The Meetings
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scores or the ust hight is
v , 1 THE T1BEMA0LE. ;- .
? IVt stand for Monday Mora
nt Mohairs Ye 'Monday
t 8 o'clock we pnt on sale a new
a famous Mwjjiierit Mohairs,
r, low as good. Shiny; shlm-
I la mn all the ; flM.
very lowott; f Those 4lohiri
. r one of their prestine glory.
t j du ruble, non-cmshaitie, ausi-
Busing Money to Pay Off the T. If.
0. A. Debt Presentations Eiti
mated Knmber of Converts.
The Bam Jones meetings are over,
the big tabernacle is silent and de-Jftnd every man present here tonight
sorted, but it will be many a aay wi iB a gervant on one side -or tne otner
fore the people quit talking aoousiof thj8 question, and ask, yourselves
the wonderful scenes, resuiw honestly, whom am x serving mor-
allv. Let us settle that first God
body: You boast In the fact that you
live In the freest government in the
world 5 but there is a very important
sense In Which we are all servants,
and a fearfully Important sense, and
In which, pay day f coming Jo the
Last man of us. Now, whose servant
am I in this moral and spiritual
world? Whose servant am It "To
whom ye yield youMelyesi erv4nt
to obey, his servants ye are to wnom
ye obey, whether of - sin unto deatn
or obedience unto righteousness,1
t s lustrous as they wore years
ILry ire so. stylish, uney are .. . . .vvai i this city,
ft - -M iLu " IrAIMI I VtMVU mta V M w . - - - -
7 t4t tow to mke them! The concluding service was held Uald "give me that hahd, Have you
totter now tHan ever ber in the tabernacle last night, and It done it? God said "give fmeyour
- I'de contains all the. Bprtoff was a notable one. The building
a, Cream and Blacks. WU packed, and the ventilating
t "Gray,- Pearl, Mahogany, fng on the north and south sides was
-ndanysbadeyw'veainindto dosed by a solid line of people who
nullities, and all of these nl,fBi,i, .nil hnnc
ch quality. 25c., 50c. nd87C. . M . ... . thA hull(,,ni..
Vii via as - v o-
Before beginning the services Mr.
Jones announced that he wanted to
help the Y. M. C. A. to pay off the
debt on the building, and called for
1 fall worth 621c. Lans-
-ewweare in tbis family. See
Jsayitls beauUful.
. LSeiglQ&Co.
1 foot" Have you done It ir you
have not you are no servant of God.
Then if a man is not a servant of God
he is forced irresistably to servitude
to the service of the devil.
Are you a servant of God or are
. Al J lit, V
you a servant or me uevui hu.
Not either. These are the goody,
goody fellows. They are not quite
good enough to go to heaven, and a
little too good to go to hell. What
AND
imldfrerohants
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if d In
' examine the largest stock of
.3. MEDICINES and BUN-
. ..iia the State.
'e sell at manufacturers' prices.
'ITTELL & DUNN,
TTT5ALE STORE.
- fond 6 West rade street
'ifb'sTOBkV'
- Opposite Central Hotel.
ATCHES,
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CLOCKS
-AND
iWELRY.
all present who were willing to give areyou going to do with that sort of
ffiOO to announce their names, tcllowa. Christ says again : No one
Messrs E D Latta, George B Hanna, caa serve two masters, in the moral
George E Wilson and Walter Brem 3en8e) he viji either love the one and
responded in the order named. nate trie other, or cling to one and
dispise the other.
Every man in this audience is either
a servant of God or a servant of the
drvil. A fellow came up to me in a
campmee ting and sald,brother Jones,
we are having a powerful meeting
hore; so much is being done. What
clmrch do you belong to? "I don't
belong to any church at alL" I
said: YouaChristainand not belong
to any church?
Here is a Christian that don't be
long to a church. Well I am glad to
meet you. i want your photograph,
aud when I call up penitents I want
to call ou you to pray. I can't pray
in public. Why? 1 ain't a member
of the church. After service Is over
will you take some young men off
and pray with them? I can't do
that because I am not a member of
the church.
The fact is, because you belong to
tne aevii irom your neaa to your
neeis. Whenever a man crets reli
glon he breaks for-the church the
same as a young turtle for the water,
and if he is a Baptist Christian, he'll
go to the pond sure enough. Well,
I'll always love you Haptists: 1 will
always. I got the best wifeever was
out or their pond. They are noble
folks. Whien side are you on, for or
against; gathering with or scatter
ing; abroad.
