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u Central Times. H DR. J. H. DANIEL. Editor and Proprietor. PROVE ALL THINGS. AND HOLD FAST TO THAT WHICH IS GOOD. 1.00 Per Year. In Advance YOL. rv T DUNN, HARNETT CO., THURSDAY MARCH 22 1894. NO. 4. DIRECTORY, Town Oeficers Mayor. E. A. P ir kei. Coiiuni.syioiier.. J. II. Pope, J. C. Cox, i. T. Masseigill, F. T. Moore. AUornej, F. P. Jones. Marshal. M. L. Wade. CIiureliH. MrTHomsTRpv. Geo. T. Simmons, Pastor rorvlce at 7 p. m. every First Sunday, and 11 a. m. and 7 i. ni. every Fourth Sunday, l'rayer meeting' every Wednesday night at 7 o'clock. .Hunday school every Sunday morning at 10 o'clock, (J. K. Urantnam Superintendant. Meeting of Sunday-Hchool Missionary So ciety every 4th. Sunday afternoon. Younff Men's Prayer-meeting every Mon day night. PkkbSbyteriax I?ev. A.M Ilassell, Pastor. Services every First and Fifth .Sunday at 11 a. in. and 7 i, in. Sunday school every Sunday evening at. ::-) o'clock, Ir, J, H.Daniel, Suvereudnt. PiscirLF.s Rev. J. J. Harper. Pastor. Services every Third Sunday, at 11 a. m. and 7 p. in. Sunday school every Sunday at 2 o'clock, Prof. VV. C. Williams, superintendant. Prayer meeting every Thursday night at 7 o'clock. Missionary Baptist Rev. N. B. Cobb, D. D. Pastor. Services every Second Sunday at 11 a. in. and 7 r- m. Sunday school every Sunday mrrning at 10 o'clock, K. 1. Taylor, Superiuteudaut. Prayer ineetioug every Thursday night at l:'M) o'clock. Fbee-Will Bai-tist Rev. J. H. Worley, Pastor. Services every Fourth Sunday at 11 a. in. Sunday sdhool every Sunday evening at 3 o'clock. Erasmus Lee Superintendant. Phimative BAptist Elder Burnice Wood Pastor Services every Third Sunday at 11a. m. and Saturday before the Third Sunday at 11 a.iii EE J. BEbT. ATTORNEY AT LAW. DUNN. N. C. Practice in all the Courts. Prompt attention to all business. J 25 I y A NEW LAW HUM. D. 11. McLean and J. A. Farmer nave thi9 day associated themselves together in the practice tf law in all the courts of the State. Collections and general practice solicited. D. H. McLean, of Lillington, N. C J. A. Farmer, of Dunn, N, C. May-!K93. nil. J. II DANIEL. I) DUNNY HARNETT CO. N C. Practice confined to the disease of Cancer. Positively will not visit patients at n distance. A pamphlet On Can:er, Its Treat me nt and Cure, will be mailed to any address tree of c arge. W. E. UDRCHISON, ATTORNEY-ATLAW Will Practice in all the surround ing counties. JONESBORO. N, C. April-Sl-9i. MILLINERY 11 AVE YOU EXAM EN ED THE BARGAINS AaISS MCKAY IS OFFERING IN LADIE'S, .MISSI'S AND CHIL DREN'S HATS? SHE ALSO MAS ON HAND A BEAUTIFUL LINE OF VEILING. LADIES AND.MISSES CORSETS. INFANTS AND CHILDREN'S CAPS, MERINE VESTS. HOSIE HY, GLOVES AND MANY OTIN KU THINGS TOO NEUMEROUS to mention. and ali at "kr usual low prices, satisfaction GUARANTEED J IS UNAPPRECIATED ACTS. ttev. Dr. Talmape Talks Upon Ay parcntly Trivial Things fbwt Freqnently Lead to Great Rcn!ta Tbe Conversion of Paul nt the Menu Utted In It AccomplUb' uient Other InatMnee. While absent on a visit to the south R-v. T. DeWitt Talmage made selpc tion of sermons to be sent out to hia great congregation throughout the world of newspaper reader's. The fol lowing discourse is based on the text: Through a window In a banket I was lei down by the wall. 1 1 Corinthians, xi.. 33. Damascus is a city of white and glis tening architecture sometimes called "the eye of the east," -sometimes a pearl surrounded by emeralds,' at one time distinguished for swords of the best material called Damascus blades, and upholstery of richest fabric called damasks. A horseman called by the name of Paul, riding towaru this city, had been thrown from the saddle. The horse had dropped under a flash from tne slcy, which at the same time wasso bright it blinded the rider for many days, and I think so permanently in jured his eyesight that this defect of vision became the thorn in the flesh he afterward speaks of. He started for Damascus to butcher Christians, but after that hard fall from bin horse he was a changed man and preached Christ in Damascus till the city was shaken to its foundation. The mayor gives authority for his ar rest, and the popular cry is: ''Kill him! Kill him!" The city is surrounded by a high wall, and the gates are watched by the police lest the Cilician preacher escape. Many of the houses are built ju the wall, and their balconies pro jected clear over and hovered above the gardens outside. It was custom ary to lower baskets out of these bal conies and pull up fruits and flowers from the gardens. To this day vis itors at the monastery of Mount Sinai are lifted and let down in bas kets. Detectives prowled around from house- to house looking for Paul, but his friends hid him now in sne place, now in another. lie is no toward, as fifty incidents in his life demonstrate, But he feels his work is not done yet, and so. he evades assas sination. "Is that preacher here?" the foaming mob shout at one house door. Is that fanatic here?" the po lice shout at another house door. Some times on the street incognito he passes through a crowd of clinched fists, and sometimes he secretes himself on the house-top. At last the infuri ated populace get on sure track of him. I'hey have positive evidence that he is m the house of one of the Christians.'thc balcony of whose home reaches over the wall. "Here