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OUTLINES.
Both houses of Congress adjourned
situ-die yesterday afternoon, at 6 o'clock;
the proceedings of the closing hours
were of the usual character, and no busi
ness of general interest was transacted;
m the Senate Mr. Blair made a deter
mined effort to secure consideration for
his labor bill, but he finally gave it up,
finding that there was no disposition to
favor him; the President and Secretary
Blaine entered the Senate chamber a
few moments before the adjournment
and were warmly greeted. An
election was held in Georgia yesterday
for Governor, State House officers,
members of the General Assembly, and
two amendments to the State consti
tution; the Legislature will be over
whelmingly of the Farmers' Alliance; a
I. 5. Senator is to be elected to succeed
Jos. E. Brown. The Confederate
reunion at Winchester, Va., yesterday,
was largely attended, and there was a
grand parade of the veterans, who
carried a number of old battle-flags.
The Senate yesterday confirmed a num
ber of nominations for postmasters, in
cluding two for North Carolina.
A unanimous report has been made to
the House sustaining the charges against
postmaster Wheat, and declaring the of
fice vacant. Two hundred plate-glass
workers, at Cochran, near Pittsbirg. are
on a strike, and the works have shut
down. Gen. Lord Woiseley has
assumed command of the troops w Ire
land. Jack-the-Ripper h - noti
fied the police of Whitechapel oistrict,
London, that he is about to kill ; -other
v.-. .man. The seed merchants of
C. :e Vincent. N. Y., are vigorously at
work to get in their stocks from Canada
bvrore the McKinley tariff bill goes into
eriLCt. The workingmen in Ber
lin are rejoicing over the expiration of
the anti-Socialist law.
Georgia's
population is given at 1.S34.366, an in
crease of 18.0.) per cent. The
tariff bill was signed by the President
at o:-22 p. m. yesterday, about twenty
minutes after it was placed on his table.
New York markets: Money easy
a: 2(2,4 per cent.; cotton steady; mid
dling uplands 10 cents; middling
Orleans 10 It-IG cents; southern flour
d ill but steady; wheat dull, unsettled
and ijc iower, closing heavy; No. 2 red
Jl (ii3 ac elevator; corn dull, closing
easy; No. 2 red, 5Go(Ji cents at eleva
tor; rosin quiet and steady: strained
common to good $1 401 45; spirits
turpentine dull at 39J439J cents.
Henry Rochefort who is 62 years
o'.d has fought 100 duels. Dueling
seems to be a very healthful exer
cise in France.
California has already shipped
40.t0(i,o0(i pounds of fruit eastward
and still the shipment of late peaches,
pears and grapes continues.
loe Howard expresses the opinion
that "this is an age of exaggeration."
Correct. Some people say Tom Reed
is a statesman and a great man.
Boss Reed says reciprocity wil?
not work. The Boss and other high
protectionists like. him have made
up their minds not to let it work.
We are in receiDt of the premium
list of the Edgecombe Fair Associa
tion, whose fair will be held at Tar
boro October 28th, 29th, 30th and
31st.
Mr. Benjamin Harrison don't seem
to have a very high opinion of the
intelligence of the white or colored
Republicans of the county of New
Hanover.
Hon. Jas. G. Blaine has never
smoked, chewed tobacco, or drunk
spirits, fo which he attributes his
good health. But this didn't ore
vent him from being sunstrud
Cen. Jubal Early is a hard man to
kill. Any man that a brief 'louse
can fall upon and bury under a
great pile of brickwithout mashing
is a safe subject for life insurance.
Secretary Rusk, when interviewed,
did not feel at liberty to say that
Mr. Harrison was a candidate for
re-election, but had no doubt that
he would be the Republican candi
date in 1892.
The public school teachers in Mil
waukee, Wisconsin, threaten to strike
if their salaries are not raised. If
tney want to do any striking, that's
the way the scholars would like to
have them do it.
When the Republican gang in th
House resolved to thrust two ne
groes into stolen Democratic seats
they compromised bv selecting
Langston and Miller who were
even-eighths white.
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VOL. .XLVEL-NO. 9.