A rebel in an army, if he didn't be
long to a company or regiment,
would not be a soldier, and if you
can be a Christian and did not be
long to some company of Christ you
would not be of much use to the
Lord.
I said when X. drank whiskey and
played cards I could be lust as good
out of the church as I could in it,
and there ain't an old sinner in this
town who wouldn't say it
lie just as good out of the church
as in it; but when I gave my heart
to God I broke for the church with
all my right. Some of you fellows
say you're going to stay out and try
a wmie. iou tool, you have been
trying for a long while. Going to
try it yourself, are your
Well, a fellow said, I am not going
into tne Douse to get warm ; l am go
ing to stay out here until I get warm
then I am going in. Here! lor or
ipainst I never did like a neutral
man.
I have more respect for the saloon
keeper
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n
Messrs E M Andrews, K Barringor,
John W Miller, J C Burroughs, J 8
Spencer and J W Wadsworth gave
260 each. Capt A G Brenirer gave
1200. Sam Jones headed the list oi
100 contributors, and was followed
by R M Miller, Sr, W W Ward, A
Durham, O T Heath, M C Mayer, J
C Smith, Jos McLaughltn, John B
Ross, M F Trotter, J C Summerville.
The $50 subscribers were J R Pharr,
W L Long, David H Anderson, R F
Davidson, J M Smith, Evangelist
Fife, John Farrior, E F Youag, M P
Pegram, Jr, Dick Carson, Robert H
Jordan, A Brady, R A Dunn, Mrs M
A Osborne, J R Holland, Thomas H
Gaither. The $25 subscribers were C
M Bridges, J M Morrow, LLSarratt,
C W Tillett, L J Walker, Harry San
ders. W H Howze, W C Alexander,
Joseph H Wearn, R B Alexander,
Jr, Joe and Harry Asbury, F W An
drews. L Long. L D Hargrave, A
Butt, E B Henderson, E B Smith
W E Shaw. S Cramer. W C Dowd
Miss M Wriston.'Mrs Dr R L Gibbon
Mrs A B Springs, Mrs P M Brown
Mrs E B Smith, Nellie Alexander,
Mrs C N G Butt, N J McDuffle,
E P Sample, Miss L Scott, J G Har
ris, J W Pharr, Frank Alexander, W
J Henderson, J E Killian, C W Fo
gus, Walter Brem, Jr., R C Reed, R
H Torrance, R E Waldeman, J W
Jamison, G S Johnston, J G Boone,
McD Watkins, R L Gibbon, Jr., E K
Bryan, Jr., 8 B Waters, R M Oates,
Jr., Z M Johnston, R K Bryan, H S
Bryan, W F Dowd, W E Mun, J C
TateChas C Adams, J M Garrison,
J W Todd. While the $25 subscrlp
: Hons' were being called a child's
voice rang out clear and loud. In
stant stillness fell upon the building
as little Hamilton Wilson, son of
Mr. George E. Wilson, stood up and
ssked that his subscription of $100
bo received. Altogether 18,885 were
contributed. This leaves the build
ing about $5,000 in debt
After Mr. Jones' sermon a libera
contribution was given him for the
aunnort bf his orphan asylum. The
g- ,
closing scenes were affecting. Mr,
fctuart. Mr. Jones' assistant, was
presented by Dr. 'Pool with a fine
gold headed cane in behalf of 15,000
people; Mr. Excell was presented
with a pair of gold cuff buttons by
Rev. P. J. Carraway on behalf or tne
choir; and Mr. Jones was presented
v ith a beautiful stand of flowers by
Uev. i. C. Reed. Revs. Pool, Mc-
i(aua.yay, Orr, Todd, Curtis, ana
Caraway spoke of the good that had
teen done and all cordially endorsed
the evangelist. Prof. Hanna thanked
him In behalf of the Y. M. C. A.
It Is estimated that at least 1,100
converts is the result or the meet
ings.
Last night Mr. Jones said :
Now, brethren, I wont talk a groat
while tonight, but ir we will be
prayerful and thoughtful the most
gracious results' will come to us in
this concluding service in tnese series
of meetings.
Physically I am not able'to preach.
I Just wiantto have a plain honest
closing talk with you, and i want
you to consider what I say.
