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The IHorwmg jtax jly WILLIAM II. BERNARD. PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT MONDAYS. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTIOO, IN ADVANCE : One Year (by Mail), Postage Paid $6 00 Six Months , , 3 00 Three Months, 1 60 One Month, " rsf" To City Subscribers, delivered in any part of tb-Citv Twelvh Cents per week. Our City Agents are not authorized to collect for more than three months advance. swred at the Post Office at Wilmington, N. C, as Entered cass Mjdl Matter. OUTLINES. The trial of the Nationalists at Tip terary was postponed yesterday until Tuesday on account of the sickness of one of the accused. Cartrony' the Radical, who killed Councillor Rossi, in Switzerland, has been arrested in Lon don, and will be held for extradition. . The London Gas Company are making every preparation in anticipation of a strike of their employes, but the men now say they intend no strike. Bir- chail. the condemned murderer in Can ada, is beginning to realize his impend in fate; his wife's health is improving. The Republican majority in Idaho ,s now stated to be 2.000; Desbook. pre sent Congressman, will be one of the United States Senators. The steam er Iroquois, ol the Clyde line, cotton la den, was on fire in East river, Now York. yesterday. Natural gas caused a fire in lohnstown, Pa., yesterday, which destroyed property to the amount of $40.000. An accident occurred on i.he N'orthern Pacific road, yesterday, near Helena, Montana; the engineer was r;i!ed and the brakesman badly injured; the passengers also fared badly. .indue Thurman, of Ohio, will be 77 years old on the loth of November, whev. a banquet will be given by the Thurman Club, at Cleveland; cx-President Cleveland has accepted an invita tion to be present. There is great . ; itenient in Rome, Ga.. over the pois oning of a lady by a female (r end and uhbor; the poisoned lady lies at the . o! death, and the poisoner !v:s fled ire ' i'-v; money was the cause or it all. i he Secretary of the NV-. y has .iv.rd.:d contracts to a Philadelphia :.! lor the construction of two coast :. e o.ntle ships for $3,020,000 each; and ;. tendered the building of a third r.':i;.' to a California firm at the same :i.;ur.js. The Treasury Department ,i.- closed yesterday out of respect lo i'::-' memory of ex-Secretary Thomas, of M.;- land. The well-known firm of Fleming Bros., Pittsburg, dealers in proprietary medicines, made an .isvjjnment yesterday; liabilities $500,- :(; assets double the amount. New York markets: Money easy at 3 ier cent.; cotton easy; middlinguplands l!';s cents; middling Orleans 10 9-16 ec us; southern flour firm and quiet; e n.T,on to fair extra $3 355 75; :;eat dull: No. 2 red $1 011 02; ,- :rn dull but rirfn: No. 2 red, 5o56 (-oats; rosin dull but steady; spirits tur-;.;--.;ine firmer and quiet at 414l- Mr. H. C. Wall has disposed of iut-jrest on the Rockingham v.-'7 to his associate, F. C. Guthrie, aumes exclusive control. President Harrison will leave Washington for a Western visit to ;i 'rrow. If there should be a sudden fail in the temperature, don't b : sur- ri :eci. Tiic Monroe Register bega . .is se cond year with the issue of la-t week. It is an excellent paper and lias well deserved ali the success with which it has met. "A f oi and his money ; :e soon parted.'" Freddy Gebhard? has got away with most of his forti. ie. which he squandered in playing poodle to the Jersey Lily. Wc are in receipt of the premium list of the Roanoke and 'Fir River Agricultural Society for its 21st an nual fair to be held at Weidon the "2tth, 20th, 30th and 31st inst. If all the whitewash in Washing ton had not been used in giving Commissioner Raum and his refrige rator a coat they might have put a few dabs on that House Postmaster. Since the passage of the Anti Lottery law the business of the New Orleans postoffice has fallen off im mensely, its money order and regis tering business over thirty ptr cent. The King of Portugal got sick from drinking a glass of water. This is the first information 'we have ever had that there was any Ken tucky stock in the King of Portugal. John Williams, of Bristol, Pa., is goin, out of the coach driving busi ness, and will devote his time to manipulating a fortune of $300,000, 000 left him by a deceased uncle in California. The late Samuel J. Randall, after nearly thirty years- of life in Con gress left an' estate worth about $5,000. He didn't acquire the busi ness method of Hon. John Sherman James G. Blaine and other dis tinguished Republicans who entered public life poor and on a salary of 5,000 a year, managed to become millionaires. I HE VOL. XLVII.