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- - - - , - - . . 5- J ,. - . -4 r? V,. 4' , ..il VOL, III. LUMBERTON, N. C, NOVEMBER 13, 1902. NO. 12. WHOLE NO. 197. ""Sirs', FMB ECHOES BF THE ELECTION The Republicans Will t Control the Fifty-eighth Congress., . ODELL RE-ELECTED IN NEW YORK Tho Republican Candidate For Governor is Btorned by a Small Plurality Ee ynbltcans Make Gains in the West and Democrats in the East rennypucker v Chosen in Pennsylvania. "Washington, D. C. More complete returns from the Congress elections show that.the Republicans have elected 210 members of the House of Repre sentatives in the Fifty-eighth Congress and the Democrats, 176, giving the Re publicans a majority of 34. The of ficial count in some of the elose dis tricts may change these figures slight ly, as there are about ten districts which are very, close. Some of these which now seem to be carried by the Republicans may be given to the Dem ocrats by the official returns, and oth ers which seem to be Democratic may Jbe Republican. In the estimates given above six of these districts have been given to the Democrats and four to the Republicans. If : the Democrats should carry all of these, the Repub licans would still have 206 a majority of 20. Republican politicians are already discussing the organization of the new House of Representatives, although, unless the President should call an ex tfa session for some reason, ft will be more than a year before the newly elected House is organized. Not only must a new Speaker be elected, but there must be a general rearrangement of committee places as a result of the changes in the membership of the House. For the Speakership the names under discussion are those of Represen tative Cannon, of Illinois; Dalzell, of fOt 171 VNCLZ! SAM: H E Pennsylvania; Fayne aiid Sherman, of New .ork, and Littielield, of Maine. 'According to ail indications, however, Mr. If annou is likely to be chosen Speaker. The Republicans, when the successors of the thirty United States Senators whose terms expire on the 4th of March next, have been all elected, will retain their strong hold unon the Senate. . Republican. -gains; in' the "West and Democratic gains in the East, with a few exceptions in both instances, mark the latest returns from the election throughout .the United States. The Democrats claim gains in States where for years they had no Congres sional representation. ' Democratic vic tories more pronounced than ever are indicated in the South, the' Republicans appearing to have. filled only, five, ' or possibly six, of the; 125 seats held, by the thirteen Southern States, i In"New York the latest returns in dicate that Governor Odell has been re-elected by a plurality considerably smaller than the one by which Roose velt was chosen Governor. The rest of the candidates on the Republican f.-tate tielcet have also been' elected, "With two exceptions. , John Cunncen, the Democratic car.dldaf? for Attorney General, who also had the Indorsement of the Prohibition party, is probably elected by asmall plurality, and Judge Gray, the Democratic candidate for the Court of Appeals, defeated .Tudge Wil liam E. Werner, the Republican candi date for that ofjce. The Republicans suffered losses of seats in the Lesrisla: ture, principally hi New York "citv. Where the Democrats -pcdled an unusual plurality for Bird s. Coler. their can didate for Governor. The Renublicnn "THANK majority on. joint ballot will be amply i of Mrsl Helen GrenfelL Democrat, for sufficient to elect a Republican as Sen-1 Superintendent of Public Schools, ator Piatt s , Successor m the .United i Washington, gave, Republican ma States Senate. ; In the state twenty- j joiity of about 12,000, vThe Republicans two Republican .ind fifteen Democratic will control the Legislature, which in Congressmen wero fleeted. ' Rwes" rfPrtlon of ; a Benubllran i eT,?CT8fy;e;y emocrats made tinted States Senator; f - ' gains adding to the legislature three j . Montana elected a centreing Re senators and eisrht Assemblymen. Thl rniititn.- senators and eight jAssembiymen. Th Republicans wijl control .the. Legisla ture by a majority of thirty-three on joint ballot The .Republicans elected seven Congrcssiienaud tli? Democrats tiiree. a; . chusetts cast the largest vote-eyer re- jcorcled for Goyevnov, ths totalrlaching1 Senators Son" Under Arrestr 1 Charles W. Clark, son of "United States Senator W- A.fClark; George H. Cleasey, Chairman of the Democratic County Central Committee, and C. E. sop, D emocratlc .candidate for Rep resentative in -the Stated Legislature, find a Clnrlf loailm 'woiui nm-ocfdll (' cm xue cnarge or orinery - --.cuoii wun ine election,, . r. Fore.srnera In Coantnia TroPl. Ilie Philippine Commission tiepaf-r lnS i plan for.onniDs .coastwiseti'ade r cr: '::-::r-;:. J 7Je:j ieaU.r;-;,--;'-;,,-, 'v -cayld: weU o that the bullet -had been i lurad." Do ygu notice the manner of Jesus, j ; approximately 390,000. " Colonel Gas ton, although defeated by a Republi can plurality of 37,479; made ft gain of 40 per cent, in the party; vote as com pared with that given to Josiah Qulncy