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FAIREST OP THE FAIR REV. DFL TALMAG E'S SERMON AT THE BROOKLYN TABERNACLE. The Eloquent Pastor DUcus**-* tb? Attri? butes of Christ-The Great, the ?imxt. ?ti* lair, the Sublime-A Charade rut ic Sm. mon-F rilen From a Thousand Vuleee. BROOKLYN, April 33.-Mrs. Prentiss* hymn, "Mar? Love to Thee, O Christ. " was never more effectively rendered thai? this morning hy the thousands of voices in the Brooklyn Tabernacle, lad on by organ and cornet, while by new vocabu? lary and fresh imagery Dr. Ta Imago presented the gospel. The subject of the sermon was "Fairest of the Fair.A tbe text chosen being Solomon's Song v. 16, ? ?He is altogether lovely. ' ' The human race lias' daring centuries been improving. For awhile i t deflected and degenerated, and from all I can read for ages the whole tendency was toward barbarism, but under the ever widening and deepening influence of Christianity ~ the tendency is now m the upward di? rection. The physical appearance of the human race is 75 per cent more attract? ive than in the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. From the pic . tures cai canvas and the faces and forms in sculpture of those who were consid? ered the grand looiing men and the at? tractive women of 290 years ago I con? clude the superiority of the men and women of our time. Such looking peo? ple of the past centuries as painting and sculpture have presented as fine speci? mens of beauty and dignity would be in our time considered deformity and re? pulsiveness complete. The fact that many men and women in antediluvian times were 8 and 10 feet high tended to make the human race obnoxious rather than winning. Such portable mountains of human flesh did not add to the charms of the world. . The Physical Christ. But in no climate and in no age did there ever appear any one who in phys? ical attractiveness could be compared to bim whom my text celebrates thou? sands of years before he put his infan? tile foot on the hill back of Bethlehem. He was and is altogether lovely. The physical appearance of Christ is, for the most part,, an artistic guess. Some writ? ers declare him to have been a brunette or dark complexioned, and others a blond ar light complexioned. St John of Damascus, writing 1,100 years ago? and so much nearer than ourselves to tile tim? of Christ, an? hence with more likelihood of accurate tradition, repre? sents him with, beard black, and curry eyebrows joineoVtogether, and *ye?k)w complexi?n, and tong lingera like his mother." An author, writing 1,500 years ago, represents Christ as a blond: '"Hishair is the color of wine and golden at the root, straight and without lus? ter; but from tile level of the ears, curl? ing and glossy, and divided down the center after the fashion of the Naza? renes. His forehead is even and smooth, lom face without blemish and enhanced by a tempered bloom, his countenance :iagenuous and kind. Nose and mouth are in no way faulty. K's Txard is full of the samo color as his hair and forked fm foxm; his eyes blue and extremely brilliant" My opinion is, it was a Jewish face. His mother was a Jewess, and there is ao womanliood on earth more beautiful. than Jewish, womanhood. Ams that he lived so long rjefbre the daguerrean and photographic arts were bern, or we might have known his exact features. I know that sculpture and painting were born long before Christ, and they might hove transferred from olden times to cur times the forehead, the nostril, the eye, the lips cf our Lord. Phidias, the sculptor, put down ins chisel of enchantment 500 years before Christ came. Why did not some one take up that chisel and give us the side face or full face of our Lord? Polygno tus, the painter, put down his pencil 400 years before Christ Why did not some one take it up and give us at least the eye of dir Lord-r4he eye, that sov? ereign of^haface? Dfanj-sius, the litera? ry artist who saw at Heliopolis, Egypt, the strange darkening of the heavens at the time of Christ's crucifixion near Je? rusalem, and not knowing what it was, but describing