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WxeHixxiTO??, July 21. n this t3S- cqbtsb Dr. TaHnage shows that thece is a tendency to excuse brilliant faults, Ixcmree they are brilliant, when thte iame law of rffeh and wrong ought to be appjied to htgh places and low; tiext, Daniel rv, S3, "The samre lkror wtf the thfng fulfilled opn IeliwDadnesaiar, and be cas driven from men and did eat grass as Oxen. Here ts the mightiest of l&e Baby loni&h Wngs. Loofe at him. He did more fur the grandeur of the capital than did all his predecessors or sue- cessors. Hanging gardens, reservoirs, on m m. nn nUn. nlng. The bricks that are brought up today from the ruins of Babylon bare bis name on them, "Nebuchadnezzar, con tf Nabopolassor, king of Babylon." He was a great conqueror. He stretch ed forth his spear toward a nation, and it surrendered. But he plundered the temple df the "true God. He lifted an idol, Bel Merodach, and compelled the people to bow down before it, and If they reftraed they must go fhrotigh the redhot furnace or be crunched by lion or lioness. So God pulled him down. He was smitten with what physician call lycanthropy and fancied that he ! was a wild beast, and he went out and j mastered amid tb esttla. God flid Dot J xense him becauo he had ctemmtttpi , the sm in high places r beeot th iransgreesion was wide resounding. He measured Nebuchadnezzar in high place A mPAsnrp thp hum. bleat . captive. S But !n our time, you know as well as f that there is a disDosition to put a halo aQand Iniquity if it is committed in conspicuous places and if it is wide resoundmg and of large proportions, Ever and anon there has been an ep there is pot a gtate ot a city and hardly J a village which has not been called to j look upon astounding forgery, or an absconding bank cashier or president, or the wasting of trust fund or swin dling mortgages. 1 propose, in carry ing out the suggestion of my text, as far as I can, to scatter the fascinations around iniquity and show you that sin is sin and wrong is wrong, whether In high place or low place, and that it wiff be dealt with by that God who dealt with impalaced Nebuchadnezzar. morality of the Gospel. AD who preach feel that two kinds of sermons are necessarythe one on the faith of the gospel, the other on the morality of the gospel and tbe one is Just as important as tbe other, for you j fcnow that in this land today there are hundreds of men hiding behind the, communion tables and in churches of Jesus Christ who have no business to be there as professors of religion. They jgxpect to be all right with God, a though they are all wrong with man. And, while I want you to understand that by the deeds of tbe law no flesh living can be Justified and a mere hon est life cannot enter us into heaven, I want you as plainly to understand that unless the life is right the heart Is not right grace in the heart and grace in tbe life. So we must preach sometimes the faith ofthe gospel and sometimes the morality of the gospel. . It seems to me there has not been a lime In the last 50 years when this lat ter truth needed more thoroughly to be presented in the American charcti- s. It needs to be presented today. A missionary in the islands of tire Pacific preached one Sabbath on hon esty and dishonesty, and on Monday he found his yard full of all styles of oods which the natives had brought. He cocld not understand it until a na tive told him, 'Our gods permft tfs to purloin gbods, but tbe God you told us about yesterday, the God df heaven and earth. It sftems. Is against these prac tices, and so we brought all the goods that do cot belong to us, and they are In the yard, and we want you to belfc ts to distribute them among their right ful owners." And if in all the pulpits of the United States today rousing ser mons could he preached on honesty and the evils of dishonesty, and the ser moos were blessed of God. and or rangecent should be made by which ell the gootis which have been improp erly tali en from one man and appro priated by another man should be put In tbe city balls of the country, there Is cot a city hall in the United States thzz would not be crowded from cellar to cupola. Faith of tbe gospet that we must preach and we do preach, aiorality df the gospel we mustjust as certa:ni proclaim. Now. look