last year,, and' cut an average icepuo lican.plurality onehalf. . . . -. Rhode Island has elected a Demo cratic Governor and Lieutenant-Governor for the first time in twelve years. The returns indicate pluralities for I: C. F. Garvin for Governor and Adelard Arehambault for LleuteaantGovernov of 7000 -and 5000 respectively. The remainder, of "the State' ticket is Re publican. .The Senate is overwhelm ingly Republican. I Connecticut elected an entire Repub lican State ticket by 15,938 majority. The Congressional delegation is Re publican. r .. - i New Hampshire showed remarkable Democratic-gains. Bachelder, Repub licau candidate for . Governdi was elected by probably less than -.7000 plurality. j , Pennsylvania returns indicate a plu rality f or Pennypackerl (Rep.) for Gov ernor of about 135,000.! Of the thirty two Congressmen elected twenty-eight are Republicans, and four Democrats. Senator Penrose claims to have elected more than, enough members pledged to him to insure his re-election to the United States Senate in January next. Ohio, Illinois and Indiana gave sub stantial Republican returns, those in the. first named State reaching next to the highest plurality !on record. The pluralities In all of the our Democratic districts in Ohio -were greatly reduced, and in the Republican districts increased. The Congressmen stand .seventeen Republicans to four Democrats, as in the last Congress. In Illinois the Legislature is safely Republican, and A. J. Hopkins will be elected Senator. Indiana- made unexpected gains for the Republicans. The returns indicate that 100 of the 150 members of the Legislature will be Republicans. It is claimed that-Senator Fairbanks will be elected by the largest majority In diana has ever given any Senator since the -Civil; War. Michigan elected an i entire Repub lican State ticket. Governor Bliss ran heavily behind his ticket, receivins a A YENS, THAT'S OVER!" Fiom the New York World. plurality of 32,764. William C May bury, Democrat, was elected Mayor of Detroit by a plurality of 105. Wisconsin elected the Republican State ticket by about 55,000. Lafol Iette, Republican, received. a plurality of 2655 over Mayor Rose for Governor. The Congressional delegation complete is made up of ten Republicans and one Democrat. An apparently overwhelm ing majority for the Republicans in tiie Legislature means the probable re election of Senator Spooner. Minnesota gave VanfSant. Republi can. G5.000 plurality for Governor, against 2000 two years ago. Missouri elected the Democratic State ticket. There is apparently a safe Democratic niajdrity in the Legis lature to elect a successor to Senator Vest. - Iowa gave a Republican plurality for the State ticket ;Af more than 70,000. The Democrats elected Judge Martin J. Wade to Congress.: He is the first Democratic Congressman in Towa for eight years, having defeated Hoffman, Republican, by 800 plurality. Nebraska probably elected Mickey, P.epublican, for Governor by about -1000. The Republicans elected five of the six Congressmen, the Second Dis trict, in which Omaha is located, being the. only one carried by the Fosionists. The "entire Republican! State ticket is elected, although the result is close. Idaho elected the entire; Republi can State and CongressiohaUtickets. Re publican leaders, claim ; there wjll be a majority of thirteen In the Legislature. Colorado gave James H. Peabody, Republican, a plurality of 4000 for Governor. The entire Republican State i ticket was elected, with the exception tt?6 islature. . ' J.: ,:. Utah will ffivp a Rennhiifnn mniniMtv oinot less than 4000. The RepnbllcaBS wui nave 51 of th rs .-trtJTis'irf slafur. : thn a cc,.t. i. it Churchy as United States Sena tm? tn succeedosephJL.r Rawlins, Democrat. Venesaela's BebelUon Crashed C The Venezuelan Consul-General in j. ew x ots., nas recei vea - tfce following cablegram: "Caracas. Revolution to" tally crushed by final victory, Matos a -fugitive. Torres Cardenas; Secre tary to the' President." r , - , ; . . Good Spellra Are Boni. Dr. Edward Brooks, Superintendent uc i-u duc: schools, Philadelphia, says "i agrees . with Professor- Scott.- nf Hichigan: UniversityiC that, goodispell- A SERMON TOR SUNDAY ELOaUENf DISCOURSE Ofi "THREE Ways of treating a siwjer Xhe Ker.Dr. TViltidf CUapmari Tclli far thfc . Ydrld'i ' Treatmenti tiie Iiaw'i Frdtuieni Ami the Sdtiom'i Treat "taiedt bf the Erring. : - New York City. The distinguished evangelist, the Rev. Dr. J. Wilbur Chap man, has prepared the following sermon for the' press. It is entitled ""Three --Way of Treating a Sinner," and Was preached from the text; "Neither do I fdndemn thee; go, and shi no more:!' .iTohri.