it as a peculiar eclipse of the sun, and saying, "Either the Dei? ty suffers or sympathizes with some suf? ferer,'1 that Dionysius might have put ; his pen to the Work and drawn the por trait of our Lord But, no; the fine arts j were busy perpetuating the form and j appearance of the world's favorites only, ! and not the form and appearance of the peasantry, among whom Christ appear? ed. Portraits of Christ. It was not until the fifteenth century, ? or until more than 1,400 years after { Christ, that talented painters attempted by pencil to give us the idea of Christ's face. The pictures before that time were so offensive that the council at Constan? tinople forbade their exhibition. But Leonardo da Vinci, in the fifteenth cen? tury, presented Christ's face on two can? vases, yet the one was a repulsive face and tiie other an effeminate face. Raph? ael's face of Christ is a weak face. Albert Durer's face of Christ was a sav? age face. Titian's face of Christ is an expressionless face. The mightiest art? ista, either with pencil or chisel, have made signal failure in attempting to give the forehead, the cheek, the eyes, tiie nostril, the mouth of our blessed Lord. But about his face I can tell you some? thing positive and beyond controversy. I am sure it was a soulful face. The face is only the curtain cf tiie soul It was impossible that a disposition like Christ's should not have demonstrated itself in his physiognomy. Kindness as an occasional impulse may give no illu? mination to the features, but kindness as the lifelong, dominant habit will produce attractiveness of countenance as certainly as the shining of the sun produces flowers. Children are afraid of ; a scowling or hard visaged man. They cry out if he proposes to take them If he try to caress them, he evokes a slap rather than a kiss. All mothers know how hard it is to get their children to go to. a man or woman of forbidding ap peaxuuca I3ut no sooner did Christ pem in the domestic group than ti was an infantile excitement, and youngster? began to struggle to get of their mothers' arms. They could hold the children back. "Staud h with those children !" scolded som* %.ihe disciples. Perhaps the little c may have been playing in the dirt, i . their faces may not have bean clean, they may not have been well clad, or disciples may have thought Christ's iigion was a religion chiefly for folks. Bot Christ made the infantile citement still livelier by his saying t he liked children better than grown p pie, declaring, "Except ye become a little child ye cannot enter into kingdom of God. * ' Alas for those people who do not 1 children! They had better stay ont I heaven, for the place is full of the That, I think, is one reason why 1 vast majority of the human race die infancy. Christ is so fond of childi that he takes them to himself before 1 world has time to despoil and hare1 them, and so they are now at the w. dows of the palace and on the doors t< sold playing on the green. - Sometin Matthew or Mark or Luke tells a ste of Christ, and only one tells it, 1 Matthew, Mark and Luke all join that picture of .Christ girdled by ch dren, and I know by what occurred that time that Christ bad a face full geniality. Habits of Christy Not only was Christ altogether love in bis countenance, but lovely in 1 habits. I know, without being told, th the Lord who made the rivers, and 1 ai - and oceans was cleanly in hisUtppei ance. He disliked the disease of leprc not only because it was distressing, h because it was not clean, and his eura ti words were: "I wilL Be thon clean He declared himself in favor of thc 0001 washing and opposed to super cial washing when he denounced t hypocrites for making clean only "t outside of the platter, " and he appian his disciples by saying. "Now are ; dean," and giving directions to thc who fasted, among other things, he say "Wash thy face," and to a blind nu I whom be was doctoring, "Go, wash the pool of Siloam," and he bim? : actually washed the disciples' feet, suppose not only to demonstrate h own humility, but probably their fe .needed to be