained: "I could no keep him away, doctor. He heard tha: you was here; that yon was the greatesi doctor in the world. He said that yoi could cure him and make him like th< other boys. I ' ->ld him he had no money and he could not como; that you would not le bothered with him. He said h< knowed you could curt? him, and hi would come. So here he is. sir." The doctor, moved by his simple faith, by his helplessness, by his poverty an? rags, hastened to prescribe for him. He gave him two weeks of personal atten? tion, and at the end of that time he was romping in the fields strong and well with the other boys. Thanksgiving day the doctor received by express a rude box, and when opened found in it a large turkey, on one leg of which was tied a card on which vraa scrawled: "Dear Doctor-H'-re is a big. fat turkey for you. lt's the best I could send, but I know he is young and tender, for I raised him from the egg myself." Signed by the boy's name. The doctor treasures this gift above all the gifts from million? aires, above all the treasures of money ever received. Life does not consist in the abundance of things which a man may possess. Sixth-It is this passion for money in itself and money at all hazards and money cruickly That brutalizes the hu? man, fur it man trades in the life? blood of Iiis fellow man. It is the most brutal war that the earth ever saw. Martial war is brutal enough, it is a horrible thing to butcher mon with swords and bayonets and guna and car. non*, but it i'. mora inexpressibly brutal to butcher men and women commer? cially and cast them into tho pit of hun? ger ami want and starvation and de? spair. It is kind to kill ono quickly. It is brutal to kill them by a Lingering death. ?f a man wrecks a train, tiny offer a preminm for his life. We say that lynching is UK> good for the man who won M wreck an express train loaded wiri* men, women and children. Butin this war for money men sneak into the Stock Exchange, and with a lie and a i trick and a subterfuge wreck a whole railroad corporation from end to end of the line, destroy a thousand homes, drag down into the ditch, into tho pit, into i the gr;;v? of a lingering death, thousands j cf women and children, and lie is crowned, forsooth, as a modem Napoleon : of finance instead ?f being hung to the nearest limb. MARTIAL WAK l? martial war soldiers are Mad to one another, even to enemies. There was a picture 'on exhibition in the National Academy of Design last year which rep? resented a scene on the field of battle be? tween the northern and southern armies, ?he Confederate soldier in hi* gray uni? form lay wounded high unto ueath with his broken arm folded under his body and the broken leg that made it impessi ble for him to move. He was crying for water. Near by was a wounded Federal soldier in blue uniform. He was strick? en to the earth with a terrible wound, but he was crawling over the rough ground extending his canteen in his strong ann as far as possible toward his wounded enemy. A little child wandered be? tween the two lines of battle in the late war., Instantly both lines ceased firing at the sight of that little bit of white clothing. Two men stepped forward from either of the ranks and seized the little one and led the child back to the motherin her cottage. And after the child was safe they returned to their ranks, and again the awful volleys of lead began their deadly work. In marmal war men do not kill women and children. They do not kill a wound? ed enemy. Even a Turk will not fire on a hospital But in this modern war for money maniacs fight Madmen do bat? tle. They kill women and children with? out mercy, and a wounded friend is the supreme opportunity of the crisis of bat? tle. They spring on his body and fear him limb fixm limb. Such a life is the abrogation of civilization, the d?niai of love, the denial of the basis of Christian? ity itself. No Christian civilization can exist while these forces are dominant. REV. THOMAS DIXON'S THIRD SERtStON ON THE SUBJECT. Black Friday Was and the Present Panie Is .the Result of Violating God's Revealed Law as to Trade-Can a Christian Suc? ceed In Wall Street? CAPE CHARLES, Va., July 16.