--: 11; ;- There is. something exceedingly bathetic fa tht! beginning of this chapter, i,vhere we fad Jeaa vent iintb the Mount bf Olives; knew the critics say that this story -does hot belong to the New Testament; but did you. ever see a better . representation of Christ, first; in His' going out to - the Mount of Olivea as He was accustomed to, secondly, in His rising early in the morn ing that He might come again in touch with the great throbbing masa of people so much in need of His service. Thirdly, in His sitting down and teaching, showing that He spoke with authority, fourth, in the scorn with which He treated the Phar isees as they condemned this poor, unfor tunate woman, when He said, "Ho that is without sin among you let him first cast & itone at her," and finally in His tender treatment of the sinner herself when He eaid, "Neither do I condemn thee 5 go and bin no more.' This is all very Tike Him &nd somehow I cannot get it out of my mind that it belongs just where we have ever found it, and that anything which has so genuine a ring as this must have been given to us by inspiration of GcdY But the pathos of the first verse comes td ua when we connect it with the last verse of the 7th' chapter of John, "And every man went unto his own house." Jesus went unto the Mount of Olives. They all had houses. His commonest accuser had a home. The people that helped Him all had lodgings somewhere, but the Son of Man had not where to lay His head. He was rich, but for our sakes He became poor, a homeless wanderer, although the cattle on a thousand hills were His and the very world in which He lived had been only, as it were, His footstool. It is really touch' ing to see Him going to the Mount of Olives. It may be that He went td( lodge with a friend, possibly to sleep out in the open air, with only the blue sky above Him; perhaps He went to pray, for again und again do we find Him in communion irith His Father on this mountain side, and He may have gone just to wait upon God that He might have some new message from heaven or that some new direction might be given to His life of self-sacrifice. He was always going in the direction of this mountain, and it is for this reason that Christian travelers alwavs are ever delighted to do the same thing, but at this particular time He was up early in the morning. What a worker He was. The most tireless servant the world has ever seen was our Master, beginning in His childhood when He said, "Wist ye not that going out in His ministry when He de clares. "I must work the works of Him that sent Me while-it is day, lor the night cometh when no man can work," saying as He said on the well curb, "Mv meat is to do the will of Him that sent Me. and then stepping into a boat and pushing off from the shore when the crowd is too-great to make His ministry helpful, thus using the boat tor His pulpit. By day and by night He toiled, in heat or in cold He la bored, with the multitudes following Him shouting hosanna, and: the mob close tracking after Him, let Him be crucified He did nothing but work. What a joy it was to lim to say as Me came up to the cross. "I have finished the work Thou gavest Me to do." How few men can say it. Most men feel as if they were but at the beginning of their life's journey when they stop i.t, and say with regret, if 1 could but live my life oveT again I would do something worthy of note, but Jesus finished His work. I like to picture Him rising in the Mount of Olives. The 6cene must have been most beautiful. There is the city of the king lying at His very feet the city He loved with passionate devo tion. That valley yonder is the Kidroiy between Him and Jerusalem, and that stretch of hills in the distance with the pe culiar haze of the Holy Jband upon them, looking more like a string ot lewels than anything else, are the Mountains of Mohab. Looking off in the direction in which Jesus must have ever turned His eyes, that glis tening light in the distance comes from the Dead-Sea, but He cares not for beautiful scenery, although He was in love Avith all nature. He taught all day yesterday and tie must teach to-day, so down the mount ain side He goes, past the garden where later He is to suffer, over the Kidron, in through the gates and He is at the temple and takes His seat, with the people throng ing about Him. The day's work is begun. I shall never take this story out of my Bible, and if others remove it I shall keep it ever in my heart till i see Him. 1 hnd in it three wavs of treating a sinner First, the world's way, which is cruel in the extreme. Second, the law's way, which is as re lentless as death. Third, the Saviour's treatment, which presents to us a'r.ublimer nieture than anv- .ining tne worm na3 ever seen. I. "" The world s treatment of a sinner. "And early in the morning He-came again into the temple, and all the people carae unto Him, and He sat down and taught them. And the Scribes and Pharisees brought unto Him a woman taken in adultery, and whan they had set her in the midst they ay unto Him, Master, this woman was taken m adultery, in the very act." Verses B-4. Sin is an awful thing. You do not need to turn to the "Bible to understand this; ' read the daily newspapers, keep your eyes and ears open as you walk the streets of the city; but still you may read it n this account, which is almost 2000 years old. It is a wqftnan the mob has taken and hurried into the presence xf the Master. You can understand how a man could sin, but not a woman, yet if our hearts were known how, many of us, with out respect to sex. wonia