washed. Tbe fact is, the Lord was a gre i friend of water. I know that from tl j fact that most of the world is wate But when I find Christ ?a such constat commendation of water I know he w; personally neat, although he mingle much among very rough populations ax took such long journeys on dusty nig) ways! He wore bis hair long, aecordii to the custom of his land and time, br neither trouble nor old age bad thinnc or injured bis locks, which were nev* worn shaggy or unkempt Tea, all b habits of personal appearance wei lovely. Sobriety was also an established bab of bis life In addition to the water, I (bank the juice of the grape. When i a wedding party this beverage gave om he made gallons on gallons of grap juice, but it was as unlike what th world makes in our time as health j different from disease and as cali pulses are different from the paroxysm of delirium tremens. There was n strychnine in that beverage or logwoo or nuz v?mica. ..The tipplers and th sots who now quote the winexaaking i Cana of Galilee? as an excuse for th fiery and damning beverages of the nine teenth century forget that the wine a the New Testament wedding had tw characteristics-the one that the Lon made it and the other that it was mad ont of water. Buy all you can of tba kind and drink it at least three times ; day and send a barrel of it round tom: cellar. You cannot make me believe that th? blessed Christ who went up and dowi bealing the sick would create for mai that style of drink which is the caus< of disease more than all otber cause; combined, or that he who calmed.- th? maniacs into their right mind woulc create -that style -of? drink whiebfdoes more than anything else * to lill iiisaiK asylums, or that be who was sotie?pfu] to the poor would make a style of drink that crowds the earth with pauperism, or that be who came to save the nations from sin would create a liquor that is the source of most of the crime that now stuffs the penitentiaries. A lovely sobriety was written all over his face, from the hair line of the forehead to the bottom.of the bearded.chin. Christ the Physician. Domesticity was also his habit. Though too poor to have a home of his own, he went ont to spend the night at Bethany, two or three miles' walk from Jerusalem, and over a rough and hilly road that made it equal to six or seven ordinary miles, every morning and night going to and fro. I would rather walk from here to Central park, or walk from Edinburgh to Arthur's Seat, or in Lon? don clear around Hyde park, than to walk that road that Christ walked twice a day from, Jerusalem to Bethany. But he liked the quietude of home life, and he was lovely in his domesticity. How he enjoyed handing over the res? urrected boy to his mother, and the res? urrected girl to her father, and recon? structing homesteads which disease or death was breaking up! As the song "Home, Sweet Home" was written by a man who at that time had no home, so I think the homelessness of Christ added to his appreciation of domesticity. Furthermore, he was lovely in his sympathies. Now, dropsy is a most dis? tressful complaint It inflames and swells and tortures any limb or physical organ it touches. As soon as a case of that kind is submitted to Christ he, without^any use of diaphoretics, com? mands its cure. And what an eye doc? tor be waa for opening the long closed gates of sight to the blue of the sky, and the yellow of the flower, and the emerald of the grass! What a Christ he was for cooling fevers without so much as a spoonful of febrifuge, and straight? ening crooked backs without any pang of surgery, and standing whole choirs of music along the silent galleries of a deaf ear^ and giving healthful nervous system to cataleptics! Sympathy did not give them stoical advice 01 losophize about the science of griel sat down and cried with them. It is spoken of as the shortest in the Bible, but to me it is abou longest and grandest, "Jesus w< Ah, many of us fcnow the mean! that! When we were in great tro some one came in with voluble cou tion and quoted the Scripture in z of heartless way and did not help