-Rev. Thomas Dixon, Jr., preached the third sermon in" the series on "The Question of Money and the Gospel of Christ** in the Methodist church on Cobb's island today. The text chosen was, "The stars ra their courses fought against Sisera" (judges v, 20). In no way does mosey show its tre? mendous power so clearly as in the want of it. Man never fully realizes the power ! of money unt? he is absolutely without it. It is ?his shadow that oppresses in , these days our own great nation, it is the shadow of the panic It is the ghost of the commercial world that forever hannis even the prosperous. It is the skeleton in the closet of the cation whose j treasury groans withoouatless millions. The darkest days of the history of our nation have not been the days of war, j of great storm or of flood or of famine. ; They have been days of money panic. They have been days tn which thousands ? hung breathless over the brink of ruin, and bound up with them were countless other thousands whose lives were in- ? volved. The days of our real trial are these, days when the black shadows hang over I the money markets of our great cities; when cunning fiends lurk in every dark corner ready to spring upon the throat of the helpless and kill and destroy with- ' out mercy. This is speaking on a large scale of the problem which confronts the j poor in their daily life. Wall street in New York and State street in Boston and the centers of commerce in our great western cities have their Black Fridays, j but they come on rare occasions and at \ long intervals, and it isa blessed relief to the world that they do come thus rarely. But it is a sad fact that Black Friday is a day with which the great masses of our people only too fa- j amliar. One of the direst curses of our age is The want of money. I mean want. 1 do not mean a respectable poverty. 1 mean a want that cuts. One of the chief causes of the poverty of our age is un? questionably found in the results of the day of oarkness and panic in the finan? cial wor?d. This black Friday is not a thing that comes by chance. It is the evidence of a vital disease-a disease thai strikes to the very l*eart of the body politic. The old prophet told ??5 that j tho stars; in their courses fought against ? Sisera. Sisera was the captain of the hoste of Jabjn, the oppressor of Israel, s He encaieped ia the plains with his mag- j nifieeut army, preparing to make his: final assault." But the river rose and i overwhelmed bis chariots, and a woman . slew Sisera, driving a nail through his j sleeping head. The river did the work- j that is to ?av, the prophet would teach j us that the foret? of nature are in league with the eternal principles of truth asad Hideousness, and together they are working out the salvation of the world. Evil by its own mature exhausts and destroys itself. Good increases and must ultimately triumph. Its principle is germinal Individuals, principles, sys? tems that clash with truth and right, have gone down and must continue to go down. Let us lift high above our heads as a gleaming lantern these facts and explore the depths of this Black Friday of poverty, and we will find both the cause of our failures and the promise of something better. We touch the heart of this difficulty when we ask the question, Can a true Christian, as a Christian, be a successful business man of today? If not, ihen we will find in the clash of the principles of the modern commercial world with Christianity the true cause for the days of commercial darkness. Tu get at the truth of the matter we must have a basis of comparison. We ask therefore: First-What is it to be a true Chris? tian? Christianity means sacrifice. If you would understand a principio of Chris? tianity, you must look to the life*of Christ in the concrete. His lifo wa3 thrown away. It was lost. It was a dismal failure. Ho was a despised man of a despised nation. Ho neither sought or gained professional influence. He antagonize?! the ?>owcrs that were estab? lished. Ile failed to organize his follow? ers into a compact machine. The com? mon people heard him gladly, and yet ho did not seek to utilizo his power over ihem for his self aggrandizement. They pressed about him at the gates of the ! city. They tore off tho roofs of houser even that they might place their sick lie fore him. He fed them when they were hungry, and yet he so conducted himself that at the last they deserted him and cried. - Crucify him!" Ho laid up no money on the earth. He had no home. Fie exercised no immediate influence on literature. He formulated no system of philosophy. Ho did not write a book. He founded no family to perpetuate his authority or his name. He died a pre? mature and ignominious death. He lit? erally .'brew his life away. He lost it. There were no great men to attend his funeral. His very tomb was the loan o' charity. Vet. though his death was not mourned by tho great of earth, tho sun veiled Iiis face in tears and nature wept