I want to tain mamiy on wu
thought suggested by'these words;
The wages of sin. is death; but tne
;if tot God is eternal life through
fesus Christ our Lord. "
There Wre two Questions which al-
way come up to employer and em
ployee. These two questions lie at
th very basis of all contracts for
labor. , mere is no sucn iniqg as an.
intelligent contract betweervan em
ployer and , employee,' without the
asking and answering of these two
questions. Now, if you seek to em
ploy a man for a day or an hour the
first thing you wiu asu is. wpat xum
v a T.TRF.PL HAKES. CM- of world do you want, me, to, dp, and
tinn aAtiHiaciorur; mere ia. tuiwmer
inevitable question, and that Is what
TOW GOOdD will you Wmdl
. ... .,... i axe pejowni uctc,;-iwii(5uAvv
r"r' 3f' ' t ' never in nn rj,"v,",ri 1
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filing
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I wish to 1om my buBlness in
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:t two or hree months I offej
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that works and talks for
whiskey than I have for n mau who
says he is not with ma He don't
vote either way.
These old goody, gooiy, members
of the church. "I never vote at all,"
says I don't want to hurt feelings; I
don't want to make enemies. You
don't want to hurt feelings.
For or against If I am a servant
of the devil, which every man must
be if he Is not a servant of God.
will every servant walk right to the
door of tnis audienc and say here,
what do : you want me to do? He
wants you to do everything to make
your wife think Lbss of you, and do
those things that are disreputable
and th.tt: dishonor you and disgrace
yourself and doom your soul forever.
And not only does he wa&tgpopleto
doit, but he has got them at it every
day. He ought to pay them mighty
well. If I'd do these things I'd jiave
good pay.
What do you get for your service
in the course of the devil, old fellow?
There is many a fellow in this
town working for nothing and board
himself and some of you have got
so low down as to make your wife
board you. You are the lowest down
fellow in the earth.
Now hear me. When I was talk
ng along like this once a mean bid
sinner sat- near bv. I not n ted my
flneer' at him and said: Get up and
teil this audience wnat you nave got
fer oo. years oi service to the devii.
l ne -next aay ne met me ana said:
If I had got np there last night I
Would have scared some of those
folks with my experience after
alter" 651 tears of bondage in the
service, ef the deviL They wouldn't
have srdae home that night All I
. 'r: li t j l.iii
nave to i snow tmm nwu, reoemous
rwinfcYer o avea. , i ; ;
flam talking to those sinners to
nlgbti What ean you show for the
mostfdfcsreputabje service you ever
engaged' ray ay is coming.
What 'kind bt work does the Lord
want me to-'do? - He wonts me to
- -. walK - uumbiv before
od, ana near tne fruits of
lqve mercy
Of ut
he eotrlt which ;J toytipeace, long-
lanenng, gooaness, meejiuess,
tem
is no
ndranee. Against suclP'tbere
fcuar.ille wants ma to fear pft
keep" nis commandments. Well,
good Lord,'; if this kind of work
makes my wife think more of me.
elctates my nature, redeems . me if
f t tsVthe kind f -work. Vell
t, i;,; y9; I will give
enough to keep you through this life
nil fritrA . vnu home at last lust as
certain as! am tatting here tonight.
If the devil disgraces him t ana
damns him, how does It happen that
he has got a servant in tne. woriar
Did you ever set down ana think
about that? " The laborers are talk
inn of striking for 8 hours. I can
O ..".M.-t.: -
go m tne manuiactaxug regions oi
Pennsylvania' and strike in every
man in that town, ki am witn labor
eyerr time. I am always with the
bottom dog in every fight, and if yon
want to find Bam Jones any time
and you go scratching On the bottom
dog, if he is not there he has gone to
dinner. That's wberel live and find
him every time. I am with laboring
teopie every ume always with them
n their struggles up to the time
where they use violence. I have
worked for 75 cents many a day. I
know, what it is to work with these
hands and I am glad I do. I've got
muscie nere mat s . wortn some
thine, and I didn't get it with the
gymnast w el ther. J t tickles me to
see r yon Jit 1 fellows - kicking nd
squirming. Mid home and cut your
daddy's wood, i Myv l tell you boys,
I am proud of these g'ooee eggs up
here on my arm. I got them with a
pick and shovel. You Bee Brother
Excell. He got his with a brick-
mason's trowel ana plastering
tools plastering houses. You look
at Brother Excell. You'd never 1
think he had been poor white folks.
Brother Stuart never has been any
thing else. I mean he is white folks
and he is poor looking.
Well, If he keeps on he'll be as fat
as .Brother weed, vvnen i went .to
preaching I was right lean myself,
but just look at me now.