--NO. 12. Ex-head-chopper Clarkson savs J31aine will not make a fight for the nomination for the Presidency, but if the nomination is tendered him he will accept it. In the meantime Blaine is quietly laying the wires and getting things into good shape for that tender. James G. don't go around with a brass band when he has any special work to do. According to a German writer who. has been figuring on railroads there have been constructed in the world within the past four years 150,000 miles of road. Of the total mileage in the world America has more than one-half. Mr. Blaine is too busy now study ing up his reciprocity that he hasn't any time to look after the seal busi ness in the Behring sea. In the mean time the seals are being scooped up and the poachers are having a jolly time. If Ingafls, Lodge, Tom Reed,Cod fish Hoar, et a, of that kid went clown to Knoxville and took in the Blue and Gray festivities this week, it might do them some good and eli minate some of the "pizen" from them. The Reed strikers are beginning to boom him for the Presidency. At the Republican primaries in New York city last week some of the tickets were headed with a large por trait of the gentleman of the sash. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Star Office Boy wanted. F. H, Krahnke Removal. C. W. Yates School books. Cronly & Morris For rent. Cronly & Morris Removal. R. R. Bellamy Open to-day. S. H. Fishblate Greatest show. Jas. D. Nutt Drug clerk wanted. Kirkham & Co. Big auction sale. Brown & Roddick To the front. J. H. Hardin Patent medicines. H. L. Fennell Harness, saddlery. Cronly & Morris Real estate sale. Death of Little Herbert Doyle. 4 Herbert Doyle, the six-year-old son of Mr. Geo. W. and Mrs. Ida C. Doyle, died from lock-jaw yesterday, after ihe most terrible suffering. The little fellow, about a week ago jumped into an old pit in the yard at his father's residence, and cut one of his leet severely on a tin can. The wound bled profusely and seemed to be doing well until a few days ago when lock-jaw set in and terminated fatally. The family have the sincerest sympathy of the community in their sad affliction. The funeral of the child will take place this afternoon at 3 o'clock from St. fames' Church, The Daily Review. Our neighbor 7 he Rezu'ezv failed to appear yesterday. The cause was the breaking down of the press upon which the paper is printed, after the first side had been worked off, and so late in the day that all hope of getting the edition off had to be abandoned. The pub lisher says the repairs will be made early Monday morning and the Review will appear as usual that day. It is the first time such.a disaster has occurred during the thirteen years in which the paper has been published.- The Clyde Line'sNew Steamer. The Clyde Line's new steamship the Pawnee built to run between New Yoak and Wilmington, arrived here yes terday evening about seven o'clock, un der command of Capt. Trlbon. She left New York last Wednesday at midnight. The Pawnee is a wooden ship about the size of the Gulf Stream, but with great er capacity for freight. Her length over all is 210 feet. She has accommodations for about twenty first-class passengers. The Collectorship. There is nothing new about the col lectorship of the port of Wilmington. The delegation which went to Washing ton a few days ago have wired nothing to the anxious ones at home and every body feels himself "in the soup." Young, the colored appointee whose nomination was "hung up," is also in Washington, putting in his best licks to secure the place. Cotton Belt Bulletin. Fair weather prevailed yesterday throughout the South no rainfall being reported from any districts of the cotton belt from Weidon to Galveston. The temperature was higher than it has been for the last few days, the average maxi mum ranging from 78 to 88, and the average minimum from 58 to 62. Weather Forecasts. The following, are the weather" fore casts for to-day: For Virginia, fair weather followed by showers Sunday evening, southwesterly winds, stationary temperature. For North Carolina and South Caro lina, slightly warmer, fair weather, southwesterly winds. Morn WILMINGTON, N. C, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1890. LOCAL DOTS. Items of Interest Gathered Here" and There and Briefly Noted. Oakdale and Bellvevue Ceme teries each report one interment the past week both adults. - The Register of Deeds issued three marriage licenses during the past week two for whites and one for col ored folks. Rev. Dr. Weaver, who has ac cepted the position of assistant minister of St. James' Church, has arrived here and will at once enter upon the dis charge of his duties. The Eastern Baptist Associa tion will meet with the Church at Riley '-6 Creek, Pender county, next Tuesday, the 7th inst. Several persons from this city are