at his tomb. Ho died in ignominy, and yet Iiis legacy is glory, lie founded no ! family, and yet his name is the corner stone of tho family. Literature and philosophy he did not seek-they aro all j his today. The common people deserted j him, and ho is lifting the common people j from the depths to the heights, and now the eyes of humanity are on the une j world because they are guided by i finger of the Christ He sought : wealth-, but kings sud princes are b tteed in his name and count it honor, j threw his Ufe away ; but, marvelous tell, it wa? thrown away as the seed I thrown into the earth. The next question which natura must be Answered before we attain 1 truth is: iSecond^-What is ? succ?ssful busih man of today?' i The s??cessrui business ma? pi*" tdd has practically one principle. It is 1 beginning of his political economy* it toe end c his religion. It may summed up in one sentence: LOOK O FOR NO. 1! The science of politic economy is the science of accumulati money and accumulating it by all hi ards and by all methods. i?jsbasecf pure competition; it is based upon w; The law of war is the triumph of t strongest measured by brute' pow< Toss up a penny in a crowd of boys, ai they scramble for the money. T strongest, most brutal, is surest of sr cess. He whose methods are less scr pulous is the victim, This is the essen of the moderate commercial system. V fight one another. Our merchants c each other's throats. Not only do rm chants cut each other's throats, but rn? of different industries war one with a other. We have a beautiful theory th things will regulate themselves; th open and free competition is sure to 1 the salvation of the world. And y financial panics, glutted markets, a the daily incidents of the history of oi civilization. Somehow our free, reg lative theory has not worked and do not work. And our political cconomis bravely inform us that the hope of tl world is in war and pestilence. And v have been taught by men who claim 1 be rational that a pestilence that wi temove millions of human beings willi a good to the world in lessening the nun ber of people to be fed; that war is ben ficial in furnishing us a market incertai commodities and in destroying thee; parity of the race to propagate itself an use food. Our regulative theories are beautif u and yet the results are trusts and con binations, which are the negation of tl whole theory. Our system of competition is beaut fui as a theory, and yet the system mm answer for cheating and lying an swindling and stealing and crime an intemperance and suicide and despai These axe ?ts necessary, its inevitable, at comps l?r?fioents. When business success is to be achieve by chicanery, by iying, it becomes tb business of the head of the firm to tx come an expert swindler, a scientifi liar, and to train all his subordinates i the art of lying. This is one of the fir? principles of instruction practiced i: some of our great commercial establish ments. The clerk who is advanced i the man who can tell the biggest li with the straightest face and drive th hardest bargain with a customer. Th fundamental mottoes of such asysten are a mass of colossal lies. To-deelar that life is measured by dollars and cent is to stultify the very fundamentals o real life. A thief only iberieves that lif is measured by dollars and cents, au< the business man who seeks to attaii dollars and cents of themselves, for them selves, and to estimate them as valuabl? by the figures on their face, has placet himself unconsciously on the platform o the thief. Money, to be of any real value and t< touch the realm of real wealth, must b< righteously obtained. Tho richest anc best things ia life are those that do no pay in dollars anti cents. Love and no bili ty and honor and geiaesiositjr do noi pay in dollars and cents; therefore the) have no part in the science of moderr commence. The life of a Stanley whe explores ihe darkness of the world by iMs standard is a failure. The life of a Washington who would suffer in ?mngei and cold is necessarily a failure judged by such standards. Such is the contrast between a success? ful Christianity and successful business today. Titers cannot be a moment's questioning of the fact that the business of today is in conflict with eternal truth and righteousness. So much the worse for business. The stars in their courses fought against Sisera. The forces of nature are in league with the eternal forces of truth and right. The business w hich violates the fundamentals of right in the process of its developMtent must have of neces? sity ?ts Black Fridays, and the Black Fridays are the necessary developments of the clash with righteousness. These days of panic are the natural result of long continued violations of justice. If they did not come, law would cease to be law, Aod chaos would reign. The fact that they come is an indication that there ts a God of right and truth who is guid? ing above all the scenes of conflict and confusion. The man who violates truth and justice has thrown his puny body against the very stars of .heaven. He has thrown his prostrate form before God's great wheel of the universe, and he will be ground to powder. The nation that violates fundamental right must suffer, and suffer in the very ways in which it has wrought the violation. The Christian way of trade may not be an easy way; it is certainly not a pop? ular way today; it never has been. But Christianity is the mightiest power on earth today. It is the one power that dominates politics, trade, nations. It is the power that through the ages lias righted a thousand wrongs that seemed beyond remedy. Kingdoms, empires, so? cieties-apparently invincible-have per? ished at its t^uch. We stand upon the pinnacle of the nineteenth cen tnry and look back with increasing amazement at this procession of dead societies and dead peoples and dead nations who have died because they clashed with the eternal forces of truth and of righteousness. At times we have an apparent triumph of wrong. It is only apparent. It is but the beginning of the end. Men havo de? clared thnt it is impossible to exist in the business world and live on Christian principles. Men have declared that all men are liars in tho business world. A man said to me a short timvi ago that all business men are chronic and incurable liars. He spoke from the point of view of thc money market and the money broker. II" declared that men would take advantage of one another whenever they lind the opportunity. He declared that all of them would tell a He to make money; that honor and truth are not elements that are considered in the mod? ern business world. This assertion is entirely too broad when our friend would declare that all men are liars. From this point of view it is true, but then* is such a tiling as mirage. A man in the arctic seas looks out over the water and sees a ship ;i\> proach with her keel in the air. Ile can eeo the officer in command; he can see the vessel as it tacks in its course. Ev? erything is beyond question a living re? ality before him. And yet, as a matter of fact, it is owing to a condition of at? mosphere. It is not a n-ality on which he is gazing; it is an inverted picture of the real ship that below tho horizon in the distance. So tho vision of the modem ? business man as to right and tr itli i>. often obscure/i, because he draws his conclusion from what he sees in daily lifo about him, from what he touches. The way of Christianity is not the easi? est way apparently, but it is the easiest way m fch?'long ran. We suffer in pan? ics. We suffer in black pove? ty and de? spair and wretchednes? &nd crime and misery and intemperance-, because in our commercial world we Violate the funda? mental la ws of trhth and righteousness. Tc get back to the right is to remedy the evil. To bring tho commercial world into harmony with tfis principles of Christianity is at once tho ^nre for the present disease arid the guarantee that the f uture will be bright; not dark* If it is said that a Christian with his impossible ideals cannot exist if he at? tempts to enforce them in th? business W\vrld. let the answer unmistakable, 'that thc business of the Christian is to elie, is to" sacrifice. The block and the stake and tho tack a?d tho Ihumbscrew and the red hot plowshare-these have been his through the ages of the past. When Giristians could not live, they died. They considered it their business to -die. It ls the Christian's business to? day to die as much as it was in tho apos? tolic age, in the age of the heroes and the martyrs. Every ago must have its horoes and its martyrs. There is a call today for the Christian merchant who is will? ing to die rather than to do wrong, as there never was a call for the Christian soldier to march into the valley of death for the cause of Cliristian civilization. John Ruskin has most graphically and powerfully expressed this truth in his great essay on "The Roots of Honor." He shows that: The soldier's profession is to defend the nation. The pastor's to teach it. The physician's to keep it in health. Thc lawyer's to enforce justice^ The merchant's to provide