stand coir demnedjn the presence of Him who has said that anger is murder and an evil lm agination is sin. The other day in a place of sinful resort a man suddenly stood up and rapping on the table with a revolver said, "Hear me," and when other men with frightened faces would have left the room he commanded them to stop and said. "1. used to have a happy home, a wife and children! now look at me, a horrible wreck, my family gone, my situation taken from me, my friends have forsaken me," and before they could stop him he had : sent his soul into the presence of his maker. - This story of a man is of common occurrence, but I know almost identically; the ame wretched story concerning a woman. Satan has no respect ;for sex, and since women seem to fall from greater heights than men. somehow, alas thev seem to go-to greater depths. I suppose that we all of us fall because we come to trifle, with sin. You avoid the house that kas the mark of a contagious-disease 'nnon ity and yet you can scarcely read a. news paper butLin it you will see" the awlul de tails of some heartbreaking scene, and. be fore you know" it-you are as. familiar with the ..circumstances as. if you had lived in them yourself , and - you place yourself in danger of being inoculated with the 'Virus of a worse disease 1' . t the world has ever seen Possibly .we lull all of us" because wft aVow some sin to tarry in wir hearts, and with deadening influence which may he ?o ..imperceptible at first it blinds our eyes to xmr danger, and causes us tobe indifferent ; to every anpeal made to ua: When ? the Mr'elnv on ;the Bost6n Commoha cut il-TW-'i a flattened bulletj "was foxtmr aTwosfc there for 200 yearsj and manv of ii t.ivo 1 allowed sins to enter our hearts in the days bf pur youth which have pursued us unm Did ;nge and caused pur. wreeki If Avomen are. not ' exempt" irom sia .God pity the men: . . . - . '-- .".' - - ' But this inoh that, hurried this horn- woman intd the presence of Jesus was not an honest company of men. I know it be cause m the seventh chapter I read they called Him a deceiver, while in the eightti they, addresse.d Him as Master- and Teach er. In the sixth verse of this "eighth chap- bj. T atau A CCAUl bllUJT UlUUgill. woman, tempting Him, 'for they wanted to 'catch Him on either -one. of these two points, first, if Ho accepted Moses' law then they Would-tuni the .Roman, citizens against Him tod condemn Him- because He wdiild put another to death". If He re pudiated the" law 61 Moses the Jewish non- ' ! :. .1 j lj . 1 TT' l. . i . uiace wouiu. nave, oeen axis .enemies; put nevertheless it is a true picture of the world; Have nothing to dd with it; there fore; as you love your own souls; beware of it. It has slain its thousands and tens of thousands. What ruined Lot's wife? the world; what ruined Achan until he de feated the whole camp of Israel? the world; Avhat ruined Judas until he sold his verv soul tor gresd of wealth? the world; what has ruined, ten thousand souls that -are to-day shut away trpm (jfo(rand lone, this same old world. And what shall it profit a. man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul.' , " . lirst; the world is critical; It will find every flaw that exists in your nahu-e; iuv perlections to whicn your loved ones would be blind, and which you yourself Were hardly aware of will be pointed out and vulgarly-displayedi Second, it is merciless; It lias positively no excuse for the man that fails, and while never offering td help him Over his difiicuh tie3 when the tide is against him it laughs at his despair and mocks at his hopeless ness Third, it is heartless. There is 'no for giveness in the world. There may be some time a disposition to ovcriook but not to lorgive, and this sort oi torgivenes3 has nothing in it of a helpful nature to poor lost, sinning humanity. You who belong to the worid, may 1 say to you m ali se riousness, don fc cast a stone at a man that is a sinner tor the reason that you are, or have been, or may be, just what yoit conuejnn in tuners. yv one oi us eAceui we are linked to the Son. of God bv faith and walking heartilv in fellowship with Hiin may hope to escape from the awful grip of Satan. Don't be unforgiving. He that cannot forgive others breaks down the bridge over which he must pass himselt, and he who is unwilling to forgive others makes it impossible tor Uod to torsive him; but thank Cod we are not shut up to the world. There is an open door before is to that which is mhniteiy better than any thing the world has ever seen. II. The law's treatment. "Now, Moses in the law commanded us that such should be stoned, but what savest f hour" Verse This statement is perfectly true, that is the law. It Was written by Moses and Written to him of Cod. There are only two forces in operation to-day in the moral world, law and gi-ace. .through one or the other of these forces wTe have suomitted our selves and bv one or the other we must hope to statid before Cod. By the way of the law the case 'would seem to be hope less. One act of sin Is evtthcient to incur the penalty of death. It is always so with law; if