expected to attend. No, the Street Railway has not been sold. Messrs. Hawkes and others. have an option on the property. They may buy, or they may pay the forfeit. Only this, and nothing more. In the Mayor's Court yesterday Louis Sanders was fined $5 for throwing stones in the streets, and Amos Talley was fined $20 for disorderly conduct. There were several other cases. The registration book for the Third Ward is not in Giblem Lodge, but in the small wooden building west of and adjoining the Giblem Lodge build ing. The registrar's name is A. J. Yopp. The British steamship Nith was cleared yesterday by Messrs. Alex. Sprunt & Son for Liverpool, Eng., with a cargo of 7,500 bales of cotton, weigh ing 3.777,452 pounds, and valued at $376,000. An excursion party, numbering several hundred, arrived here yesterday morning by train on the C. F. & Y. V. R. R., from Jonesboro and other places along the line. A large number of the visitors went down to Carolina Beach on the Passport, but many remained in the city to attend the Sam Jones meetings. The excursion train returned last night. SUNDAY SERVICES. Rev. L. T. Christmas will occupy his pulpit at the Central Baptist Church, corner of Seventh and Red Cross streets, to-day at 11a. m., at 3 p. m. , and at 8 p. m. All are cordially invited. Services at St. John's Church to-day as follows; Litany, Sermon and Holy Communion at 11 a. m. Evening Prayer at 5:30 o'clock." Sunday School at 4:30 p. m. Services at the First Baptist Church to-day at 11 a. m., and 7:45 p, m., con ducted; by the pastor. Rev. Dr. Pritch ard. The services at St. Paul's Evang. Lutheran Church, corner Sixth and Market streets, Rev. F. W. C. Peschau, Pastor, to-day, will be in English at 11 a. m.and at 8 p. m. in German. All are welcome at the services. Until further notice the Sunday School will meet at 3 o'clock. REV. SAM JONES. Pungent Hits in Sis Morning Sermon. Your Bible don't tell vou to pray in your family. I don't tell my boy to open his mouth to eat. He-just bends his elbow, and his jaw being in the same angle of double-back-action, his mouth flies open. A heap of people have got religion like Peter Cartwright had holiness in spots. Many a man would be a better man if he had a better wife. A man and wife were quarrelling at the table. She threw a cherry tart at his head and hit the motto over the door "God bless our home." One of the little boys said; "Mamma missed papa's head, but she give the motto ginger, didn't she?" Every woman can start family prayer; but some of your husbands would think something brand new had struck you if you proposed it. There sits a woman with her nose turned up at me saying, "I just can't stand him;" and I'm trying to pull her besotted husband out of the mud. The only thing the newspapers, or anybody ever said about me that I cared for is, that I am low-bred. It's a lie. There never was a purer, sweeter Christian woman than my mother, nor a nobler, truer, better man than my sainted father. See a girl out there with her nose turned up at me. The devil has got a mortgage on that nose, and he's going to foreclose it and get the whole with it. A young man a church member in this town came to my room the other day and said, "Mr. Jones, I've said awful things about you, and cursed you; but I'm sorry for it, andhave come to ask you to pray for me." How a church member can curse a preacher is a mystery to me. The South Carolina Bice Crop. The Charleston News and Courier says: The reports received in the city yesterday from the rice plantations con firm in every detail the news of the ruin of the crop by the ' recent rains. The planters are much distressed, and justly so, remarked a broker yesterday. iXG TABERNACLE MEETINGS. YESTERDAY'S SERMONS BY REV. SAM. P. JONES. Thousands of People Still Flock to the Gatherings and Increasing Interest Man ifested. YESTERDAY MORNING'S SERMON. Another large crowd at the Taberna cle under the direction and leadership of Prof. Excell, filled up the half -hour of "Song Service" with sweet music. But little mention has been made in the reports of the music, which has been an important feature of the meeting. The songs learned there will ring out and give hours of pleasure to many hearts long after these meetings have closed.. Prof. Excell deserves the highest praise for the admirable manner in which he has led and taught the thousands of hear ers, and the thanks of the community for having introduced into their homes such sweet gospel songs. Singing for Jesus is noble work. Mr. Jones took for his text one of the shortest verses in' the Bible: "Pray without ceasing." 