A strange monster is reported as
having been seen a number of times
lately in the neighborhood of Inde
pendence, Iowa. It is described as
having wings, a monstrous head with
horns, a mouth like an alligator's, a
green body covered with scales, eyes
that glare like an electric light, and a
yell that is a combination of the roar
of a lion and the scream of a. wild
cat. Can this be Joe Caldwell's
santer wandering so far from home
The Republican tariff managers
in Washington think thev have a
dead sure thing on the tariff for at
least ten years, as they have the
Senate safe and can prevent anv
material reductions within that time.
This accounts for running in those
frontier States to make the Senate
surely Republican. Ten years more
of heavy taxation for the people.
Both the Governor and Lieutenant
Governor of Nevada are dead, and
the State is pegging out too. She
numbers now about 50,000 people,
1J,000 less than she did ten vears
ago. What use has such a disinte
grating commonwealth for a Gov
ernor and a Lieutenant Governor
anyhow?
The tariff bill was left unenrolled
to the last to give a chance to cor
rect mistakes. About the biggest
mistake in it was the tariff bill itself.
It was all a mistake, if we can des
ignate an outrage by as mild a term
as that.
Ingalls got off some sarcastic crit
icism when referring to the tariff
bill Tuesday. Wait till the people
get a chance to throw in some of
their sarcastic votes next November,
and Ingalls won't be anywhere.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
B. F. Keith, Jr. Notice.
Star Office Boy wanted.
Monster Shows October 6,
Notice Citizens' Building Ass'n.
Munson & Co. Handsome suitings.
Kirrham &Co. Racket auct'n house
The Latest About the Custom House.
The latest about the Wilmington
Collectorship is that Young's appoint
ment is suspended like Mahomet's
coffin. There is no question about its
having been made; but it is represented
that President Harrison was under the
impression that Young was a resident of
Wilmington when he gave him the
plum that so many haVe been striving
for. Now, it is stated by one of the self-
sacrificing patriots who will accept any
thing they can get in the way of an of
fice with salary attached that Harris
on has promised to appoint any man
from Wilmington the party leaders will
agree upon and recommend. This
makes confusion worse confounded
for each and all of them are "fighting
mad" for the place.
Serious Accident.
Mr. E. W. Jackson, who keeps a
boarding house on the north side of
Market street, near Front known as
the Cape Fear House fell from a front
window of the second-story of the
building to the pavement below, last
night about one o'clock, and received se
vere injuries on tne neau. rie was
found lying unconscious and bleeding
profusely, by the police officer on the
beat, and was taken into the house. Dr.
Potter was called to attend him and
dressed the wounds, but was unable to
tell whether the man was injured fatal
ly or not. It is supposed that Mr. Jack
son walked out of the window while
asleep.
Naval Stores for Germany.
The Norwegian barque Biland cleared
yesterday for Hamburg, with 2,000
casks spirits turpentine and 1,061 bar
rels of rosin. Cargo valued at $39,250,
and shipped by Messrs. Alex. Sprunt &
Son.
German barque Burgermeister Kir
stein cleared for Stettin, Germany, with
3,443 barrels rosin, valued at $4,500, and
shipped by Messrs. Paterson, Downing
& Co.
Attacked by a Snake.
A coach-whip snake attacked .a color
ed man named James King, at Louis
Davis' place on Masonboro Sound a day
or two ago. The snake was about six
feetin length: it coiled aroundjKing'slegs
below the knees and threw him to the
ground, just as Spencer Hart, colored,
came to King's aid with a gun, with
which the snake was dispatched.
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Cotton Keceipto, Etc
Receipts of cotton at this port for the
month of September are 43,668 bales; as
against receipts the same month last
year of 15,717 showing an increase of
27.951 bales.
The exports for the month amount to
27,711 bales; and the stock on hand is
18,117 bales.
MORN
WILMINGTON,
LOCAL DOTS.
Items of Interest Gathered Here
and There Hnd Briefly Noted.
An excursion from Jonesboro is
expected Saturday.
Gen. S. H. Manning has return
ed to Wilmington, arriving in the city
last night.
Thirty-six vessels, aggregating
24,244 tons, arrived at this port during
the past month.
Col. T. W. Strange left last
night for California and expects to be
away for several months.
The excursionists from Ben
nettsville and other places on the C. F.