for it. And the duty of all these men is on due occasion to die for it. On due occasion-namely: The soldier, rather than to leave his post in battle. The physician, rather, than to leave his post in plague. The pastor, rather than to teach false' hood. The lawyer, rather than to counte? nance injustice. The merchant-what is his due occa? sion of death? Well does Ruskin say it is the main question for the merchant as for all of us, for truly the man who does not know when to die does not know how to live. The difficulty in our world of commerce has been that men have not known how to die. They have fought one another to the death. They have fought the wounded as well as the strong. They have fought one another instead of righting their common enemies-hunger and cold-and tlje forces of nature that would destroy man. "He that would save his life shall lose it*' ?3*the message which Jesus brings to the world. It is the message which should be written in letters of fire across every-Stock Exchange in the hour of its panic. Is it utterly impossible today to be a practical Christian and a successful busi? ness man? Is the basis of business anti Christian? So much thc worse for busi? ness. We shall certainly not give up Christianity. We must ?imply recreate the business world and make it possible for a Christian to livo in it. And until it is thus recreated the curse of God, the God of truth and righteousness, will wither and blast and strike with destruc? tion. The God of the widow and of the orphan will have his days of reckoning. The God of the homeless and of the friendless and of the wretched and help? less will have his day oe reckoning and of wrath. It must come because his laws have been violated in the course of the daily life of our business world. The business that clashes with Christianity must go down. It clashes with the very .stars of heaven. Hear the prophetic voice of John Rus? kin again: "Any given accumulation of commer? cial wealth may be indicative on the one hand of faitliful industries, progressive energies and productive ingenuities, or on the other it may be indicative of mor? tal luxury, merciless tyranny, ruinous ohicane. Some treasures are heavy with human tears, as ill stored harvest with untimely ram, and some gold is brighter in sunshine 1 han it is in substance. "And these are not, observe, merely moral or pathetic attributes of riches which the seeker of riches may, if he chooses, despise. They are literally and sternly material attributes of riches, de? preciating a?ul exalting incalculably the monetary signification of the sum ia question. One mass of money is the out? come of action which has created-an? other of action which has annihilated ten times as much in the gathering of it. Such and such strong hands have been paralyzed, as if they had been numbed by nightshade; so many strong m?n'e cour? age broken; so many productive opera ations hindered-this and the other false direction given to labor and lying image of prosperity set up on Dura plains dug into seven times heated furnaces. "That which seems to be wealth may in verity be only the gilded index of far reaching ruin; a wrecker's handful of coin gleaned from the beach to which he has beguiled an argosy; a camp fol? lower's bundlo of rags unwTapped from the breasts of goodly soldiers dead; the purchase pieces of potter's fields, where- \ in shall be buried together the citizen and the stranger." Bucklen'K Arnica Salve, The Befit Salve in the world for Cuts, Bruises Sores. Ulcers, Salt Rheaoi. Fever Sores, Tetter, Cbappod Hands Chilblains,. Corns and all Skin Eruptions, and positively cures Piles, or no pny required- It is guaranteed to give per? fect satisfaction, or money refunded. "rice 25cents per box. For sale by Dr J. F. W. De Lorme Pai-a-sit-i-eide. Cures Itch in 30 minutes Price 50 cents. Sold hy J P\ W. DeLorme. June 28-4m When Baby was sick, w<? gave her Castorfs. When she wac a Child, she cried for (.'astoria. When she l?ecanie lUiss, sh?? clung to Castoria. When she hud Children, she ?javu Chem Castoria. BROWN'S IRON BITTERS Cures Dyspepsia, In? digestion & Debilityr Pimples A.VD Blotches ?RR EVIDENCE That the blood is wrong, and that nature is endeav? oring io th?su vjf the impurities. Nothing is so beneficial in assisting nature as Sniift's Specific (S. S. S.) Jt is a simple vegetable compound Is harmless to the most d?licate child, yet it forces the poison to thc surface and eliminates it from the blood. I contracted a severe case of blood poison that unfitted nie for business for four years. A few