abroad end see the fasct cations that are thrown around dlf Cerent styles cf crime. Tbe questions that every man and woman has asked bare been: S bo aid crime be excused be cause it is co a large scale? Is Iniquity - proportion s it is on a small scafcl hall we have the penitentiary tatASt man who steals an overcoat from - a la or srf4-ri liairacx and all Canada for a man:p range in If he haa robbed the nunUc -X tsUltoas? " PaMtxtatloo ci PnnCi. I.ook upen all the fascination thnwn roundrfand in this country. Ycbknow lf ZtT3 J?liXt.a an(S lD vart0 P to th public a thocgh 'foTed4 tbarST not SSSI f8?6? cot teToSs 10 Our jxrang men have been dazed with this quick accaraulathm. They have saia: "That's the way to to It. What's the use of our plodding on with small wages or insignificant salary when we may go tnto business, life and .with fipme stratagem achieve each a fortune as that man has achieved V A differ ent measure has been applied to the crime of Wall street from that which has been applied to the spoils which the man carries up Rat alley. 8d a peddler came down from New Enghrnd many years ago, took hold Of the money market qT New York, flanflV ejl his atxnninatkHrs in the sigh of all the yeofcie and defied public muralB every day of his life, Xonrjg men look ed up and tfaid: 'H w&s a pedjdter in qae decada, and In the next decade fie lg one of the mcraarcJbB of the stock market. ThaTi the way Co Qo ft" To this ty the evil mffftenc? of fhit pro ligstfr ahaiicier has been felt, and with- tn tffc past few weeks h haa haa con spicuous imitator. T Irene has been an irresistible imprefc ; gion gaihg abroad among young man that the poorest way to get money is to earn ft. The young man eff flaunting cravat sara to the young m?n c hum- i ble apparel: "What! Yob only get $1- j 800 a year? Why, that wouldn't keep ' nre in pin mtiney. I spend $5,000 a . year." "Where do ytro get it?" asks the plain young man. "Oh, stocks en- j terprises, all that sort of thing, you know." Tbe plain young man has j hardly enough money to pay his board, j has to wear ctotnes arrer tney are out of fashion and deny himself all luxn ries. After a white he gets tired of his ploddiL. and he gos to the man wbo has achieved suddenly Targe estate, and he says, "Just show me how ft is done" And he is shown. He soon learns how, although he is almost all the time idle now and has resigned his position in the bank r the factory or the store be fcai pJ?rg bjoxwj. ifrtip fc i?ver bsi, trades "off bis d4 alitor to&teh f a gvkJ s wit a flashing chain, Mta his hat a Irrtie farther over on the side of his head than he ever did, smokes j better curars and more of them, lie has his hand in. Now, if he can es cape the penitentiary for three or four yeai's he will get into political Circles, and he will get political jobs and will have something to do with harbors and pavements and docks. No he has got so far ajong he Is safe for perdition. it is quite a long road sometimes fdr a man to travel before he gets into the romance of crime. Those are caught ; who are only in the prosaic stage of it. j If tbe sheriffs and constables would only leve them alone a little while, they would steal as well as anybody, j They might not be able to steal a whole j railroad, but they could master a load j of pig iron. j Now, I always thank God when 1 find an estate like that go t smash. It is plague struck, and it blasts the nation. ! I thank God when it goes into such a ' wreck it can never be gathered np again. I want it to become so loatb- ; some and such an insufferable stench ; that hones young men will take warn- ! ing. If God should put into money or its representative the capacity to go to' its lawful owner, there would not be a bank or a safety deposit in tbe United States Whose walls would not be blown out, and mortgages would , rip, and parchments would rend, and i gold wou1d shoot, and beggars would get on horseback, and stock gamblers would go to the almshouse. ! How many dishonesties in tbe mate ing out of invoices, and in the plaster- , ing of false label, and in the filching ; of customers of rival houes and in the making and breaking of contracts Young men are indqetrinated in the idea that the sooner they get money the better, and the getting of it on a larser scale only prove to them their greater ingenuity. There is a glitter thrown around about all these things. Yor.r men have got to find out that locks upon snn in a very different A young map stooft bebind a counfe ra ?5ew York filing silks to a lady, end he said before the sate wa,s con stimulated. 