The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, July 26, 1893, Image 4
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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.
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-FOR SALE BY
Dr. A. J. China, Dr. McEagen, J. S. Bugbson & Co., J. F. W. Debora?
and W. R. Delgar, Jr.