bottles of Swift's Specific (S. S. S.) cured nie. J. C. JONES, City Marshal, Fulton, Arkansas, Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases rmilei hoe. ?wiri bfj&ciFic Co.,Atlanta,Ga. Ripans Tabules nive thc blues. Ripans Tabules cure headache Ripans Tabules cure jaundice. * MENSTRUATION j w?Y& ;? woman of vigorous health passes 5 Wjftj??e ffjVr? without pain or dis- I onVforii.fj'?t when she approaches this \ ctfsis MONTHLY with a frail constitu- I tioft and feeble health she endangers \ botft frer-physical and mental powers. \ BRADFIELB'S FEMALE &*. REGULATOR j if taken a few days before tfre northly 1 sickness sets in and continued untill J nature performs her functiorna has no S equates a SPECIFIC hr PaiAftj^ Pro- 5 ruse-, Scanty St?fl?re&tti ?rtd lrr?g?fcr f MENSTRUATE j heft. Ve ? ? WOMAN " mailed free. I BRADFIELD REGULATOR CO., iUi?'nt?, fer. I /So?<i 6y ctZi Druggists* j . JOHNSON'S MAGNETIC OIL! instant Killer of Pain. Internal and External. Cures RHEUMATISM, NEURAL? GIA, Lame Back, Sprains, Bruise*. Swellings, Stiff Joints, COLIC and ?CRAMPS instantly. Cholera Mor? is, Croup.Diptberia, Sore Throat, EAD ACHE, as if by magic. THE M?RSE"BRAND g?*^ prepared for A. .??V.n0t. nMre?f Stock, Double Strength, the mort Powerful and PenetrarmgLinimeDtfbr Man or Beast ki eiiatenc*. li*rg?$i size 75c, 60c size 4Uc JOHNSON'S ORIENTAL ?OAP. Medicated ?Sd Toilet. Th? Great Skin Cure and Face Beautifier. Lad ie? frill jjnd it the most delicate ana highly perfumed Tnliej *oap on the market. It is absolutely pur?. Makes the skin soft and velvety and restores the lost com flexion; is a luxury for the ?ath for Infants, t alays itching, cleanses the B?alb And promotes thegruwtbof hair. Pri?e 2?e. Forealefcy DR. A. J. CHINA, SUMTER, S.C, ~ NEW MARBLE WORKS, COMMANDER & RICHARDSON, LIBERTY STREET, SUMTER, S. C. WE HAYE FORMED A CO-PA RTNERSBIP For the purpose of working Marble and Granite, manufacturing And doing a Gentral Business in that lise. A complete workshop has been Stied up on LIBERTY STREET, NEARPOST OFFICE And we are now ready to execute with promptness all orders consigned to us. Satis? faction guaranteed. Obtain our price before placing an order elsewhere. W. H. COMMANDER, G. B. RICHARDSON. Jone 16. ANNOUNCEMENT. ROBERT T. CARR, Desires to inform the public that he is fully equipped and prepared to do TIN ROOFING. PLUMBING, REPAIRING PUMPS, and anything usually done in a first-class plumbing and tinning shop. -Also SETTING FANCY WOOD AND MARBLE MANTLES, TILE HEARTHS, FACINGS and GRATES. Makes a specialty of putting in Electric Bells, Annunciators, Speaking Tubes, kc. ROBT. T. CARR. Shop at J. B. Carr's Mill. Communications left at Walsh k Co's Shoe Store or through post office will receive prompt attention. Oct 26-o JOS. F. RHAME. WM. C. DAVIS. IIHAME & DAVIS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, MANNING, S. C. Attend to business in any part of the State practice in ?. S. Coarte. Sept. 21- x Dil, I iii UMBU, DENTIST Office OVER BROWN k IBROWN'S STORE, Entrance on Main Street Between Brown & Brown and Durant k Son. OFFICE HOURS: . 5 to 1.30; 2 to 5 o'dock. AfriJ 2-9. Manufacturing Jeweler, Matchmaker and Engraver, At C. E. Stubbs' office, MAIN STREET, SUMTER. S. C. Livery, M asi Dray Stable WE desire to state that we are now better prepared than ever to furnish first class Livery and Drays. Thankful for patronage in the past, which has exceeded our most sanguine expectations, we hope by close personal attention t? merit a continuance of same. Hauling of all kinds solicited. Your's to please, W. J. HERRON & CO. ATTENTION, COTTON GINNERS! IAM PREPARED, with the best appli? ances so far known to renovate Gin Saw Teeth, Stripped and Broken Teeth cut in with stamp and die, Short and Misshaped Teeth gummed out and shaped with reciprocating file glimmer, and all teeth pointed with Duplex filer, making the round or needle point. Eleven years experience warrants me in gua inn teeing satisfaction. Telegraph and P. 0. address, St. Charles, Sumter Countr, S. C. J. MERRICK REID. May 17._ Ire You any Gooil at Pnzzles ? The genius who invented the "Fifteen" Puzzle, 'T.gs in Glover" and many others bas invented a brand new one, which is going to be the greatest on record. There is fun, instruction and entertainment in it. The old and learned will find as much mystery in it as the young and unsophisti? cated. This great puzzle is the property of the New York Press Club, for whom it was invented by Samuel Lovd, the great puzzle? ist to be sold for the benefit of the movement to erect a great home (or newspaper woikers in New York. Generous friends have given $25,000 in prizes for the successful puzzle solvers. Ten Cents sent to "Press Club Building and Charity Fund," Temple Court, New York City wiil get you the new mystery by return mail. FlItST\?ffi JOB WORK AT BOTTOM PRICES? WATCH ILM AN ?NB SOUTHON JOB OFFICE SUMTER, S. C ! for Infants and Children. I recommend it as superior to any prescription knows to me." II. A. Aacnz?; 31. D.', Ill S? Oxford Ct.: Drcokb'tf. N. T. "Thc use of 'Castoria ii *o universal and i:.