he is! Here he is!" The vociferation and blasphemy and howling of the pursuers are at the front door. They break in. "Fetch out that gospelizer. nnd let us hang his head on the city gate. Where is tie?" The emergency was terrible. Providentially there was a good itout basket in the house. Paul's friends fasten a rope to the basket. Paul steps into it. The basket is lifted to the edge of the balcony on the cvall. and then while Paul holds on to the rope with both hands his friends lower away, carefully and cautiously, ilowly but surely, further down and further down, until the basket strikes the earth .and the apostle steps out, and afoot and alone starts on that fa mous missionary tour, the story of which has astonished eartli and Heav en. Appropriate entry in Paul's diary Df travels: '"Through a window in a basket was I let down bv the wall." Observe, first, on what a slender ten are great results hang. The rope maker who twisted that cord fastened to that lowering basket never knew how much would depend on the strength of it. How if it had been broken and the apostle's life had been dashed out? What would have become Df the Christian church? All that mag nificent missionary work in Pamphylia. C'appadocia, Galatia, Macedonia would never have been accomplished. All his writings that make up so indis pensable and enchanting a part of the New Testament would never hare been written. The story of resurrec tion would never have been so glori ously told as he told it. The example of heroic and triumphant endurance at Philippi, in the Mediterranean enro clydou, under flagellations and at his beheading would not have kindled the courage of ten thousand martyrdoms. But the rope holding that basket, how much depended on it! So again and again great results have hung on what seemed slender circumstances. Did ever ship of many thousand ton crossing the sea have such important passenger as had a boat of leaves, from taffrail to stern only three or four feet, the vessel made waterproof by a coat of bitumen and floating on the Nile with the infant lawmaker of tne Jews on ooara? rvnat ix some crocodile should crunch it? What if some of the cattle wading in. for a drink should sink it? Vessels of war sometimes carry forty guns looking through, the portholes, ready to open battle. But that tiny craft on the Nile seems to be armed with all the guns of thunder that bombarded Sinai at tha law-giving. On how fragile craft sailed bow much of his torical importance. The parsonage at Epworth, England, is on fire in the nlgh and the father rushes through the hallway for the res cue of his children. Seven children are out and safe on the grounds, but one remains in the consuming build ing. That one wakes, and finding his bed ou fire and the building crum bling, comes to the window, and two peasants make a ladder of their bodies, one peasant standing on the shoulders of the other, and down the human lad der the boy descended John Wesley. If you would know how much depend ed on that ladder of peasants ask the millions of Methodists on both sides of the sea. Ask their mission stations all round the world. Ask the hundreds of thousands already ascended to join their founder, who would have per ished but for the living stair of peas ants' shoulders. An English ship stopped at Pitcairn island, and, right in the midst of sur rounding cannibalism and squalor, the passengers discovered a Christian col ony of churches and schools and beau tiful homes and highest style of re ligion and civilization. . For fifty years no missionaary and no Christian influ ence had landed there. Why this oasis of light amid a desert of heathendom? Sixty years before -a ship had met disaster and one of the sailors, unable to save anything else, went to his trunk and took out a Bible which his mother had placed j there, and swam ashore, the Bible held in his teeth. The book was read on all sides uutil the rough and vicious population were evangelized, and a church was started, and an enlight ened commonwealth established, and the world's history has no more bril liant page than that' which tells of th transformation of a nation by one book. x I t did not seem of much impor tance whether the sailor continued to hold the book in his teeth or let it fall in the breakers, but upon what small circumstance depended what mighty results. Practical inference: There are no insignificances in our lives. The mi nutest thing is part of a magnitude. In finity is made up of Infinitesimals. Great things an aggregation of small things, Bethlehem manager pulling on a star in the eastet n sky. One book in a drenched sailor's mouth the evan gelization of a multitude. One boat of pap3rrus on the Nile freighted with events for all ages. The fate of Chris tendom in a basket let down from a window on the wall. What you do, do welf. If you make a rope make it strong and true, for you know not now mucli may aepena on your workmanship. If you fashion a boat let it be water-proof, for you know not who may sail in it. If you put a Bible in the trunk of your boy as he goes from home, let it be heard in your prayers, for it may have a mis sion as far-reaching as the book which the sailor carried in his teeth to the Pitcairn beach. The plainest man's life is an island between! two eterni ties eternity past rippling against his shoulders, eternity to come