a man takes one false step in the mountains he lands himself at the bottom of the abvss: there is no mercy shown fby the law. Dr. Parkhurst gives the descrip tion of his chmbinz the mountains in Switzerland with a rope around his waist, he'd bv two amides, ona leadinor and the other following after him, when he stood upon a little piece of rock not two inches broad and looked down into the depth, which measures 3000 feet. If he had bro ken the law of gravitation and stepped out from the narrow ledge nothing couid have saved him from a horrible death; 'We can quite understand this in nature; the same thing applies in morals. If you sin atrainst vour health vou sutler. Law is a shrewd detective, and is ever on the watch. One wheel broken in the machinery " and the wnole is lnefheient; one piece of a rail dis placed means fearful disaster. Just one transgression of one law of God the pen altv must be paid. "He that cffend3 in one point is guilty of all. the Scriptures tie clare. which simply means that the least offense of the law means a breaking away from God. I repeat my statement that there ara but two torees in operation to day in the moral world, law and grace. If you have rejected Christ then your only hope is in the law, and I should think every man here must see that that is hope less, lirst. vou must suher, for every bro ken law means a penalty to pay, and every transgression of God s p:an brings down upon you a burden vou cannot well bear. Second, vou will he found out. No man ha sufhcient ingenuity to cover up his sin and no grave has yet ever been deep enough to save the sinner from the search ir.fr eye of God. Be sure 3rour sin will find vou out. A truer text was never written Third, you must die. The wages of sin is death. I beg vou. therefore, that you will not allow yourself to be controlled by the law. It is like the world, merciless and heartleps, and presents to you an opportu nity of escape Trom sin. but. thank (jod Vou are not shut un to it. There is a way opening up which leads to heaven shining brighter and brighter until the pertect day, lo this, way 1 now commend you ' ni. . Christ's treatment of a sinner. "But Jesus stooped down and with His finger wrote on the ground, as though He heard them not. So when they continued asking Him. He lifted un Himself and said unto them, He that is without sin. among you let him first cast a stone at her. And again He-stooped down and wrote on the ground, And thev which heard it. being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest even unto the last, and Jesus was left alone and the worn an standing in the midst. When Jesus had lifted up Himself, and saw none but' the woman, He said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? Hath no man condemned thee? She said. No man. Lord And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I eon demn thee; go, and sin no more." From verse-6 to 11. You have a great picture presented to you in this story; First, the angry crowd. Second, the infinite Saviour. If I were ah artist I should paint it, iind yet norman could ever namt the picture ot Christ. know Of one who attempted itnd then de termined that he would never paint again because after working upon the face of Christ no other face could be worthy" of his skill. I doubt if anv man could paint the trembling woman, her face now flushed and now pale, trembling in every part of her body, and yet you can see it all as you stop and think, jt know wny. ne was so mercy ful. You say it.was because He was di vine, and that is, true without, saying it but it seems to me He must have been es pecially merciful because of the night He had spent at the Mount ot Uhves. x am perfectly sure 4hat that man who pray much with Christ is ever charitable in hi treatment of those who have gone astray, Mrs. Winttemore s treatment of JSmebird the pxr fallen girl, who becomes the mis slonary to -.the. outcast; Jerry MeAuiey arm aoout S. 11. liadley and his prayer which reveal to the poor sinful man that Jerry' McAuley knew Christ, are but illus trations of ; the spirit of which I speak The man " who; has the spirit of . Christ 13 ever- gentle "with the erring, and up and down the streets of cur cities men -go m multitudes longing torust one word ot pympr.thy. . ; . -"--v--:- Satd a young business man lo me thi week: " "I have been four year in New -"York, most of the time with a, heavy heart, No niie has- ever epoken to me of- Canst poV." invited me to the church, nor asked i he ooni'd be iuv friend, and have never c raved .ory!ffolin.oaev:f6r.