& Y. V. R. R. arrived 3bout noon yes
terday. The Pawme the new steamer to
run between Wilmington and New York,
is expected to arrive here Saturday
morning.
One of Mr. George Doyle's
children, a little boy six years of age, is
suffering with lock-jaw, from a wound
in the foot.
A meeting of stockholders of
the Cape Fear & Yadkin Valley railroad
will be held to-day at 11 o'clock a. m., in
the Mayor's office at the City Hall.
The Charleston papers mention
that the cutter Colfax is expected there
daily, Collector Johnson of that city hav
ing been instructed by the department
to disburse the monthly wages due her
crew.
Charley Ward, a white boy
about 15 years of age, fell from a tree
into the lot known as the city pound,
on Princess street near Fourth, yester
day afternoon. He was stunned by the
fall and his head was cut, but fortunate
ly no bones were broken. .
Rev. E. A. Yates, D. D., form
erly pastor of Front Street M. E. Church
and Rev. T. Page Ricaud, who was at
the same time pastor of Fifth Street
Church, are here to attend the Sam
Jones meetings. Dr. Yates is a witness
in the Flanner will case, to be tried in
the Superior Court to-day.
Sayings of the Rev. Sam Jones.
I wish I was the meanest man in the
world to-day, and I want to be just as
good as the grace of God can make me.
God tells a Methodist dead sure he's
got religion, but he's afraid he'll lose it.
He never tells a Presbyterian he's dead
sure, and he's afraid he ain't got it, and
so both are working out their own sal
vation with fear and trembling.
If a man really believes the old doc
trine "if I'm saved, I'm saved," he's all
right; the special provision God has J
made for idiots and children will take
that fellow in.
The Episcopal church is the best
equipped regiment of Jesus Christ, but
she has been in camp a hundred years
and ain'r fired a gun.
The Devil never catches me in the
same trap twice; he either has to change
his bait or move his trap. The same
saloon catches some of you three times
a day.
I never ask a man if he believes the
whale swallowed Jonah or Jonah the
whale. I believe there are people in
heaven now, who never did get exactly
straight on that point.
I hate theology and botany, but love
religion and flowers.
The Lutherans and Colored Missions.
The Lutheran Church has for many
years done a blessed work in her mis
sions in Africa. She is also beginning
an active and aggressive work in this
country among the colored people. She
has flourishing congregations in New
Orleans, La., Little Rock, Ark., etc., in
the South and in Eastern Pa., Washing
ton City, etc., in the North. About ten
years ago the North Carolina Synod be
gan work on its territory, and now has
five congregations and five ministers.
One of these. Rev. W. P. Phifer, is visit
ing our city in the interest of his noble
work at Charlotte, where he is pastor of
the colored Lutheran Church. , He has
a young and promising congregation, a
Sunday School of 100 scholars and a
day school of 103 pupils. Rev. W. P.
Phifer is a native North Carolinian and
a graduate of Howard University, Wash
ington City, where he studied theology
under the celebrated Lutheran divine,
Rev. J. G. Butler, D. D., who is the
Chaplain of the Senate, and a Professor
in the University. In April he was or
dained by Rev. F. W. E. Peschau of
this city.
A Steamer Lost.
A telegram from Beaufort N. C, to
the Star, last night says that the British
steamship Glenrath, 1080 tons burthen,
Anderson master, struck the wreck of
the Aberlady Bay at Cape Lookout,
at 5 p. m., yesterday. The ship is a
total wreack. The crew was saved, but
lost all their personal property. The
Glenrath was from Pensacola for Ant
werp with a cargo of lumber.
Dorcas Society Meeting.
The Dorcas Society of the Lutheran
Church will hold a meeting at 4 p, m.,
v in T.nther Memorial Buildine. A
full attendance is desired.
N. C, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1890.
REV. SAM. R JONES.
YESTERDAY'S SERVICES AT THE
TABERNACLE.
Immense Crowds of People in Atndance
Two Sermons by Mr. Jones Increas
ing Interest.
IN THE FORENOON.
After the usual preliminary exercises
and prayer by Rev. J. W. Jones, of
Maxton, Mr. Jones seated himself, Bible
in hand, saying he was not well and
would speak sitting, as the physical
effort was so much less trying. His
text was, "What must I do to be saved?
Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and
thou shalt be saved.l'
He said, if a -man should say to me.
"I'm a sinner, I want to be a Christian.
What must I do to be saved?" I have
no right to advise him to do anything
that he may not die doing. I might
advise him to keep good company
or read good books; both good adyice
Parents can never over-estimate the in-
fiuence of good company and good
books or the baneful influence of bad
company and bad books on their chil
dren. How many lives have been
wrecked by yellow backed literature.
I'd rather associate with a dog than a
man that swears; it might make me dog
gish but it wouldn't teach me to swear.
I'd rather associate with a hog than a
man that drinks; and if manners are
above morals, the hog and dog are
above the swearing and drinking man;
for one corrupts the manners the other
the morals.
I might say, join the church; I might
say, have family prayer; I have never
been able to explain for a professed
Christian man why he don't pray in his
home. It takes more religion to make
a man pray than it does to save his soul.
If I couldn't prav in my family, I i
wouldn't make any pretensions to reli- f
gion. l ve known a lew remancaDie in
stances where men prayed in their fam
ilies ten years before they joined the
church. They said religion was the best
thing in the world, and they wanted
their children to have the best thing.
I might say be baptised, take the sac
rament monthly, visit the sick, help the
poor a thousand things all good ad
vice, and yet I can see how a man may
do all these things and yet die unsaved.
These are all crowned instrumentalities
in God's hands to make us better.
Christ used the means of grace, but
not of salvation. The means of grace
and salvation are two distinct things.
Sinners use one, Christians the other.
You and I as sinners must use the means
of grace, which is, trusting, and then use
salvation to climb home to God. There
is but one sufficiency, that is faith; all
others are crowned instrumentalities.
Faith puts on an easy way to heaven;
the means of grace keeps us there.
There is no place here to rest on our
oars. That is why I believe in the "final
perseverance of the saints." I believe
in it theoretically, but practically I fight
it. I know enough about men to know
that if a man is dead sure he's got a
thing he ain't going to work for it. I
never had any use for the doctrine; "If
you seek religion you can't find it; if you
find it, you can't keep it; if you can't
keep it, you'll lose it." You can't swim
in a river until you get into the river.
A man can't use the means of grace to
get into salvation but must use it when
he gets there to save him.
Whatnust I do. Not what must I
read or think, but do. If every sinner
don't do something he hasn't done
he will be lost. As long as salvation is
conditional you must meet its conditions.
I believe in election. I believe the elect
are the "whosoever wills." I'm like the
old darkey who, when asked to explain
this doctrine, said, "I can't 'splain it,
boss, but dis much I know, no man's
'lected 'cepin he's a candidate."
Here he indulged in several pleasant
ries as to the difference in the "termi
nology" of the various denominations.
He said the Baptist runs to John the
Baptist, but the Methodist went back to
Adam, for didn't Adam fall ? He mani
fested every practical relation of the
Methodist church.
Some of the truest, best men I know
are Presbyterians, and I got my wife out
of the "Baptist pond;" so I'm a brother-in-law
to every Baptist.
The Episcopal church is the mother
of the Methodist. A boy ought never to
go back on his mother. The Episcopal
church stands on as solid a platform in
discipline as any in America. If an
Episcopalian tsays his church don't op
pose dancing he lies. Your Uncle Jones
has rdad up on your church.
He here paid a beautiful tribute to
. one of the city rectors who had spoken
out to his people on that line.
There never would have been a Meth
odist church if the mother had done
her duty, nor a Missionary Baptist, if the
"Hard Shells" had behaved themselves.
Every time a church splits, the piece
that splits- off gets nearer where God
wants it. I say these things because the
question is not church membership, not
outward forms. But what sort of a fel
low came in when you jined? Any
church is good enough for you, but all
are too good if you ain't going to live
righ.