touching his brow. The casual, the accidental, that which merely happened so, are parts of a great plan, and the rope that lets the fugitive apostle from the Damascus wall is the cable that holds to its mooring the ship of the church in the northeast storm of the centuries. Again notice unrecognized and un recorded services. Who spnn that rope? Who tied it to the basket? Who steadied the illustrious preacher as he stepped into it? Who relaxed not a muscle of the arm or dismissed an anxious look from his face until the basket touched the ground and dis charged its magnificent cargo? Not one of their names has come to us, but there was no work done that day in Darouicus nor in all the earth com pared with the importance of their work. What if they had in their agitation tied a knot that could slip? What, if the sound of the mob at the door had VhI them to say: "I'aul must take care of himself, and we will take care of ourselves." No. no! They held the rope, and in doing so did more for the Christian church than any thousand of ns will ever accomplish. Bat God knows and has made eternal record ""of" their undertaking. And they know. How exultant they must have felt when thev read His letters to the Romans, to the Corinthians, to the Galatians, to the Ephesians. to the Philippian to the Colnssians. to the TheSsalonians, to Timothy, to Titus, to Philemon, to the Hebrews, and when they heard how he walked out of prison with the earthouake unlocking the door for him. and took command of the Alexan drian corn-ship when the sailors were nearly scared to death, and preached a sermou that nearly shook Felix off his judgment seat. I hear the men and women who helped him down through the window and over the wall talking in private over the matter, and saying: "How glad I am that we have effected that rescue! In coming times others may get the glory of Paul's work, but no one shall rob us of the satisfaction of knowing that we held the rope." There are said to be about sixty-nine thousand ministers of religion in this country. About "fifty thousand I war rant came from early homes which had to struggle for the necessaries of life. The sons of rich bankers and mer chants generally become bankers and merchants. The most of those who become ministers are the sons of those who had terrific struggle to get their everyday bread. The collegiate and theological education of that son took every luxury from the parental table for - eight years. The other children were more scantily apparelled. The son at college every little while gAt a bundle from home. In it were the socks that mother had knit, sitting up late at night, her sight not as good as once it was. And there also were some delicacies from the sis ter's hand for the voracious appetite of a hungry student. The years go by, and the son has been ordained and is preaching tlie glorious Gospel, and a great revival comes, and souls by scores and hun dreds accept the Gospel from the lips of the young preacher, and father and mother, quite old now, are visiting the son of the village parsonage, and at the close of a Sabbath of mighty blessing father and mother retire to their room, the son lighting and asking them if he can thing to " make them more able, saying if they want the way do any-Comfort-anything in the night just to the wall. And then knock on all alone father and mother talk over the gracious influence of the day, and say: "Well, it was worth all we went through to educate that boy! It was a hard pull, but we held on till the work was done. The world may not know it, but, mother, we held the rope, didn't we?" And the voice, tremulous with joyful emotion, responds: "Yes, father; we held the rope. I feel iriy work ii done. Now, Lord, lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, for mine eyes have seen Thy salvation." "Pshaw!" says the father, "I never felt so much like living in my life as now. I want to see what that fellow is going on to do. he has begun so well." Once for thirty-six hours we expect ed every moment to go to the bottom of the ocean. The waves struck through the skylights and rushed down into the hold of the ship and hissed against the boilers. It was an awful time; but by the blessing of God and the faithful ness of the man in charge we came out of the cyclone and we arrived at home. Each one before leaving the ship thanked Capt. Andrews. I do not think there was a man or woman went off that ship without thanking Capt. Andrews, and when, years after, I heard of his death, I was impeled to write a letter of condolence to his fam ily in Liverpool. Everybody recognized the goodness, the courage, the kind ness of Capt. Andrews, but it occurs to me now that we never thanked the en- gineer. He stood away down in the darkness amid the hissing furnaces do ing his whole duty. Nobody thanked tbe engineer, but God recognized his heroism and his continuance and his fidelity, and there will be just as high reward for the engineer who worked out of sight, as the captain who stood on the bridge of the ship in the midst of the howling tempest. Come, let us go right up and accost those on this circle of heavenly thrones. Surely they must have killed in battle a million men. Surely they must have been buried with all the cathedrals sounding a dirge and all the towers of all the cities tolling the national grief. Who art