1 see there is a flaw in ht silk." The lady recagtfired iL and the sale was not consummated. The head man of tbe firm saw the infervfe, and he wro'te home to the father of the ycrcag man, living in tbe country, say Lag: "Dear sirCome and take your boy. He will never make a merchant." The father came down from the cout try home in great consternation, as any father would, woudering what his boy bad done. He came into the store, and the merchant said to him. "Why, your son pointed out a flaw in some sflk tbe other day and spoiled tbe sale, and we will never have that la.dy probably again for a customer, and your sen never will make a merchant." 1a fhat all?" said the father. "I am proud of bin! I wouldn't for the world have him another day under your influence. John, get your hat and coat. Let us start," There ar? hundreds of young men tetter the pressure, under the fas cinations thrown arcurrd about com mercial iiQuity. Thousands of yomi men have gone down under tbe pres surev, other thocsenAs have maintained their Integrity. Gad help you! Let me tay to you, my yong friend, that yp can be a great de$l happier in poverty than you ever jpsarve happy in a.prcsA jserrty wbicbrcm from ill gotten g&SL -Oh- i7ay "I might io Sf?. J ' LT J there and talk, but it is no easy thing, to get a place when yon hare lost it. Besides that. I have a widoirea mother depending upon tny earning, and you must not be too reckless in giving &dV Vice tO mft." Ah mm vnnn Mmi'X U always saf & do rbjht buTtt to safe to do wranx: You go home and trfl yottr motherthe presZune un! der wSch yem a that WI U Xosbe7wUiysay: uj BOq -ft--ther God has taken care of us all the yer and te will take care of us now. Come out of that" FIe t Thrtr TrnMt. And remember that the man who gets his gain by iniquity will soon lose italk One mdoaent after his departure fnom life he will not own an opera boose, he will not own a certificate of stock, he will not own one dollar of gmemmeiit saecuritfes, -and the poorest twy that siands on the street with a penny in his pocket looking at the fu neral procession of the dead cheat' as It goes by will have mere money than thU man who one W"eBk previous boost ed that he controlled the money inar &et Oh, ttfefe ft such a fearful fascina fftm m this day about thee use of trust funds! It has got to be pfcepniar to take the funds af Others? and specuhUe with tCepk TRvjv are many who are prao Gclijg fhsx toionrty. Alnjnst every man m the cpnrse df his life has the proper ty of others put m his care. He has aonmftteresl perhaps for a dfead friend; he Is an attorney, and muney passes from debtor to creditor through his hands, or he is hi a commercial estab Rshme'nt and gets a salary for the dis charge df his responsibilities, or be Is treasurer of a philanthropic institu fkm, and money for the suffering goes through hrs hands; or he has some of fice in city or state or nation, and taxes and subsidies and supplies and salaries are in his hands. Now, that is a trust. That is as sacred a trust as God can give a man.. It is the concentration of ctmfidence. Now, when that man takes that money the money of other and goes to speculating with it for bis own purpose, be is guilty of theft, false hood and perjury and in the most in tensae ene of the word is a miscreant. There are familis today widows and orphan with nothing between them and starvation but a sewing machine, or kept out of the vortex by the thread of need) a red with the blood f theif hearts, who were by father or husoan j left a competency. Tou read the story tn fa aewspaptr f those who have lost by a bank defalcation, and it is only one line, tbe name of a woman you never beard of, and just one or two figures telling tn amount of stock she had, the number of shares. It is a very sbort line in a newspaper, but it fs a fine of egony long as time. It is a story long as eternity. Now, do not come under the fascina tion which induces men to employ trust funds for purposes of their own speculation. Cultivate Id fashioned honesty. Ilemernber