-I..hayfevnc' i iceved XW but ipy -J irar-fc Jvas. iecU -hirn.gryf " "frlrot. "Tfp jstjinft .doWrt and wrote in the dust." BomcS one has skid that He did t msfc beeause Hi mi niL : Was, occupied with thinking what He should do with the sinner, and it was much the .sanul spirit a you. would have if vou would s.erbb.e tipda a piece: of paper.whtle' your niiad wAs tak 1TKT iri- onma tttxi rrV f-tr TirAlOom - Knm ( nn else h is suggested that in the i nuritv of His nature, standing in thefc presence of the woman oi sin, ne stooped, wown to wrnte because He would hide thefiushing.of His own face. That dust that was then at His feet -is gone forever; only God i Himself pmil T?in(T ih lianV m.1- if rr i-r i (o n 'a He should Taring it before us to-night'l be-" Jieve 1 know what would be written there on, "Neither do I condemn thee; go and- sin lio tnore: And I afli triad that we are -notsshut up" td the sand for: a record of that vu,li. JO 11 1 1 1 11.11 ILL W1V? UlJli AUV.. is, therefore; rv6 condemnation to them which are iri Christ Jesus," and this record is. eternal; "Heaven and earth shall passy but My word shall never pass away . ibecond; vrlien He continued with bowed head td write the crowd i became" exceed ingly anxious, and finally they asked Hint what He had to say about the woman who wai sinner, and then comes one of the grandest sentences that ever fell from His lips, and gives us all the. beauty of 'His manhood, as, well as tue power ot His jra- hood when He said. Let he who is with out sin cast the first stone." I doubt not the woman began to tremble, and she must have said td . herself, "My punishment is UpoU me.lfor here are these Pharisees av!io have made loud professions of their purity, surely they will cast the first stone," but never a hand was lifted arid never a stone was thrown,. Which only, reveals to me the fact that when men are cast Avith tho-e men Who arc sinful, not outbreakihgly sin- lul, but nevertheless wrong in the sight or God, who of us could cast the first stone i i this assembly to-night? The ATery fact that hands are not lilted and stones are nos throAvn is Our-own condemnation. Third, in the ninth verse we read. And thev which heard it being convicted by their own conscience, Avent out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last, and Jesus Avas leit alone and the woman standing in the midst. .at t y mind 4 is the most dramatic scene in all the-cnap- ter, if not in the New lestament. iVad-den!y-the shouts of the mob are hushed, they have taken their lianas on irom tne trembling woman, they are speechless in the presence of this Son of God. and Avith- out consultation they begin to sliqk away. I can see them go, until finally the last one is gone and there is the bush of death upon the two as thev stand together, i ou can all but hear the throbbing of their heal ts; you cam detect "the quick breathing of the Avoman, who thinks that the time lov sentence-has come. Mercy and pity face each other, and mercy waits for pity to speak. "Neither do I condemn thee; go and sin no more." And we are ever to remember three things in connection with our Sa viour: First, there is never a i question as to how deeply Ave have sinned-; the stories of the greatest sinners are told in "the New Testament for our hope. f ' Second, there is poAverf enough in the blood of the Son to blot put the deepest sin. Though your sins-be j as scarlet they shall be as white as snow; though they be crimson they shall be as wool. , And the third thing to remember is if the man with sin is like the sands of the sea for number if he would feel the power of the shed blood of the Son of God he must by real faith and honest confession lay hold upon Him for eternal life. His kindness lifted her burden, and the world is just dying to-day for the want of sympathy. I think the time is long past Avhen men are willing in; these days to spend an hour in listening to abstract rea soning or deep theological-discussions. I feel confident that the time is upon us Avhen r.ien are ready to explain' to that church, or that minister ready to bestow a word of cheer, ready to help a. little in bearing the burden of life, t A woman came Avith a handful of sand to her minister and said, "My sins are like that for number," and he said, "Take the sand back to the sea and let a wave roll over your handful of sand and they Avill be gone. To-night I bring you to the sea greater than any the Avorld has ever looked upon. '. "Thre is a fountain filled with blood, Drawn from ImmanueL's vein, And sinners plunged beneath that flood, Lose all their guilty stains." "Neither do I condemn thee," said Jesus when nil her accusers had slipped away. We do not know what became of this AAoman, but I am perfectly sure that she never sinned again. This is the secret of A'ictory OA'er sin: Catch "a glimpse of the face fairer than all the sons of men, listen but once to the sound of His A'oice, sweeter than all the music of earth. ; How the man that preaches the development of character can match this matchless story I cannot see: how the man who takeathe blood out of the word of God and the sacrificial part away from the death of Christ can for a moment compare his message with this story of the diA'ine Son of God is more than I can tell. I bid all burdened ones weighed down because of sin' to" come into His presence to-night and you can hear llim say "Neither do I condemn thee; go and sm no more." 