Thou, mighty one of Heaven? "I lived by choice the unmarried daughter in a humble home that I might take care of ray parents in their old age. anil I endured without com plaints all their querulousne&s and ministered to all their wants for twenty rears." Let us pass on round the circle of thrones. Who art thou, mighty one of Heaven? "I was for thirty years a Christian invalid, and suffered all the while, occasionally writing a note of sympathy for tho worse off than I. and was general confidant of all those who had trouble, and once in awhile I was strong enough to make a garment for that poor family in the back lane." Pass on to another throne. Who art thou, mighty one of Heaven? I vas the mother who raised a whole family of children for God. ami they are out in the. world. Christian mer chants. Christian mechanics Christian wives, and I hare had full rewared of all mv toiL" Let us rass on in the circle of thrones. "I hart a Sabbath school class, nnd they were always on my heart, and hey all entered the kingdom of God, and I am waiting for their arrival." But who art thou, the mighty one of Heaven on this other throne? 'In time of bitter persecution I owned a house In Damascus, a house on the wall. A man jvho preached Christ was hcunded from street to street, and I hid him from the assassirs, and when I found them breaking In my houe, and I I could no longer keep him safely, I ad- visea nun to lice lor his life, add a basket 'was-let down over the wall with the maltreated man In it, and I was one who helped hold the rope." And I said: "Is that all?" and he an swered: "That is all." And while I was lost in amazement, I heard a strong voice that sounded as though it might once have been hoarse from many ex posures and triumphant as though it might have belonged to one of the martyrs, and it said: "Not many mighty, not many noble are called, but God hath chosen the weak thinsrs of the world to confound the things which are mighty, and base things of the world and things which are despised hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to naught things which are, that no flesh should glory in His presence." And I looked to see from whence the voice came, and lo! it was the very one who had said: "Through a window in a basket was I let d own b3' the wall." Henceforth think of nothing as in significant. A little thing may decide your all. A Cunarder put out from England for New York. It was well equipped, but in putting up a stove in the pilot box a nail was driven too near the compass. You know -how that nail would affect the com pass. The ship' officer, deceived by that distracted compass, put the Jiip two hundred miles off her right course, and suddenly the man on the lookout cried: "Land, ho!" and the ship was halted within a few yanls of .her demolition on Nantucket shoals. A six-penny nail came near wrecking a Cunarder. Small ropes hold mighty destinies. - - A minister seated in Boston at his table, lacking a word he puts his hand behind his head and tilts back his chair to think, nnd the ceiling falls and crushes the table and would have crushed him. A minister in Jamaica at night by the light of an insect, called the candle-fly.is kept from steppingovcr a precipice a hundred feet- F. W. Rob ertson, the celebrated English clergy man, said that he entered tho ministry from a train of circumstances started by the barking of a dog. Had the wind blown one way, on a certain day, the Spanish inquisition would have been established in England; but it blew the other way, and that dropped the accursed institution, with seventy-flvc thousand tons of shipping, to the bot tom of the sea, or flung the splintered logs on the rocks. Nothing unimportant in your Mfe or mine. Three ciphers placed on the right side of the figure "1" to make a thousand, and six ciphers on the right side of the figure l" a million, ami our nothingness placed on the right side may be augmentation illimitable. All the ages of time and eternity af fected by the basket let down from a Damascus balcony! The Bible, as a whole, is the best treatise on sound and successful busi ness principles and practice that can be consulted by anyone. Two students of Princeton Col lege were lately fined $50 for ill-treating a Chinaman. Wkat spoils the good eirect of this action is the in compiehensible remarks of the judge when the students were brought, tw fore biru. He objected to the Neon federation of such cases, and 'said that the college authorities ought to have punished the students without calling in the aid of the law. It in just tins idea that college students are not like other citizens amenable to civil laws that has been a prolific source of demoralization in cities Nobody where colleges are found. should be above obedience to law and nohodyt8hould be beneath its pro tecting shield. The physicians of Brustels have re centlv banded themselves into a onion, pledged to reUt any attempt to cheaieii their scale of renumera tion. and have bound themely- not to accept any fee below a certain fixed sum. They have been led to take this course "by a circular ruU dreised lo them by several indus. trial unions, informing item that physicians who would give medical Bllendance aJHiie rate ol 3U cenlh vuit wonld be ixclosively ca'led lu bv sick members of :he trades unions. V
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