tbe example of WeWhigton. who when he was leading the British army over the French fron tier, and his army was very hungry, and tbeitf was prenty of plunder on the French frontier, and some of the men wanted to take it, said: "Soldiers, do not touch that. God will take care of us. He will take care of the Eng lish army. Plenty of plunder, 1 know, all around, but do not take it" Ho told the story afterward himself, how that the French people brought to him their valuables to keep he supposed to be their enemy brought him their valuables to keep. And then, he said, at a time when the creditors of the army were calling for money aud for pay all the time, and they had eo much all around about, he did not feel it right for him to take it or for the army to take it. Oh, that God would scatter these fas cinations about fraud and let us all un derstand that if I steal from you $1 I am a thief, and if I steal from yon 500.000 I am 500,000 times more of a thief! Society to Blame. So there has been a great deal of fa- cination thrown around libertinism, j Society is very severe upon the impu- rity that lurks -around the alleys and ' low haunts of the town. The law pur j sues it, smites it, incarcerates it, tries to destroy it. You know as well as 1 that society becomes lenient in propor- tion as impurity becomes atEuent or iB ; in elevated circles, and finally society i is silent or disposed to palliata Where ! is tbe Judsre.. tbe jury, tbe police officer, j that dare arraign the wealthy libertine? ; He waits tbe streets; be rides the ; parks; he flaunts his Iniquity in the eye of tbe pure. The hag of undear ness lodfes out of tbe tapestried Win dow. Where is tbe law that dare's take the braeen wretches and put their face's in an iron frame of a state prison window? , Sometime it seems to me as tf eo ciety wer going back to tbe state of morals Qf Herculaneum, when it sculp tured its Tileness on pillars and tempi wall aud nothing but the lava of a burning mountain could bide the in mensity of crime. At what time God will rise up and . extirpate these evila upon society 1 know not nor whether he will do it by fire or hurricane or earthquake but a holy God. 1 do not think, will stand it much longer. 1 be lieve the thundertKJits are hissing hot and that when God comes tp chastise the community for these sins, against which be has iTttered himself more bit terly ttan Hgainst any other, the fate of Sodom and Gomorrah will be toler able as compared with the fate of our modem society, which knew better, but did worse. We warn about 10.000 pulptts ra America to thunder, "All adulterers nfl whoremongers shall have their lace la the bell that burneth with fire and brimstone, which Is the second death. It is lieU on earth irnd hell forever. We have gat to understand that iniquity on Cdnnrbia heights or Firth avenu or Beacon hill ts al dan aable In the slgbl of God as ft li tn ttfe 6tnmg. Whether ft has catr&pied couch or eiderdown or dwells iaiid the pt tridlfy of a low tenement fconse, God IB after ft In hti vengeance. 5Tet the pulpit of the Christian churcu ha been so cowed down on t25i subject that it hardiy dares speaand mqn ajs aK mctet apologetic whelf they oead tfcp Ten Com man dments. Chep looft at the fascinations thrwh aiound assassination. There axe Id all E ill BARGAINS FOR YOU SINGLE COATS, ODD 13 communities men who have taken the lives of others unlawfully, not as exe cutioners of the law, and they go scot free. You say they had their provoca tions. iod gave life, and he alone has a right to take it? and be may take it by visfmtion of Providence or by an executioner of tbe law, who is his mes senger. But when a man assumes that divine prerogative he touches the low est depth of crime. Society is alert for certain kinds Of murder. If a citizen going along the roed at night is waylaid and slain by a robber, we all want the villain ar rested and executed. For all garroting, for nil beat'ng out of life by a club or au ax or a slungshot. tbe law has quick spring and heavy stroke, but you know that when men get affluent and high position and they avenge their wrongs by taking the lives of otherg great sym pathy is exerted. Lawyers plead, la dies weep, judge halts, Jury is bribed, aud the man goes free. If the verdict happen to be against him, a new trial