alL But after awhile some one else < in, and without saying a word sat < and burst into a flood of tears al sight of our woe, and somehow it 3 ed us right away. .4 Jesus wept. * ' see, it was a deeply attached house! that of Mary and Martha and Lazj The father and mother were dead, the girls depended on their broi Lazaros bad said to them: 'Now, ]M now, Martha, stop your worrying. I take care of you. I will be to you father and mother. My arm is str Girls, you can depend on me!" Comfort of Tears. But now Lazarus was sick-yea, '. ams was dead. All broken up, the ters sit disconsolate, and there is a ki at the door. "Come in, " says Mai "Come in," says Mary. Christ ente and he just broke down. It was too xx for bim. He had been so often an kindly entertained in that home be sickness and death devastated it tba choked up and sobbed aloud, and tears trickled down the sad face of sympathetic Christ "Jesus we] Why do yon not try that mode of h ing? You say, "I am a man of words," or "I am a woman of words. " Why, you dear soul, words not necessary. Imitate your Lord go to those afflicted homes and cry v them John Murphy! Well, you did know him. Once, when I was in g bereavement, he came to my hoi Kind ministers of the gospel had c< and talked beautifully and prayed v us and did all they could to cons But John Murphy, one of the best trie I ever bad, a big souled, glorious Ir man, came in and looked into my fi put out bis broad, strong band and s not a word, but sat down and cried vt us. I am not enough of a philosophe] say bow it was or why it was, but s eft bow from door to door and from fl to ceiling the room was filled with all pervading comfort "Jesus wept I think that is what makes Cm such a popular Christ There are many who want sympathy. Miss Fis the famous Nestorian m?ssioiiary, \ in the chapel one day talking to heathen, and she was in very poor bea and so weak she sat upon a mat wi she talked and felt the need of soi thing to lean against, when she fell woman's form at her back and heart woman's voice saying, "Lean on mc She leaned a little, but did net want be too cumbersome, when the woma voice said, "Lean hard; if you love n lean hard." And that makes Christ so lovely. ! wants all the sick and troubled a weary to lean against bim, and he sa; "Lean hard; if you love me, lean bard Aye, he is close by with his sympathi io help. Hedley Vicars, the famous s< dier and Christian of the Crimean wi died because when be was wounded 1 regiment was too far off from th? te of supplies. He was not mortally woun ed, and if the surgeons could only ha got at the bandages and the medicin be would have recovered. So much human sympathy and hopefulness com too late. But Christ is always close 1 if we want him, and has all the med cines ready, and has eternal life for 8 who ask for it. Sympathy! A Sublime Self Sacrifice. Aye, be was lovely in his doctrine Self sacrifice or the relief of the suffe ing of others by our own suffering. ? was the only physician that ever pr* posed to cure his patients by taking the: disorders. Self sacrifice I And what di he not give up for others? The best cl mate in the universe, the air of heavei for the wintry weather of Palestine, scepter of unlimited dominion for prisoner's box in an earthly courtroon: a flashing tiara for a crown of stingin brambles, a palace for a cattle pen, throne for a cross. Seif sacrifice I Wha is more lovely? Mothers dying for thei children down with scarlet fever, rail road engineers going down througJ the open drawbridge to save the train firemen scorched to death trying to helj some one down the ladder from tb fourth story of the consuming house All these put together only faint am insufficient similes by which to illustrate the grander, mightier, farther reaching self sacrifice of the "altogether lovely. ' Do you wonder that the story of hi! self sacrifice has led hundreds of thou sands to die for him? In one series oj persecutions over 200,000 were put t< death for Christ's sake For him Blan? dina was tied to a post and wild beasti were let out upon her, and when life continued