1st Thess, 5th chap ter, 17th verse. Prayer, he said, is simply communion with God. Were you to ask me what is the -life-perpetuating power in a tree I would say the circulation of the sap. If asked to demonstrate that statement I would, with an axe, cut around deep into the tree and interfere with that circu lation and the tree would die. If I w.ere asked what is the life-perpetuating po w" er in a horse, I would say the circula - tion of the blood in his veins; to demon strate that I would cut his jugular vein and the horse would die, If I were asked -what is the life-perpetuating power in the soul, I would say, communion with God. Of all the duties and privileges of a Christian none is worth so much to a man as prayer. The Scriptures tell us to "pray all prayer," that is, all kinds of prayer secret, public, ejaculatory, fam ily, etc. The man who prays anywhere will pray everywhere if called on. If a man lives upright and pays his debts he has the esteem of his fellow man; but let him be whatever else he will, if he does not pay his honest debts nobody has any use for him. Duty means, etymo logically, d-u-e-s-t-y. Ask a Mason or an Odd Fellow what dues are and he will tell you, "Something I owe, some thing due, and something I must pay oir be turned out." A Christian's duty is something he owes to God; that is now due and he must pay or do worse. Christian father, is it your duty to pray in your family? If you can take the negative side and be honest you're safe. God has made spedfal provision for a man who hasn't sense enough to be religious. Every father in this audi ence who reads the Bible and prays with his family at least once a day stand up. Twenty, besides the preachers! I could go to Soo Chow, China, among the professed Christians, and get a bet ter showing than that. How many members in your church. Bro. Creasy, who pray in their families? Bro. Creasy replied, "I don't know." How many in yours, Bro. Beaman? "About fif teen." How many in yours, Bro. Prim rose? "Eight." Well, Bro, Creasy, I must conclude your members either have no religion or no pastor to "instruct them; I was going to ask your people to raise your salary, but I expect you're getting all you're worth. A good idea is for pastors to take stock annually, like a wise merchant does. In a pastorate of eight years I cannot remember a single man who did not pray in his family in whose religion I had any confidence. It takes more re ligion to make a man pray than to take him to heaven. It takes more steam to take an engine from here to Petersburg than to Weidon, and how you can make any progress without praying in your families is a mystery to me. Bro. Burns, an Irish laborer, said "I've no toime to pray; the Bible says he that provideth not for his own house hold is worse than an infidel." I said, do you provide religion for them? He said, "Yes, the Bible lays on the table all the time." 1 said, "Very likely it does all the time." I said, "Do you gather your corn and tell your children to take an ear when they are hungry?" He said, "No; Ishell it,.have it ground. and wife bakes it." I said, "Then take that Bible, shell it off with your reason, grind it with your experience, and bake it in a warm heart, and give it to your family. I said once I wouldn't take a man in my church that wouldn't pray in his family, publicly or anywhere. A lead ing merchant told me I shut the door in his face; he couldn't do all that. said what kind of Christian do you want to be? like Bro. Green, who won't pray or pay, or like Bro. Johnson, who- will occasionally work when warmed up by a revival, or like Bro. Watts, who is a steward, and prays and works anywhere? He said like Bro. Watts. I said, no; you want to live like Green and be like Watts. Some women never go to prayer meeting until they are so old they can't, and then say, "I'd give anything if I could go to prayer meeting." Bless your soul why don't you rack out now. A wicked fellow got sick and sent for the preachers and made all sorts of promises to God if He would spare his life. He recovered, and was as wicked . as ever. When reminded of his promr ises, he skid : "A fellow will promise most anything when he is sick as I was." There is too much of that. A dying boy said to his father, -'bury me on the path to the horse lot and every time you pass say, there is my poor, lost boy, who never heard me pray." I may be talking to fathers now with children in hell, who never heard them pray. I don't want to leave any duty unperformed, whereby I can make my children better. I heard Christians say before I,was converted that praying, visiting the sick, and going to prayer meeting helped them, and when I was converted I said I'll do these things; I need all the help I can get, Church members have got enough religion of the kind, but they need com mon sense, and that is the most uncom mon thing in America. When my wife handed me the