is called dn through some tc-chnicallfy, and they adjourn for witnesses that never come and adjourn and adjourn until the community has forgotten all about ft. and then the prison daqr opens, ant! the murderer goes free. Now, if capital puntshment be right 1 say let the life of the polished mm dercr go with the life of the vulgar as sassin. Let us have no partiality of gailowsi. no aristocracy of electrocution chair. Do not let us float back to bai barisin, whn every man was his own judge, jury and executioner and that man had the supremacy who had the sharpest knife and the strongest arm and the quickest step and the stealth iest revenge. He wbo willfully and in hatred tak.s the life of another is a murderer, I care not what the provoca tion or the circumstances. He may be cleared by an enthusiastic courtroom, he may be sent by the government of the UuitecUStates as minister to some foreign court or modern literature may polish the crime until it looks like hero ism, but in the sight of God murder is murder, and the judgment day will sjo reveal it. Now, do not be fascinated by the glan our thrown over crime of whatever sort Because others have habits that seem brilliant, but yet at tle same time are wicked, do not choose such faults Stand independent of all such influences. Tut your confidence in tbe Lord God. He will be your strength. "Vengeanae is mine. I will repay, ssfith tb Lord." Cultivate old fash ioned honesty. Tbis boo is full of it. Old fashhmed honesty such as was spo ken of by Dr. Livingstone, he famous explorer. Ycm may not knew he wars descended nrom. the big-b landers. Efc Livingstone said that one day one of the old highlanders called his children around him and said: ipw, my lads, I, uav looked aU rougbvOUB family line, 1 have gone beck as far as 1 can, yxJ 1 find that all our ancestors ve Utfuegt people. There doesn't een to be qpe rogue among them anoyou M There is no class of merchants that appre ciate the trade of the farmer more than the Clothing merchant. When the season is bad and your work is rushed, debarring you of the pleasure 6f coming to town and doing your usual trading, we miss you, and miss you bad. As a result of your absence and with the expectation of having you with us soon, we have culled out some special Some folks would call these gigantic bar gains. Well, they are big bargains, and vyou'U recognize the value as soon as you see the articles. t f ( For next week we are going to close our Straw Hats at half price. We will als9 give you a showing at our 50-cent Silk Neckwear at 25 cents. THESE ARE ABSOLUTELY SPECIAL. have good blood. Now, my lads, be honest." Four Plain QneMtloxk. Theie are hundreds of yturfg to en who have good blood. Shall 1 ask three or four plain questions? Are your hab its as good as when you left your fa ther's house? Have you a pool ticket in your pocket? Have you a fraudu lent document? Have you been experi menting to see bow accurate an imita tion you could make of your employer's signature? Oh, you have good blood. Remember your father's prayers. Re member your mother's example. Turn not in an evil way. Have you been go ing astray? Come back. Have yoo ventured out too far? As 1 stand in pulpits looking over audiences sometimes my heart fails me. There are so many tragedies pres ent, so many wbo have sacrificed thefr integrity, 6o many far away from God. Why. my brother, there have been too many prayers offered for you to have you go overboard. And there arejtiase venturing down inro sin, and my heart aches to call them bacK. At Brighton Beach or Long Branch, ytfu hare see-n men go down into the surf to bathe, and they waded out fap ther and farther, and you got anxious about tbejUL Yon said, "1 wonder if they can swim?" And yon then scbxid and shouted: "Come back! Come back! Ydu will be drowned r They waved thefr hand back, saying, "No danger." They kept on wading deeper down and farther out from shore until after awhile a great wave with a strong un dertow took them" rui, their corpses the nexi day washed on the beach. So 1 see men wading down into sin far ther and farther, and I call to them: "Come back! Come back! You will be lost; you will be lost!" They wave thefr hand beet, saying, "No danger; np dangerT' Deeper dowb and deeper down until after awhile a wave sweeps them out and sweeps them off forever. Oh, come backl Tbe one farthest away may come. 