Wow, brother, l sympathize with
labor every time. God bless and an
swer the cry of the laboring people
all over the United States, and where
their wages are cut down, strike if
you want to, but depend on God's in
terest of strike.
But listen! The devil has been
ailing your wages all your life, and
you have been working for the devil
all of your life. I have been going
through the United States as the
Christian knight or labor, l wish l
could get a servant of the devil to
strike on him. He struck up for you.
wish I could get up a striae for the
devil. Why wouldn't there be a
strike if every mau or woman and
child in this town would go on a
strike. Cau't get you to strike.
We have begged aud pleaded with
you low down fellows the employ
ees of the devil. God will bless you
and give you glorious employment
enough to live on while you are here
aud everlasting life to coma Lord
Jesus, help every one of us to go on a
strike for the devil and say I have
drank my last drop; that I have
violated my last obligation to God ;
I will live in his service; I will die
in his service.
Now, I have said why is it if God's
employment is elevating, and brings
with it peace, joy and happiness, ana
if the devil is degrading us, why is it
that there is a living man who will
choose the service of the devil. I'll
tell you how it works. The devil's
plan is this: To beguile and entice
a fellow while he is in his service.
I can illustrate this better than 1
can talk it When I was a little boy
about ten years of age the devil took
me by the hand and led me up to a
beautiful palace, having large spa
cious parlors, and he showed me the
beautiful rurnlture and beautiful car
pets and maguiflcetnt pictures,and he
showed mo all around, and he looked
at me and said: If you will be my
servant, all this Is yours. I looked
around at that magnificent palace.
There was the sofa of contentment,
chair of ease, table of pleasure, and
evnrvtliing mv heart and nature
called for. I looked around and said t
"All right It's a bargain." I walked
out of the palace one day, and when
1 got back my chair of ease had been
removed, and I never felt as easy in
there afterward. I went out another
day and when I got back found my
sofa of contentment was removed and
I never felt as contented there after
wards. When. I got back another
day I found the table of pleasure had
been carried outand I never did have
much fuu and pleasure after that,
and so on went these things. One
after another were removed. The
lace curtains were taken down; the
pictures were removed, and, oh ! my
God! how those pictures used to
charm me. Another day a window
was gone, and it was growing per-
ceptably darker; so 1 had less ways
of ingress and egress. How dark It
became. The last window had been
taken out aud the lost door had been
removed, but one, and everything
gone. How desolate. One night in
AUgUSt 1 WttlKea OUl OI wiav uuur wj
see my father die, and I promised
him 1 would never go duck w ma
place. But a friend of mine stayed
n a little longer than I'did. ue
taved until all the doors were re
moved and he said that the very
walls of that palace was coming to
gether every day and every hour,and
the walls 6f that palace crushed to
gether upon him and be admitted
with nis last nreain. ;:,;. raI
aln laHoth YnnknOW tl)8 deVU
enticeth and then robs usV . Th first
drink I ever took I tnougns woum
be manly, I have learnea ine ways
of a man, and I despised jnyaelf for
1 I K I M n W WA.tniAH T1IJIJ1IL
l was Deguiiea in iuw
devil and he robbed me QfM.eyery
Klooalnrr. hut Irlnrv to MOa.l aui U1B
service and I reloice In the uvinest
mMtar A.nfl tt ava ervea xnm iuhi
years. Thank .God I wouldn't swap
my license as Mimuu ,v i
ror tne presiaency wi
Ht.atP. f don't have to be elected
every four years. nave - go , my
nliM rnr mmn.
itrncner. i wisn j. cuuiu w
years longer and preach two.times ft
day for po years. Then I would
want to stay one mousauu ."f"1"-
wr mvaaif nnK There' MO'I an
6ntnA nil f.h R. A" D. R. 1L but What
It has to wear Itself out .That's the
ml a to be worth something, wear
yourself out "Get the rjust otryou
nnd ihlnn -vnurself UD and tO it II
jr . . - .
you see a fellow witn rust on mm,
he aint been' thareW'-J"
I conclude this talkrjtist by saying
4.ia . if. n-at.a tiot.tf r all the time.
i till. . kuu .v , v ; 7 . . rf v i .
WV4 tstr6nger all tfo time,nre'P;
hopeful all tne time,anu more uvvj
all the time in the service of the good
Lord : but the sinner's life gets more
reckless .and tided and miserable
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PARENTS,
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ATTENTIOS! LISTEM!