What is salvation? Not feeling, shout
Star
NCI
ing not any outward act any more
than ray coat is me. Sripped of all else
it is God Almighty setting the Ten
Commandments to music in your soul,
making you love everything God loves
and hate everything God hates Not a
sentiment, but a condition that lifts you
out of life and makes you love what is
right -and hate what is wrong. I would
not trust my salvation to anything that
permitted me, as a matter of choice to
do wrong,
You ask have I never sinned since
my conversion? rYes; but God says "if
we sin wilfully after that we receive the
knowledge of the truth there remaineth
no more sacrifice," &c. Temptations
have beset and overcome me, but I have
never seen the time I hadn't rather do
right than wrong. The law must prove
a man charged with murder guilty of
intent, malice aforethought, before con
viction; is God less harsh than the
courts?
Salvation is that condition of life and
character that makes men do right be
cause it is the only thing they want to
do, and hate wrong with all their na
ture. How can I get into that glorious
state? "Believe on the Lord Jesus
Christ and thou shalt be saved." I
thank God that it is not faith in creeds,
but in Divine power.
A creed is the skin of truth set up
and stuffed with straw; no life nor pow
er in it. The Apostles had walked the
golden streets three hundred years be
fore the Apostles' Creed was thought of.
We have too much discussion on or
thodoxy. I never went much on The
ology with a big "O." The "C'logian.
a brother to the fool-os-oper and muddy-physician!
The two great questions are, "Am I
lost," and "Can Christ save me?" Be
lieve both and you are saved.
He then illustrated with great clear
ness the meaning of Faith by a man of
fering three little boys a half dollar. The
boys thought him joking, and just stood
and grinned. The fourth boy took it,
and the gentleman said, "boys that's
faith; taking what God offers''
Repentance is a condition of faith, and
faith a condition of salvation.
What must I do In order to go to
Washington you get on a train and re
main seated to your destination. Get
on the means of grace and keep your
seat until you reach God. Some of you
wont like the route and wont stay long.
There is one branch road that begins at
desire and ends at confirmation, you
can walk before breakfast. A man told
me he saw thirteen confirmed Sunday
and twelve of them in a ball room dan
cing Monday night.
The first station on the Grand Trunk
line is Conviction. When I got on
there I thought I'd die before the train
started. The next was Conversion, and
I was willing to get off right then. The
next, Obedience; the next, Brotherly
Love; the next, Generosity, and,when
the porter called out the name of that
station the passengers piled out Of the
windows and doors and the bones were
ten feet deep all around the station,
and when the train arrived at the last
station, Complete Consecration, there
was only one fellow left with me in the
car. By God's help I intend to stay on
this train until the signal blows for the
pearly gates, and then I'll light and tell
my mother we've said good-bye for the
last time.
Let's make a bee-line for heaven. A
bee circles around the pure flower, and
alighting extracts all the sweetness from
the blushing rose, leaving it with no
tarnish or stain on its fair petals; then;
circling upward, higher and higher, it
rises above every obstacle and goes in a
bee-line straight for home. God help us
tp rise above every temptation and
earthly obstacle. We can't go straight
until we do, and make a bee-line for our
heavenly home.'
It is said that the song of the lark of
Scotland is the sweetest music God ver
made. These larks roost in the grass,
and as the Scottish farmer comes in the
early morning he flushes the lark, and
as the bird circles upward he listens to
the sweet music of its voice and watches
it soar higher and higher until the last
sweet strain seems to join the choir
above. "Why should we grovel here
below ?" I want to get in harmony with
heaven before I get up there.
May God help us to impress the
image of Christ on our "children. I
had rather, my children were devoted
Christians than that they be kings and
princes. I have no care about the child
who sticks to Christ; it's the one who
wanders away.
How many here want this religion
I've talked about ?
In response to his invitation many
gave him theifhand.
THE NIGHT SERMON.
The interest in the Tabernacle meet
ings continues unabated. There was an
immense audience present, filling the
1 -. T . 1 . f r
Duuamg wun me exception oi a iew
seats on the side from which hearing is
difficult. Owing to the absence of Prof,
Excell, Mr. H, M. Bowden, the director
of the choir, managed the musical por
tion of the services.
Rev. Mr. Jones announced that after
consultation with others better informed
on the subject than himself, he had de
cided to have the special services for the
WHOLE NO. 7,490
colored people on Friday afternoon at
three o'clock, instead of Saturday as
heretofore announced. He said that he
desired all the colored pastors of the
city to meet him in his room at 'The
Purcell' on Friday morning at nine
o'clock to discuss measures.