after the attack of tooth and paw she was put in a net, and that net containing her was thrown to a wild bull that tossed her with its horns till life was extinct All for Christ ! Hugue? nots dying for Christ! Albigenses dying for Christ! The Vaudois dying for Christ! Smithfield fires endured for Christ! The bones of martyrs, if distrib? uted, would make a path of moldering life all around the earth. The loveliness of the Saviour's sacrifice has inspired all the heroisms and all the martyr? doms of subsequent centones. Christ has had mere men and women die for him than all the other inhabitants of all the ages have had die for them Furthermore, he was lovely in his sermons. He knew when to begin, when to stop and just what to say. The long? est sermon he ever preached, so far as the Bible reports him-namely, the ser? mon on the mount was about 16 min? utes in delivery-at the ordinary rate of speech. His longest prayer reported, commonly called "The Lord's Prayer," was about half a minute. Time them by your own watch, and you will find my estimate accurate, by which I do not mean to say that sermons ought to be only 16 minutes long and prayers only half a minute long. Christ had such infinite power of compression that he could put enough into his 16 minute sermon and his half minute prayer to j keep all the following ages busy thought and action. No one but a Ck could afford to pray or preach as si as that, but he meant to teach us cc pression. Christ's Sermons. At Selma, Ala., the other day 11 shown a cotton press by which cot was put in such shape that it occup in transportation only one car wh three cars were formerly necessary, i one ship where three ships had been quired, and I imagine that we all m to compress our sermons and our pray into smaller spaces. And his sermons were so lovely sentiment and practicality and simp] ity and illustration. The light of a c die, the crystal of the salt*, the cluck a hen for her chickens, the hypocrit dolorous physiognomy, the moth in 1 clothes closet, the black wing of a ravi the snowbank of white lilies, our . treme botheration about tiie splinter imperfection in some one else's char ter, the swine fed on the pearls, wol dramatizing sheep, and the perorati made up of a cyclone in which you h the crash of a tumbling house un wis* constructed. No technicalities, no sp] ting of hairs between north and nor west side, no dogmatics, but a gr? Christly throb of helpfulness. I do J wonder at the record which sa; "When he "was come down.from i mountain, great multitudes follow him " They had but one fault to fi with his sermon. It was too short G help all of us in Christian work to j down off our stilts and realize there only one thing we have to do-there the great wound of the world's sin a sorrow, and here is the great heali plaster of the gospel. What you an< want to do is to put the plaster on t wound All sufficient is this gospel if . is only applied A minister preachi to an audience of sailors concerning t ruin by sin and the rescue by the gos] accommodated himself to sailors' v< nacular and said, "This plank bears Many years after this preacher vv called to see a dying sailor and ask him about his hope and got the sugge ive reply, "This plank bears.'' An Appeal For Love, Yea, Christ was lovely in bis chi life's work. There were a thousai things for him to do, but his great wo was to get our shipwrecked world o of the breakers. That he came to do, a that he did, and he did it in three yeal He took 30 years to prepare for th three years' activity. From 13 to: years of age we hear nothing about hil That .intervening 18 years I think ] was in Ihujta. But he came back to Pi estine and crowded everything into thr years-three winters, three spring three summers, three autumns. Our li is short, but would God we might s how much we could do in three yeai Concentration! Intensification! Thr years of kind words! Three years of li i ing for others ! Three years of self saci rice! Let us try it Aye, Christ was lovely in his demis I He had a right that last hour to deal i j anathematization. Never