Bible the night after I joined the church, I didn't know what to do. I took it, read and prayed, and that night a Methodist preacher was born. If I had refused I would have been an old back slider like you. I don't see how you can respect yourself as. a Christian when you neglect your plainest duty. You say your Bible don't tell you to pray in your family. Neither does it tell you to put on your shirt. There are some duties so plain that it would look like child's play for God to tell you. Not one church member in ten would fail to fall in line if his wife persisted in family worship. Home life has got to be regulated for family prayer; if the wife gets up cross, and begins to spank the children before breakfast, prayer won't fit in, and you will never regulate home until you get where prayer is in the natural order of things. You must have a family altar if you perpetuate piety. Your children go to church and Sunday school and are pulled down to destruction by home life. Cards, balls and theatres won't mix with family prayer. A church partakes of the life of its in dividual members. I don't know what you want with more members. If you thought I was going to duplicate those you have you wouldn't want me here. Some say: "Sam Jones' converts won't stick." I don't know whose converts these you have are, but if the ones I make don't average up with them, I'm sorry for the lot. If you've only tried to pray once or twice it won't do; you couldn't walk or talkointil you kept trying. God intends you shall develop. Secret prayer: If you can't live right with three prayers a day, pray six; if that is not enough do as the text says, "Pray without ceasing." How can you sit down at your table and eat the bounty God has given you and ask no blessing nsr return thanks ? You turn up your nose at me, but you had better puff and blow over your own hoggishness. Turn up your nose at Sam Jones ! You'd better turn it up at some things in town that are a disgrace to civ ilization. Find me a preacher in this town kick ing against me and I'll show you one who has covered up the devil in his church, housed men who sell and drink liquor and rent houses to saloon keepers. Dr. Young, of Nashville, had been a steward thirteen years, and one morning in bed he got to thinking. He said I have been a Methodist 17 years and a steward 13 years and never yet tried to live one day for God. He got on his knees and promised the Lord if. He would spare him until sundown he would put in one day for him. He call ed the family together and had family prayer, went to his store and spoke kindly to everybody, came to dinner bright and cherry, (I expect he had chicken for dinner and when he had helped the children only the neck and back were in the dish.) I can tell a man by the way he helps his children at the table. If you take the breast and give your child the neck you ain't right. I always want my children to have the best I've got; and some of all I've got, and the onlv thing I've got is religion It will change you when you get it. He told his wife to fix a waiter of good things for a sick man, took it to him, prayed with him, came home and spent the evening with his family, had family prayers and retired. His two boys slept in an adjoining room. He heard Jim say, "Tom, the old man is go ing to die." Tom said, "Why?" Jim replied, "He's got pious all at once." If some of you were to live pious twenty four hours your children would nudge each other and say; "The old folks are going to die." JJGive me a man whose wife has confi dence in his religion, and children who have confidence in their parents' relig ion God has put up with some of you as long as he can; you will have to get out of the way o your children. Every man or woman in the audience TAR WHOLE NO. 7.493 who will say"By the grace of God I'll pray in my family and live more re ligious in my home," give me your hand. In response to this invitation hun dreds came forward. THE NIGHT SERMON. There were about six thousand peo ple at the Tabernacle last night. There will be at 9 a. m. to-day an ex perience meeting in the building. Those who desire to attend must be on hand promptly, as the doors will be closed so as to prevent those participating from being disturbed, - This meeting is in ad dition to that at 10.30 a. m. There will also be a special meeting for men at 3 p. m. Railroad men are especially invited to attend these ser vices. Mr. Jones announced that the night service would probably close the meet ing. During the song service, the colored people rendered with telling effect, led by Prof. Excell, "When the general roll is called I'll be there." Mr. Jones said that it was a grand thing to listen to such music. 