'Oh," you say, 4you don't know where 1 came from. Ysu dont know what my history has been. Yon don't know what iniquity I have plotted. I have gone through the whole catalogue of sin." My brother, I do not know tb story, tout I tell you this: The dpor of mercy U wide open. 'Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wfc)L" Though you have been polluted with the voret of crimes, though yon have been smitten with the worst of leprosies, though you have been fired with ail evil pa-. si cms, this moment on your brow, hat with IniqultJus Indulgence, may : he set ttfe fashing coronet of a. vtgnjp forgiveness. FteMe3 trtth the vurt the ajlc&i b&gr to asc3 their tonsme enajla -And hen is frltad tier angels can their Joy coatefe. But kim&e vilb -new fin Sb tinner lost is fouJ. Hey ting, Axd strike ipe toujiig lyr. (Gopyrifht, HO, Louia KJoptci. R T.I mm IN SUITS, PANTS, Ac. J Southern Railway IN EFFECT JUKE 23, 1901. This can S eased schedule is published as in formation an1 is sobject to change witbtti bOUoe to tbe public. Trains leave Greensboro, Jf. C. : 5:55 a. m No 33 daily. Florida Pxres3 mth for Chariofe. Columbia. Savannah. Ai- f usta, Atlanta. Jacksonville, Tampa. I'u liwn: rawiag Room Bufito Sleeping Cara and uaj coach. Jhroueh coacb Washington 10 Jacfc soDViile and Waeh'.ngtOD to Atlanta. Tr06 a. m No. 37 lai)v. Washington & Sor.tb estra LiroiUMi for Charlotte, Atlanu. Ihr mingham, Memnhia. Aioatpomerv. 3Job;ie. Orleans and al poiota aonth. ThroujiD P i i man sleeper New York to New OiUrs New York to jtfernphu, Sew Yo:k to Nas ville; Pullman observation car New Vr.rK or ttiwon. Tourist car h Washington toAfliu Tourist Slecer WaPhinjjion -to Atlanta Tw it Sleeper Washington U San Francisco. Tat? ay. Thursday and Saturday, without tfutr& Dining cars terve all maU. 7:87 a, w. No. 11 dailv, for Charlotte. Atifi&u anil all points South. Connects at Salisbury w Aaheviile, Knoxvilleacd Chattanooga. 7 :S8 a. m. No. 8 daily, tar Danviile, UjctouK) and local tauou&. 7:58 a. m.- No. 8 dailr. for Raleisrh, GjU1-''W and iocal point. Connects at Sefma wi:n rraii for Wilon. Rocky Monnt. weMon aiuJ point; at Goldsbom tot Norfolk, 8:25 a. m. No. ICS for Winston, Wi!kii--'fO and local jo:nta. Daily to Win&tou-ciueii. Daily except Sunday to wilkesboro. 9:v4 a. m , So, -te, daily, except Sua1 lav, tc: Madison and local poinu. 12:43 p. m. No. : dairy Un'teii Stat f Mail for Washington, Kichniond an J fill l" Ncrth. Cflrriea thrfnh Pullman Drau.w? Boom BnHet leeper New Orleans to New i 'ti; Jacksonville to New York, Biranntiaa v Richmond. Dnninir can serv all meaia. 12:45 p. m , No. 36 daily, for Baieigtu boro ard local points Close conner'.r GoJd2boi-o for Newbern and MoreheiiJ C 12:45 p. ra. No. a3 tor 5anford. CotQfictt with A.CUfor Fayette vtue and locxii i1 outh. 13:45 p. n?. Xo. 1C7, dailj excel frum-toy, Winston-S&kan. 2:40 p. rn , No. 4 dally eaoept irurutoy. "'' Eam-eur and local pom to. 4:12 p. m, No. 33 tor SU. Airy aod Uons, 6:40 p. m. No. 7 dailv, for Charlotte !l points; connects at Salisbury for Hr " - Chattanooga and Memphis. Pullman bkiP operaaed from 81 Lb bury to kiemphia . 7:10 p. m.-Ko. 35 daily. Unitol States Fj HaU for CharloUe, AUant and ail South and Southww. liniug cars ve i meals. Connect at Charlotte for Colsip; Aujcusta, Savannah, Jacksonville. Ia..s Buffet Sleeper New York to New Orleans; Tork to JackaiviUe;Ricbmotid to Simmst' CJtarloue to Atlanta, Uhaxlott to Aima T USD p. m.-2o. UBdaify tor Winfetoai &a 95 d. ro.-5o. It dAirv. tor Reidsville. I3" tUe, fijohiuood axvd loual poante nnrth. ID'Al p. m. No. S8 diJv. Wahioffwc gj Southwestern Limited far Wathincfcm arvi Eints North. Pull mac Sieepers to Jtimore aod New York. This trin 'tr- 11:42 p m No. 94 uaUy. Florida north; c&mea thmcgb Pnlbnan ' aonviiie to New York. Chariot to Charlotte to Norfolk. . riffl a. nu-J a dai. 1?5v- onso asa hui io ta. rtiuiuu ' j- nection at UoJ434xo tor 2Sawbem aoi bead City. First fcecuooe of an rttanoieu rt":. tuej carry .pawenpsers between pwnta M vt" are scheduled to btop. H HABDwrca, rift Gau. Pa, akw, wa4ratoo. n. C r R. t- Vbriwht, T. P. A., Charlotte, c 3. a Gb a Hau. Ticket Aect, Grdeoi - . - .i-.t i r
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