had any oi been so meanly treated Cradle of stra among goats and camels-that was tl j world's reception of him! Rocky clif with hammers pounding spikes throng i tortured nerves-that was the world ! farewell salutation! The slaughter* j that scene sometimes hides the lovel I ness of the sufferer. Under the satur; I tion of tears and blood we sometime : fail to see the sweetest face of earth an I heaven. Altogether lovely! Can colder j criticism find an unkind word he ev* spoke, or an unkind action that he ev? performed, or an unkind thought that h ! ever harbored? What a marvel it is $hat all the ns tiona of earth do not rise up in rapture of affection for him! I must say it hex j and now. I lift my right hand in solem attestation. I love him, and the grief c my life is that I do not love him more Is it an impertinence for me to ask, D j you, my hearer-you, my reader, lov him? Has he become a part of your na ture? Have you committed your (milora j on earth into his keeping, as your chi] dren in heaven are already in his bosom Has he done enough to win your conti dence? Can you trust him, living an< dying and forever? Is your back or you face toward him? Would you like t? have his hand to guide you, his migh to protect you, his grace to comfort you his sufferings to atone for you, his arm to welcome you, his love to encircle you his heaven to crown you? A Grand Thought. ; Oh, that we might all have something of the great German reformer's love fo: this Christ which led him to say, "If anj one knocks at the door of my breast am says, 'Who lives there?' my reply is, 'Jesus Christ lives here, not Martii Luther. ' ' ' Will it not be grand if, whei we get through this short and ruggec road of life, we can go right up into his presence and live with him world with? out end? j And if, entering the gate of that heav? enly city, we should be so overwhelmed with our unworthiness on the one side, and the supernal splendor on the othei side, we get a little bewildered and ! should for a few moments be lost on the ! streets of gold and among the burnished temples and the sapphire thrones, there would be plenty to show us the way and i take us out of our joyful bewilderment, j and perhaps the woman of Nain would I say, "Come, let me take you to the I Christ who raised my only boy to life. " ! And Martha would say, "Come, let me ' take you to the Christ who brought up I my brother Lazarus from the tomb." And one of the disciples would say, "Come, and let me take you to the I Christ who saved our sinking ship in the hurricane on Gennesaret" And Paul would say, "Come, and let me lead you to the Christ for whom I died to Ostia." And wHolc groups of martyrs would say, "Come, let us show you the Christ for whom we rattled the chain and waded the floods and dared the fires. " And our own glo? rified kindred would flock around us, saying, "We have been waiting a good while for you, but before we talk over old times, and we tell you of what we have enjoyed since we have been here, and you tell us of what you have suffer? ed since we parted, come, come and let us show you the greatest sight in all the nlace, the most resplendent throne, and upon it the mightiest conqueror, tile exaltation of heaven, the theme of the immortals, the altogether great, the al? together good, the altogether fair, the altogether lovely!" Well, the delightful morn will come When my dear Lord will bring me home. And I shall see his face. Then, with my Saviour, Brother, Friend* A blest eternity I'll spend. Triumphant in his grace. Atlantic Coast Line. NORTH-EASTERN R. R. OP S. C. CONDENSED SCHEDLIE, TRAINS GOING SOUTH. Dated Jan| No |No. 35|No. 61|No. 23|No.53 ll, 1894.1 f501 * I * * * Le FI'nee " Kingst. Ar Lanes Le Lanes. Ar. Ch'n. A. M. 6 35 9 42 A. M. A. M. *3 37 4 5?. 