'T never could sing, though I used to be a tune- hister' on my circuit. I used to sing bur different tunes to every verse; used to change the tune at every line. I tell you it takes a musician to do that." Prof. Excell sung the solo entitled The Old Ship of Zion." Mr. Jones said that he intended to talk rather than preach to-night. Some of you fellows have been saying that I am not fit to preach from a pulpit. Bless you, I seldom go in one; they are not arge enough. A preacher must have a text, and I take as mine, "The wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eter nal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." There are two questions which inevita bly arise between employer and em ploye. If you seek to employ a man, he always asks, "What kind of work do you want me to do ?" and that being satisfac torily answered, there is another, "What will you pay me for it?" There can be no intelligent contract of labor entered into without the settling of these ques tions. Some of you boast that you never sustained the relation of servant. That may be so in one respect; yet there is an important and fearful sense in which all men are servants. Whose servant am I ? In reply, some will say that they are neutral neither servants of God or the Devil. Our Saviour teaches us that no man can serve two masters. If you are not witn God you are against him. There can be no neutral ground. Talk about your moral man; the fellow who is not quite good enough to go to heaven, nor yet quite bad enough to go to hell. He is nothing but a white-washed rascal. These fellows stay out of the church, do their duty toward man, probably, but neglect God. Do you know the differ ence between a whitewashed man and a fellow that is washed white? In the latter case he is clean forever, while in the former you have to keep putting it on every few days because it will peel off. Christianity and morality are insepar able. All that law and moral precepts can do is to reveal man's imperfections. But you need something else to remove them. Sin is like a cancer. Local ap plications may cure the sore in one place rbut unless eradicated from the system by a blood purifier it will break out in another place. Do not think that because you cured the sin on your tongue profanity that you have de stroyed all the virus. It will break out on your hand and you will steal, y ou must entirely eradicate it. Talk about being a pretty good fellow, Your trouble is ignorance, and when ignor ance is voluntary it is a crime. What do you want to be a fool for when kero sene is only fifteen cents a gallon and you can buy books at ten cents apiece. You say, "Well I am a Christian but I don't belong to the Church." You are like those cowardly rebels who were the worse secessionists but never went to the front to maintain their opinions. I tell you that if we had had all of the able-bodied men in the South at the front we would have been sitting up with those bovs now. I would not give a flip for a fellow that does not join a regiment of Jesus Christ, and do his duty. "Don't belong to the Church but I am a Christian nevertheless." When you See a fellow like that coming around lock up your things. You give us as an excuse that you do not join the Church because there are too many hypocrites in it in your way. Did it ever occur to you that a fellow can't get in your way when he is ahead of you? Dou you see the point? If I was in that fix I would keep my mouth shut and not give myself away Of course there are members of the church who are not leading the lives they should, but I believe there are few that do not desire to be good.' We church members are in the field plowing and hoeing while you old sinners sit up on the fence in the shade and criticize us because we cannot do our work and your's too. You ought to get off that fence and help us, you old lazy devil The church is a fence to keep the devil off of you; get inside and work. Some of you in the church let down the bars ; KATES OF ADVERTISING. ....... g One Square One Day ......$ 1 00 " " Two Days , . 1 75 " " Three Days 2 50 " Four Day. 8 00 " " Five Days 8 60 One Week . 4 00 " " Two Weeks 6 60 " " Three Waeks 8 60 " " One Month ,. 10 00 " " Two Months 18 00 " " Three Months 24 00 " " Six Months 40 00 " 41 One Year ; CO 00 I3?