'Xlie Example of Patience. The example of God's forbearance and the incentive of His trust help to prepare us for that self-control and patienAvaiting Avhich are, perhaps, the most difficult arts of living. Preachers of the strenuous iife often forget that for one who dares to act there must be many Avho are compelled to wait and to endure. It is not the charge Avhich commanders dread for their com mands, jt is the waiting before the Avord to charge is given. Action relieves the tension of the nerves and occupies the thought. The example of God's patience is -not in it self a sufficient incentive in our. time of need. God waits because He knows. He sees the -end from the" beginning, and is never tempted to gather unripe fruit as we so often'are. He asks us to be sharers of His patience by the exercise of faith. We can wait because we believe. He trusts us in thq partnership of work and Avaiting, and we renounce and have pa tience tjecause we trust Him for the end He promises. The Congregationalist. "Work. . g! Work is given to men not only, nor so much, perhaps, because the world needs it. Men make work, but work makes men. An office is not a place for making money; it is a place for making men.:, A workshop is not a place for making machinery, for J i i: J "it. ' - nttmg engines anu turning cyiinuers; it. is a place for making souls, for fitting out honest, modest, whole natured men.-. For Providence cares less for winning, causes than that men, whether losingor Avinning, should be great and true: cares ? nothing that reforms should drag their cause from- year to- year bewildermgiy, put that men and nations,' in carrying1 them- out, should find there edttcatiom, discipline, unselfish ness "and growth in, grace. Henry Drum? mond. , - -1-' L- - - - - Politeness An Attirude.;! ... ' Politeness "appears to be what goodness really is, and is an attitude rather ;than an action. -Fine breeding gr not the : mere learning of any code of m'iaiienr afly more than 'gracefulness is the mere learning of any kind of physical exerciser The gentle man apparently as . the Christian really; looks not on his own things, but on the things of others, and the selfish, person--' is always bDth'.un-Christian and jlMared. El len T. Fowler. : : '-;'. -';-,.. - ... -."-; S --0';-C': -' . A Perpetual Life, ; ' ; We have riot divined. the wholei Gospel AvUea Ave point to the four Gcfspels and say: "It is all .there.' ? Only in a limited eeuseis that true,; tor tne lite they record prw f ., - - .- . ... k " fc a a perpetnai nie among men."-incre are I " - , k , , - , - - ' - - . nric.put into print ,&u& hound; up m a hook. r "M.;Mv:::-u,-'f,.,-A, n , - - "C t ' i xi tt : (J.:A..ohdthaler;:-:;&"S u-i- 1IN0R EVENTS OF THE WEEK ft . WASHINGTON ITEMS. Too much hard work has caused dis content among officers and enlisted tten in the Davy. . - " , A. decrease "of fifty per cent, in the hard coal production of the country for nine months of this year was reported from Washington. - Captain TV P. Gilmore, U. S N., was retired as Kear-Admiral. Negotiations for naval stations are soon to be opened with the Cuban Gov ernment. - , - - 'Advices received by the State De partment indicate an early completion' of the Panama Canal treaty negotia-" tiOns with the Government of Colcn bia. iCaptaift Chapman C. Todd, recently in eomniand'--of the cruiser Brooklyn, wilLbe retired as Pwear-Admiral at his own request, . - . ' Secretary Root approved the adop tion of disappearing carriages for six Inch guns, which has been bit.Eeiiy op posed by General Miles. OUR ADOl'TED ISLANDS.. ; General Sumner said that he was dis-. posed to- give the Eacolod Moros more time to surrender before destroying their forts and stronghold. . The new military post at Manila was named "Fort William McKinley." There have been serious political riots in Porto Rico, resulting in 6ome loss of life. DOMESTIC, Tlio "PrdSiiiT. put worst elinftlinfr fnv tp?1i1 turkeys at Manassas, Va., and visited the Bull Run battlefield. The Protector, a new submarine boat, was successfully launched at Bridgeport, Conn. Eleven children from Cuba on their way to Mrs. Katherine Tingley's Thed sophist colpny at Point Lo'ma, Cal., were held at New York City pending an investigation. Coal shippers believe a famine im pends in Tennessee, North and South Carolina, Virginia and Georgia. As a result of domestic troubles Moses Wilson, a farm hand at Ieroy, N. Y., killed his wife and himself.' The Grand Jury of Plymouth, Mass., Indicted six men for alleged participa tion in the tar and feathering of Mrs. Clara F. Potter and James McDonald In August. Tom D. Johnson, Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, hit with his fist a city employe who called him a liar. Three men were killed by an explo sion of gas in the Lost Run mine, at Straitville, Ohio: After a quarrel Peter Grant, of Cole man, Wis., killed his wife and then l'a- Hfcally shot himself. .. Drugged liquor is supposed to have caused the death of seven soldiers in the National Home, at Marion, Ind., within two weeks. The mystery surrounding the killing of J. P. Lingeld, at Milledgeville, Ga., was cleared up when his brother Peter surrendered and confessed the crime. The Mexican Government is nego tiating with New York hankers for gold to place its currency system on a more stable basis. Lafayette Hull, at