> merits so well knovrn that it seems a tfrork cf supererogation 'to endorse it. Ferr are the intelligent families who Co not keep Castoria v;:hia eaiy reach.'" CAULOS J). T>.. i>ewr York City THE CKNTAVR COMPAQ-, 77 MI-BRAT STREET, SEW Tons Crrr. Cfcsit??i? cures Colic, Constipation, SO?.^ Stomach, Diarrhoea, Eructation, Xii is "Worms, gives sleep, and promote SP gestion, V/ithout injurious medication. "For several years I have recommended your 'Castoria,-' and slu.ll always continue to do so as it has i*v?mably produoid- beneficial resi-'its; ' ' EnwDJ F. PARDEE, ll. D", 123th Street and 7th Ave., New York aty; Typewriter Headquarters. J. W. CRIBBES & CO., 101 MAIN STREET, COLUMBIA, S. C; SOUTH CAROLINA AGENTS FOB THE "BENSMME," The fwentUth Century Typewriter. W? fill orders promptly for alf kinds of Typ?triter novelties and supplies foi? all MachiDe8 and for Mimeographs and Neostyles. The DENSMORE is the latest achievement of the frensmore family, by wbocrf its predecessor, the Remington, was developed. It has Sied type-bar hanger^ and non-vibrating--two frobatfl ?rhich insure lasting alignment. It? is the mostf modern and pr?efical machine on the marget. The BE?SMORE is used by the famous Carnegie Steel Company, the Centrai. Railroad and Banking Company of Georgia, the Rapid Addressing Company of New York, which exhibits 16 Densmores in operation at the World's Fair, the' New York Central and Sudson ltiver Railroad, ?. G. Dun & Co's Mercantile' Agency. Some of the users of the Densninre in Columbia, are : The Evening Journal, Jone? & Mason's Business College and Typewriting Schooi, Richmond and fran vi il* Railroad, Master of Trains' Office, Judge S? W. Melton, Union Central L'fo lusurtfne'e Company, benedict Institute anrf others. We can sttpply dealers at good discount: (pill Ionic ? KK-^M r'oiCHILLS,MALAGA % 5jpl?I?O 8-BILIOUSNESS, ft (f?m ?p5?k.As pleasant as]*m?n Syrup. t\ 4^ T"7 H HTTP'S W4** Y*'&\ that tlie Tastele?s Chill Tonic -which hasf ? 1 L Rfl I Rti ? ? L I ? ?Pven suc^ ttEiverTd'l- satisfaction, and ri I Ssl t IV I ?\ Which you hear your neighbors talking; fi IL J 11 Lil ? i JLJL? i L about IS GROVE'S. TO get the original f <1 ^ Y and genuine Tasteless Chill Tonic, aK ?rays ask for GROVE'S, and don't accept cheap, untried substitutes, claiming tO~ befaast as good. Grove's Tasteless ChillTonic holds full 6 oz ;'. and'contains ? doses, while many of the new, untried tasteless tonics only hold*?fcr 6zs. andr contains but twenty-fou. to thirty doses. Grove's Tonic is as large as any dofc lax took and retails for 50 cents. Manufactured by PABST MEDICINE COMPANY, St. Louis, ?Io. Sold by all Druggists J. S. HUG-HSON & CO. "Tl SON BO ! WELL! NOW!! Whether the Sun do move, or do noe move, we are not here to discuss-but will leave that to our more learned friends-but we a're here to say that we have a LINE OF SHOES that must move, and that at once. And if PRICES and QUALITY will move them, then they will be walking-and that at once. We have a Gents' Satin Finish Shoe, in Bals and Congress, for $2.00, that can't be sold by any other house for leas than $2.50 to $3.00. It's just the finest in town. Our Ladies' Button Shoes at $1,25, Arc Beauties. Just come in and examine these Shoes before5 you buv^ They are ali guaranteed to be "ALL SOLID* LEATHER," or money returned. Buy your shoes from us and save from 50 cents to ?1.00 per pair. EINGMAN & CO. Glenn Springs Water, Is unsurpassed and invalids find sure and ?peedy relief by ita Dyspepsia, Liver Complaint, Chronic Hepatitis, Jaundice, Torpor of Liver and General Debility, following upon Malarial Diseases, Dropsy, Diarrhoea, Dysentery, Constipation, Hcmorro?d,s Uterine, Renal and Cystic Diseases, II oe ma tur ia, Rheumatism, Oatamenial Derangement, and OTHER FEMALE COMPLAINTS, Highly recommended by the medical profession. For circulars containing certificates, etc., apply to Paul Simpson, GLENN SPRINGS, S. C. -0 -FOR SALE BY Dr. A. J. China, Dr. McEagen, J. S. Bugbson & Co., J. F. W. Debora? and W. R. Delgar, Jr.