From the 12th verse of the 9th chap
ter of Zacharias, "Turn into the strong
hold ye prisoners of hope; even to-day I
declare unto you I will render double
unto you," the Evangelisi delivered a
very impressive and convincing dis
course, as was evidenced by the large
number over two hundred that shook
his hand and promised to lead a better
life.
Mr. Jones said: The Gospel proposes
to give you everything for nothing. I
once made the assertion that the Gospe
paid the biggest dividend of anythingl
under the sun; and an old brother sup
plemented the assertion with, 'It's all
dividend. The Gospel asks of no man
anything but what a sensible man
should be willing to give. When the
Bible offers you life and happiness
temporal and eternal you cry out; I
have nothing but sin to give in exchange
for all this. But God whispers back to
you in answer to your wailing cry,
'Nothing but love shall you receive.'
Were the question of the immortality
of the soul and a future life eliminated
from our consideration, you should yet
do right because it is right. Virtue pays
cash enough in this world to reward
her votaries without regard to any life
hereafter.
Pardon a digression of a few moments
right here. Whiskey is sold because of
the money in it. Before I would sell a
drop of the cursed stuff I would steal
every mouthful that my wife ate. I
would steal every rag of clothes that my
children wore. The worst men in
America are the whiskey sellers.
Some of you say that it is none
of my business who sells or drinks
whiskey, when scarce a day passes
but we read of" some drunken
man reeling from a saloon to the side
walk and shooting some one down in his
mad fury. I say that it is my business,
and it is your business, for you may be
the next victim. The worst crime that
a man can commit is to deliberately get
drunk. If you will allow me to go fur
ther I will say that it is evidence of en
feebled manhood and pusillanimous
character for you to allow the whiskey
business to be carried on in this town. I
have received letters from broken-hearted
wives since I have been in this city
that if you read your heart would bleed.
If there were but one man in this broad
land to speak against that traffic, I
would be that man. On the Judgment
day I want to hear on what grounds God
is going to say to a member of that un
licensed saloon, the Cape Fear Club,
'Come, ye blessed, receive the reward
laid up for you.' You say that the club
is necessary in order to entertain visitors
to the city. You had better put the visi
tor in the river than debauch your young
men entertaining him. I understand that
it is the intention of some one to go for
me in the papers under a nom de plume.
Do you know what a nom de plume is ?
It is a buzzard with the feathers stamped
off.
God has his hand on this world and
as long as the lilies bloom and the
ravens are fed, God will take care of the
man that does right. The truth of the
text has been literally proved a thousand
times in my life. I have enemies, but
for every one I have a thousand friends.
I have seen the time in my life when I
have ate the last crust in the house and
spent the last dollar. But, thank God,
in the fulfillment of God's promise in
the text, the larders were soon stored
with an abundance. I preached for
eight years on circuits that paid me in
sums from sixty-five dollars to three
hundred dollars a year, and I thank God
that I did. People did not say then
that Sam Jones preached for money; and
now I am the best paid preacher in
America.
There are three classes of prisoners of
hope. The first class are those faithful,
pious and true men and women. You
are prisoners, but of hope; you are tied
by the ligaments of time, but when
death's angel severs the golden cord you
will be prisoners no longer. My mother
was a prisoner of hope, but thirty-three
years ago the pitcher was broken at the
cistern and she was a prisoner no longer.
The hope becomes a reality in the New
Jerusalem.
2nd class: Men and women of honest
hearts, who have given their hand in
this meeting and promised to live a bet
ter life. Honest penitents are on the
way to heaven, the star of hope shining
bright and glorious in their sky, leading
them on. Take courage. Say to your
self, "I will never give up," and march
on and on to the dawning of an eternal
day.
3d class: Those who have been think
ing and meditating upon what has been
said here. There is a chance for such
as these. As the surgeons were probing
the wound of President Garfield, and
he was writhing in pain, he said, "Is
there a chamce for me ?" "Yes, one,"
replied the surgeon. "Then I will take
it." So may it be with you. There is
one chance for you; will you not take
it?
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Ten lines solid Nonpareil type make one square.
But there prisoners without hope.
And first, there are angels who, in the
dawn of ages past, rebelled against God,
and were cast into the. pit of darkness.