- Contract Advertisements taken at proportion ately low rates. Ten lines solid Nonpareil type make one square. and don t replace them going to card parties, theatres and dances, and the devil slips in on us. When you begin to dilly-dally and waver about religion the devil puts you down on his side. I often think of the story of that poor girl at the dance who dropped dead, and the devil came immediately and carried off her soul, but in a few moments St, Peter came, running up and said: "Where's the soul of thrt girl gone ?" and somebody said: "The devil has taken it off." St. Peter rushed off at a double-quick and overtook the devil. "Hold on," he said. "What's the matter," said said the devil. "You haye got a church member's soul there, and you have no right tp it." "Well," said the devil, "you can take it if you want to, but she died so far in my territory that I thought it was mine." My doctrine is that a Christian ought not to go so far that if he dies he will be on the devil's territory. Do you live in Christ, keep the commandments and obey the precepts of the law? ' If you do not, then will you go to the devil and ask him what work he has for you to do, and what he will pay you for doing it? The devil wants you to live in sin, and for doing so he will pay you with the deepest despair and misery. What does it pay, is the great question. God wants you to be charitable, honest, upright and good, and if you are so true, He will pay you cash enough to iive on in this world and give you the ioys and pleas ures of heaven in the world to come. If the devil pays with despair and misery, and God with happiness here and eternal joy hereafter, I would like to know how it is that the devil has one servant on earth? I am trying to get up a strike on the devil. If you were working in a factory under a boss as mean as the devil is, you would strike in five minutes, and not only would not work for him yourself, you would take a stick and keep any one else from doing so. I am for the under dog in the fight. If you want to find Sam Jones, scratch under the bottom dog and you will find him. If you do not he has only gone for a few minutes to his dinner. , Wat is the matter? Here I have been trying for eight days to get you people to strike and I have succeeded with only about eight hundred. You must be fools. Some of you object to the use of that term, but bless you, what is the use of a fellow having a name if you don't call him by it ? I want to get up a strike on the devil and get every man to say, "I have worked for that boss and I don't like him, and I shan't work for him, and if any one else tries to I will knock them down. 'The dog shall return to his vomit.' That means the fellow that gets in the church and then returns to the wicked ness he forsook. Don't you go away from here and say that I have been using slang. You fool, you, I was quoting the Bible. Christ called men by the names of the animals they most resembled. When I call a fellow a skunk of hell I mean a fellow that is odorous when you touch him. Bless you, my illustrations are not elegant sometimes, but they just illustrate, and that is all the use I have for them. I adopt my working implements to the fellow I am working on. I want to get the devil out of you; my honest purpose is to pull you out of those deep, bad places, andbless you, brother, I can't get you out any other way. Look at it like a man. If God offers pardon and peace, say I will be a Christian the rest of my life. I desire every young man, everyfather, mother, and every good citizen to say, T have struck my last lick for the devil. The end will soon be here. Pay day is com ing, when your wages will be counted to you to the last cent. A man near my church, whose life had been spent in sin, was dying. And such a death ! Tprtured with the visions of the demons of hell waiting to seize and drag him away, he died in agony cringing before the fantastic creations of his own fancy. Turn to another picture the death bed of a pure, sweet woman, whose pas tor I was. She had been afraid af death, but having in a dream wandered to the Elysian shore, when death's dark angel folded her in his arm and swept out into eternity, she died as happy as any I ever saw. A few weeks later her little daugh ter lay dying. The doctors came to cauterize her throat, but she told them that it was no use. "Mama is calling me, and III soon be with her." The lit- tie girls of her Sunday school came to see her and they began to sing, "We shall gather at the river." As the words of the song floated out on the air, the little waxen fingers became cold. Ere the chorus was finished death had kissed the ljttle eyelids down in an eternal sleep, and drawn about the little frail form, the dreamless drapery of an endless rest, and little Annie's spirit had gone to God, to meet her sainted mother beyond the river. Well might the old prophet say, "Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my end be like his." 'The gift of God is eternal life, and if I had a thousand lives I would give them to him. God help you to do the same.
Wilmington Morning Star (Wilmington, N.C.)
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Oct. 5, 1890, edition 1
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