4 52 6 50 A M. A. M. *: 5 8 58 9 20 9 20 il 20 A. M. P M. ?7 25 8 37 9 00 9 00 ll 00 P.M. P. M * 7 05 8 45 P. M TRAINS GOING NORTH. No. (No. 78jNo. 60 f500 I * I * No. 14|No. 52 * r * Le. Ch'n Ar Lanes. Le Lanes. " Kiogst Ar Fl'no P. M. 8 41 ll 39 P. M. A.M. * 3 35 '5 30 5 30 5 52 7 10 A. M. P.M. *5 00 7 00 7 05 7 25 8 50 P. M. P. M. ?3 30 5 29 5 29 5 45 6 45 P. M. A. M. *7 00 8 35 A. M * Daily. t New York and Florida Special, carrying only first-class passengers holding Pullman accommodations-Daily except Sunday. No. 52 runs through to Columbia ria Central R R. of S. C. Train Nos. 500, 78 and 14 run via Wilson and. Fayetteville-Short. Line-and. make close connection for all points North. J. R. KENLY, :, jg J. T. DIVINE, Gen'1 Manager, ; V Gen'ISup't. T. M. EMERSON, Traffic Manager. "OLD RELIABLE" LINE. South Carolina Railway. PASSENGER DEPARTMENT. In effect April 8, 1894. SCHEDULE. LT Charleston, 7 15am *' Summerville, 7 52 a m " Prevails, 8 28 a m " Branch Til le, 9 10am " Bamberg, 9 53 a m " Denmark 10 08 a m " Blackville 10 25 a m "Aiken 1127am Ar Augusta 12 15 p m LT Augusta 6 30 a m " Alkea 7 14 a m " Blackville 8 10 a m " Denmark 8 25 a m " Bamberg 8 39 a m " Branchville 9 20 a m " Pregna'la 10 05 a m " Summerville 10 45 a m Ar Cb ar les ten ll 30 a m 5 30 p m 6 15 p m 6 58 p m 7 42 p m 8 28 p m 8 42 p m 8 58 pm 10 00 p m 10 45 p m 3 40 p m 4 27 p m 5 28 p m 5 44 p m 5 ?8 p m 6 25 p m 7 28 p m 8 05 p m 8 45pm LT Charleston " Summerville " Orangeburg " Ringville Ar Columbia LT Columbia 1 Ringville 1 Orangeburg Iv?? Sommerville Ar Charleston 7 15 a m 7 52 a m 9 46 a m 10 32 a m 11 15 a m 4 20 p m 3 05 p m 5 56 p m 3 05 pja 8 45 p m 5 30 p m 6 05 p m 8 32 p m 9 20 p m 10 10 p m 6 50 a m 7 57 a m 8 30 a m 10 45 a m 11 30 a m DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY. LT Colombia LT Ringville Ar Camden LT Camden Ar Ringville Ar Columbia 8 35 a m 9 35 a m 12 50 p m 2 30 p m 5 15 p m 6 15 p m TbroQgb sleeper on train leaving Charles? ton 5 30 p rn, for Atlanta. Train leaving Charleston at 7.15 p. m. bas connections for Charlotte, Raleigh, and Wilmington, ria C. S. & N. R. R. Connec? tion made from points on the C. S. & N. R. R. for Atlanta and tbe west. Through trains between Charleston and Walhalla, leaving Charleston 7 15 a m, and arriving at Charleston at 8 45 p m. For further information apply to agents, or E. P. WARING, Gen' 1 Pass.'Agent, Charleston, S. C. J. M. TURNER, Superintendant. C. M. WARD, General Manager. Atlantic Coast Line WILMINGTON, COLUMBIA AND AUGUSTA R. R. CONDENSED SCHEDULE. TRAINS GOING SOUTH. "Dated Dec 24. 1893. |No. 55|No. 58| L've Wilmington. Leave Marion. Arrive Florence..? Leave Florence. Ar've Sumter... Leave Sumter. Ar've Columbia. N J. 52 runs through from Charleston via Central R ii. leaving Lane 8:44 A. M., Man nine 9;20. A. M._ _TRAINS GOING NORTH._ |No. 51|No. 53j Leave Colombia. Ar've Sumter. Leave SK?ter. Arrive Florence. Laave Flereace. Leave Marion., Arr. Wilmington... ?Daily. -f?t?Uj except Sunday. No. 53 runs through to Charleston, S. C., rit. Central R. R., arriving Manning 6:15 P. M., Lanes 7:00 P. M., Char leif on 8.45 P. M. Trains on Manchester ? Augusta R. R. leave Sumter daily except Sunday, 10:50 A. M., ar? rive Rimini 11.59. Returning leave Rimini 1:00, P. M., arrive Sumter 2:10 P. M Trains OB Hartsville R. R. leave Hartsville daily except Sunday at 0.00 a. m.. arriving Fl syds 6.35 a. m. Returning leave Floyds 8.0? p. m., arriving Hartsville 3.04 p. m. Trains on Wilmington Cbadbourn and Con? way railroad, leave Chadbourn 10:10 a. m. arrive at Conway 12.30 p. m., returning leave Conway at 2.00 p. m., arrive Chadbourn 4.50 p. m. Leave Chadbourn 5.15 p. m., arrive at Hub fi.00 p. m. Returning leave Hub at 8.15 a j m. arrive at Cbadbeurn 9.00 a. m. Daily ex- I cept Sunday. JOHN F. DIVINE, General Sup't. J. R KENLY, ?en'l Manager. T. M. EMERSON, Traffic Manager. CHAS. E. KIMBALL, RECEIVER. IN EFFECT AUGUST 21, 1893. All trains Daily Except Sunday. 02 05 10 17 27 42 53 1 04 1 08 1 20 1 33 STATIONS. Lv Charleston Ar Lv Pregnall's Ar " Harleyville .