The atonement is offered to man, but
on those in the nethermost pit no hope
ever shined. Oh ! it is fearful to con
template those immortals in eternal des
pair. The second class of prisoners without
hope are those men and women who live
without hope of immortality or the
knowledge of God. I do not believe in
salvation after death. Your preparation
for eternity must be made this side of
the grave. I'll preach anywhere that
God calls me, but I would not go to the
cemetery and preach. The Bible does
not teach any such doctrine. You have
got to prepare for eternity before the
coffin shrouds your form. If you can
look eternity in the face without the
quiver of a muscle, you are a braver
man than I am or want to be. God has
given some of you here your last chance.
God grant that you will take it.
" While the lamp holds out to burn,
The vilest sinner may return,"
is poetry, but not Bible doctrine. "Thou
fool, this night thy soul maybe required
of thee," does'not mean that you will die
this night; but that after the hours of
this night shall run, you have no chance
for redemption. There are men in! this
town who have ill-gotten gains, and be
fore they will disgorge, they deliberate
ly choose eternal death. Some of you
who sell liquor, before you would quit it
you risk your soul. I am afraid the
pastor of some of you liquor traffickers
is particeps criminis because he has not
declared the whole counsel of God.
You cannot say that I have not warned
you. You disregard all gospel calls, the
rainbow of hope shines above your
head and dazzles your eyes, the purling
waters from the throne of God make
music in your -ears, yet you sink down
and down. God pity the man who in
his last moments has no God to lean
on. Death like a giant serpent wraps
his coils around the sinner and slowly
crushes his victim. He raises his glit
tering head, and despite the shrieks and
awful cries buries his poisonous fange
deep into the quivering flesh, and
death awful, terrible follows. So the
dread serpent of death coils about every
Christian. But as he raises his head to
bury his fangs in your flesh, Christ tears
the fangs from the horrid jaws. Then
as the glittering eyes and forked tongue
again turn and play near you, you raise
your eyes with hope beaming bright
while from the lips wells the cry, 'Oh
death, where is thy sting.' Death to
the true Christian is but a transition
from the sorrows and trials of earth to
the eternal joy and life and love of
"Zion, the glorious city of God."
At the conclusion of the sermon Rev.
Mr. Jones announced that the singing
class of the Oxford Orphan Asylum
would render several selections. He
made an appeal to his audience to con
tribute liberally to the support of the
Asylum and for that purpose announced
a collection. I propose, he said, to be
gin the good work by giving them every
cent of money I have in my pockets,
and 'before God what I have in my
pocket is all I have here, in Georgia, or
in the world. I want every man here to
empty his pocket into the hat to-night.
There is an orphan asylum in my town
that I support. It has sixty inmates,
and on the first of every month the
superintendent draws on me for the ex
penses of the institution. I tell you
brethren, an orphan gets close to my
heart when I think of my little loved
ones home.
The usual services will be held to
morrow SUPERIOR COURT.
Yesterday's Proceedings Cases for Trial
To-Day.
Cases were disposed of in the Superior
Court yesterday as follows:
R. W. Hicks vs. John McDuffie, et al.
Continued.
Nancy L. Prevatt vs. R. E. L. Prevatt,
Continued,
H. A. London, admr., vs. Mary E.
Quince, et al. Continued.
Du Brutz Cutlar and wife vs. D. L.
Russell. Decree.
Clayton Giles and wife vs. C. B.
Wright and wife. Decree.
Hall & Pearsall vs. R. M. McNair and
wife. Judgment.
The following cases are set for trial
to-day.
J. H. Strauss vs. the W., C. & A. R.
R. Co. McClammy for plaintiff; Junius
Dayis for defendant,
James F. Post vs. W. P. Canaday.
Martin for plaintiff; Russell for defend
ant. N. A. Brickhouse vs. G. H. Dicksey,
administrator. Empie for plaintiff;
Meares for defendant.
In the matter of the will of Susan A.
Flanner. Russell and Waddell for
plaintiff; M. Bellamy, Davis and Meares
for defendants.
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For Virginia, light showers, followed
by fair weather, slightly warmer, winds
becoming southerly.
For North Carolina and South Caro
lina, light rains, variable winds, station
ary temperature, except slightly wanner
in interior.