0t-
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few words today about dl ioYS' AND CHILDBEnV
We'll say a
DEPARTMENT. As you enter our store Jve confront von with the Ucrt
stock of Boys' and Chllden's Suits (all efcted with the greatest care and
taste) that is tone rouna in tne estate, litne i. . --
A
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STYLISH PLAIDS,
Jujul Vifrv BTlTuTru V
"' w , ; NEAT MIXTURES,
For which your heart, mind and boy wishes, and for very little cash.
HEAE US. HEAR US.
Try and soe if you can't memorise a few price herein mentioned. If
you can't see 60 cents to $1.50 iu your pocket and three stylos to other's
one, we aon't ssk your patronage, nert's what a
$1. 11.25, $1.60, and $2.00 elegant School Suks (dark
fellow who's fond of fuu and frolic. And along
special
small amount will do.
r light) for the little
his line we'll say our
SUITS
SUITS
SUITS
SUITS
14.95
HUfTK
8U
SU ITS
HUITS
For boys from 14 to 18 eclipses anything we've her.'tofore shown at $".fiO
Time aud space forces us to an abrupt close,
firing your boy around and try us this time.
W. KAUFMAN & CO,
LEADING CLOTHIERS, GENT'S" FURNISHERS AND HATTERS,
CORNER CENTRAL HOTEL,
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
Come and see our Oxford Ties and ( E. C. Burt A Co. celebrated NVw
Slippers, finest stock iu the city, i York Shoos und Slippers, new line
Our $125 tine Kid Turn Oxford , ! jut received, aiwavs the best, makes
ratent Tip ana l oraraon rseuse, nr e ana lowest prices.
never been equalled, fine line
the popular colored Oxfords
Ladies, Misses and Children's.
G1LREATH A CO
Those 2.00 Ladles' Shoe have hud
a great sale. We have lots of ther i.
Ask to see the finest $.'.00 Boots in
the world and the best, and our un
surpassed f4.uo Hand-mnde Boots,
and the finest Goods ever show n ut
$5.00, Weget there every time on
flue goods.
GILREATH A CO.
G1LREATH & (X).
New lot Paris Flat Top Trunk,
extra slues. Finest Valises and Club
Bugs ever In this market, New-gfiod
ev-rv week.
GILREATH A CO.
Wo hihWh a specialty ef tlie Iwst
gu,Hls, yet we rriy a full line fr..ni
the t lx upe-t up, nil mado to our
special order We will sell you nth
hij; that will not le worth your
money.
GILREATH A-CO.
STKANGEES
OUE
:-: VISITING
CITY.
For the next thirty days there will be a grout ma y strangers vi-lilug our
city. They would do well to cnll on us and ur munimoth Ht.u-k of
GENT'S, LADIES', MISSES' AND CHILDREN'S
FINE SHOES!
FINE SHOES!
We purohased heavily this season aud will be a' le to show a stock of
BOOTS m SHOES
Seldom seen In any Southern city. We are alw.tys in the front ranks in
thehandllng of ALL KINDS OF FINK FOOTWEAR.
Our stock of Ladles' Hand-Sewed and Hai d-Turned Button Boot
and Low Shoes excel any previous lines that we have ever shown. We
have an ertdless variety of Misses', Children's aud Infant's Button Shoes
and Oxford Ties and Slippers, and in fact our store Is full from bottom to
top oi new, iresn goods just from tne lactones, ana maae to our order by
the very best Shoemakers in the land. Come and see us and get our price
and compare with what yon hay been paying.
GRAY & BAENHABDT,
Successors to Gray A Co
cash-v v
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19 East Trade Street
PARteaeuiTs.
New Goodsl New Styles t,; My ., r
My stock of Parlor Goods Is a near t
- complete now as at any time in the his- '
tory of my business, and the people of this
community know that I LEAD fatthe latest
styles, knowing I have made It a speoial study
for nearly a quarter of a century. "Think of this." One
Solid Cherry Frame, upholstered In silk plush, 6 pieces, at
$42.00. Remember this is polish frame, ana cheaper than It can
possibly be bought auy where. One Antique Oak Suit, up-
bolstered in fine quality, silk plush, 0 pieces at $4ft.0a -
Ryrryone knows what oak is, and knows it to be styl ; t
. . ish and u!-durftble. I have a Silk Plush I viV
1 Suit, Cherry fraiwsvupholstered in bksi Silk ' ;
' - 2,Plu8h,"ShellBftc:cAat$o8.oa This suit t
is sold close, remember that I have .
several r grades oi - riusn on
the same kind of
'frame.
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