* " Peck's 4< Holly Hill " " Coottor8 4 " Eutawville " " Vancts 44 44 Merriam u 44 St Paul " " Summerton " " Silver 44 " Packsville " " Tindal 44 Ar Sumter Lv LT Sumter Ar 44 Oswego 44 44 St. Cha?es 44 44 Elliotts 44 44 Lamar 44 44 Syracuse 44 44 Darlington 41 44 Mont Clare 44 44 Robbins Neck 44 44 Mandeville 44 Ar Beonettsville LT 44 Breeden's 44 Alice 44 Gibson 44 Gbio Ar Hamlet LT S. B 2 P M? 8 45 7 27 7 18 7 05 7 02 6 57 6 50 6 40 6 25 6 14 6 08 5 59 5 51 5 40 5 27 5 22 5 ll 4 50 4 59 4 37 4 24 4 12 3 58 3 47 3 35 3 21 3 14 3 07 2 59 2 44 2 30 P M POND BLUFF BRANCH. No. 41 ?eaves Eutawville 9.45 a. m.,' Belvi? dere 9.55 arrive Ferguson 10.05. No. 42 leaves Ferguson 10 35 a.m., Belvi? dere 10.45, arrive Eutawville 10.55._ HARLIN CITY BRANCH. No. 33 going North leaves Vanees 6 50 y m., Snells 7 08, Parlera 7 17, arrives Harlin City 7 35 p. m. No. 34 going Sonth leaves Harlin City 5 15, Parlera 5 35, Snells 5 48, arrive Vanees 6 10 p. m. No. 31 going North leaves Vanees II 15 a. m., Snells 1). 35, Pariere ll 48, arrive Harlin City 12 10 p. m. No. 32 going South leaves Harlin City 8 30 a. m., Parlera 8 48, Snells 8 57, arrive Vanees 9 15 a. m. Trains 32 and 31 connect with No. 1 at Vanees. Trains 34 and 33 connect with No. 2 at Vanees. No. 41 connects with No. 1 at Eutawville. No. 1 bas connection from S. C., No. II at Pregnalls, connects with Harlin City Branch Trains 32 and 31 at Vanees and connects with C. C. No. 43 at Hamlet. No. .2 bas connection from C. C. No. 36 at Hamlet, connects with Harlin City Branch Trains 34 and 33 at Vanees and connects with S C. No. 12 at Pregnalls. No. 1 connects with Seaboard Air Line at Hamlet for Wilmington j Charlotte, Shelby, Rutherford ton ; and at Charlotte with R. k D. Vestibule Limited for Washington and New Tork. Passengers can take sleeper at Charlotte at 8.35 p. m. No. 2 passengers by this train have through Sleepers. New York to Charlotte, connects with S. A. L, at Hamlet from Charlotte and North, and from Wilmington, connetcs with S. C. R. R. at Pregnalls for Charleston and Augusta. Dinner at Hamlet. C- MILLARD, Superintendent. Cltarlestflii, LlGiaiati & ChicapRR SAMUEL HUNT, Agent for Purchaser. In effect April 9, 1894. CAROLINAS DIVISION. NORTHBOUND.-( Daily except Sunday.) Lv Charleston. S. C. R. B. Lv Augusta. LT Columbia....... Ar Camden. 33 7.15 a m 6-50 am 8.35 a m 12.50 p m LT Camden. Ar Kershaw. LT Kershaw. LT Lancaster. LT Catawba Jnnctioo, Ar Rock HillT....., LT Rock Hill. LT Yorkville. LT Blacksborg. LT Patterson Springs. LT Shelby. LT Rutberfordtoo. Ar Marion. 1.10 pm 2.10 pm 2.30 pm 3.45 pm 4.45 pm 5.15 pm 5 45 pm 6.30 pm 7.45 pm 8 04 pm 8.15 pm ll 8.00 a m 8.37 a m 9 10 a m 11.10 a m 1.00 p mt LT Marion, (R. & D. R R.). 1.46 p m LT Round Knob, 44 2.26 p m LT AsbeTille, 44 4.08 p m LT Hot Springs, 44 5.36 pm Lv Knoxville, (E. T. V. k G.) 8.00 pm Ar Louisville, (L. & N. R. R.) 7.15 a m Ar Cincinnati, (Q. k C.)_7.20 a m fg?TJTHB??N D.-("D???y~excep t Sund?yT)" 32 ?2 Lv Cincinnati, [Q. & C.] 7.00 p m Lv LouisTille, [L. & N. R. R.J 8.00 p m LT Knoxville, [E. T. V. k G.] 8 00 a m Lv Hot Springs, [R. k D.J 12.44 p m Lv Asheville, 44 2.30 p m LT Round Knob, 44 3.52 p m Ar Marion, 44 4.33 p m LT Marion. LT Rutberfordton. LT Shelby., Lv Patterson Springs Ar Blacksburg. LT Blacksburg. Lv Yorkville. Ar Rock Hill. LT Rock Hill......:..... LT Catawba Junction. LT Lancaster. Ar Kershaw. LT Kershaw. Ar Camden. S. C. R. R. LT Camden.... Ar Columbia. Ar Augusta. Ar Charleston. 6.45 a m 6.56 a m 7.15 a m 7.45 a m 9.07 a m 9.45 a m 10 15 a m 11.00 a m 12.00 p 12.50 p 1.05 p 2.00 p 2.30 p m 6.15 p m 12.45 a m 8.45 p m 4.45 pm 6.10 pm 8.23 pm 8.39 pm 9.06 pm Dinner at Kershaw. CONNECTIONS. Camden-With S. C. Ry., for Charleston, Columbia, Augusta and all points Sooth. Lancaster-With Cberaw k Chester N. G. R. R., for Cheater. Catawba Junction-With G. C. k N. R. R. Rock Hill-No. 33 with "Vestibule Limi? ted" on R. k D. R. R., arriving at Charlotte 8.30 pm, Washington 7 20 a rn, Philadel? phia 10 46 a rn, New York 1.23 p m. YorkTille-With Chester k Lenoir R. R. Blacksburg-With R. k D. R. R. for Spar? enburg, Greenville, Atlanta and points South, and Charlotte and points North. Shelby-No. 32 with Carolina Central R, R., also with Stages to Cleveland Springs. Marion-No. ll with R. & D. R. R. for Round Knob, Asheville and Hot: Surings. SAMUEL HUNT, Gen. Manager. A. TRIPP, Superintendent. S. B. LUMPKIN, Gen. Pass Agent.