Lancaster, Ohio, was accidentally shot dead while duck shooting by Clarence Looinis, a friend, who afterward attempted to kill him self. Farmers and telegraph linemen had a battle at Rochester, N. Y., which the Sheriff had to quell, ten farmers being hurt and thirty-three linemen arrested. Bishops Stariha and Keane were con secrated at the cathedral in St. Paul, Minn. Seven men were severely hurt at Chicago in a riot caused by strikers interfering 'with bill posters who had taken their places. ' The monitor Wyoming, tried off the Pacific coast, made 11.8 knots. Ten citizens of Bowling Green, Ky., were indicted for preventing registra tion of colored voters. Burned to death in their home, Will iam, Albert and Julia Wickingson were found at Elkhorn, Wis. The postoffice at Oyster Bay, L. I., ordered opened on Sunday while the President was at his summer home, was ordered to be closed on the fSab bath. AlfFed E. Jessup, of New York City, was -appointed chief assaycr of the Chi nese Mint at Tien-Tsin. Losses by the recent fire at Anfoy, China, were $5,000,000 in the native quarter, and $300,000 in the British concession. Many deaths from the cholera -have occurred in Jerusalem and other places in Palestine. There ismnch distress through, lack of medical aid. In France the striking coal miners and the operators decided to refer the question. of an. increase in the miners waes to arbitration. . - My lady may still huve her sealskin coat, for the supply of seals" is not quite exhausted. . Although the Prib ilof herds are growing smaller, Lieu tenant Bertholf, of the navy, has dis--covered two. hitherto unknown rook-oWkre-An! PCArna Tsland. in the Shu- yitvtj v- xr r . . j.1 A lnolron magin grOUTl SOUtn OI W aioonw raeninsulaV and. 700 miles away- irom- the old sealing grounds. Stron gest THE EQUITABLE - .-: v. OF Outstanding Assurance tX " ' ' Surplus . 4-;Ijr(re'i-caVisttlerne claims paid in full at once. - Strongest, safest, best and f most ' - . . -. r . : PROMINENT PEOPLE,' ; - Premier Balfour sleeps .atleasl, twelve hours a day. . , Lord Roberts has accepted anJnvIta' lion et Generals Corbin Young and Wood to visit America next year. Sir Ernest Cassell, .whom Lord Sails- .bury refused to raise to the peerage. despite King Eaward s request,. liegan life as a clerk. . , - Cornelius yVanderbilt has. placed an order with the Herreshoffs for a racing schooner yacht in , Which he will com pete a.t Kiel next year. . . ' - ' ' The conferring of the rank o heredi tary nobility on the Asiatic explorer Sven Hedin has evoked a violent con troversy in the Swedish press. Jame3 Stokes, banker -and philan thropist, of New York City, was "decor ated with the Cross of the. Legion of Honor by President Ldubet of France, Herbert Spencer has again declared' that he is broken by the burden of years; and has laid his pen down for-, ever s far as any large work is con cerned. . ' -' ,',- -: - , -V- -.;.-. Fiii:c?Fs Theresa of Bavaria has been -elected by. the Munich Geographical Society an honorary -member for .her achievements in the line of exploration and travel. , " . , rroTtasor II htlv. who teaches Chi nese iit Columbia, says the language is , easy to learn, but that pupils need not . hop? io talk freely with iaundiymen at the end cf a few weeks. Vseouut Kitcheners new peerage is granted with a A-ery uuusuai remain der. It goes first to his male- children, Mioxt to his female children, and in de ! fault of both to his two brothers in succession. ; Of all the Goulds George and liis , family get the most out of life. He and i his boys play polo for keeps, and from yachting to swimming their recreations are really hardening forni3 of health j ful exercise. Of ali the Vanderbilts it j is George again, who, :with his schol arly fastest reaps most joy in the quiet 1 of his splendid North Carolina palace, i t liiUliiUlt. Stories of Snake Bites. An English traveler just returned from India says that the stories about the great number of ' deaths from snake bites in India are to a great extent unreliable as statistics when carefully analyzed. He accounts, moreover, for these extreme exaggera tions in figures on very -plausible grounds. In India, he says, the law requires that when there is a sudden 'death a detailed report of it must be made to the 'civil surgeons, and as there are many such deaths far from the. civic offices where the report should be made, the under officers per form their duty with the leajst possiblo trouble. To save the annoyance of transporting dead bodies, .or vital vr gates, and the loss of time in getting evidence on the facts of the cases f which may be plain murders, by poi son or otherwise a report of death by "snake bite" is made. This sort cf report is ' very ' convenient and makes interesting statistics. i :- ' Ireland's people commit fewer small offenses than those of any other couc try. Last year there was a further diminution of 10 2 per cent, in minor offeoses. " Full line of Up-to-Date Bicycles jnsfc , received inclnding '. p. RAMBLERS, IDEALS AND CRESCENTS. -COLUMBIA, CLEVELAND, , NEW AND OLD .f FOR SALE OR RENT, f New Wheels 812 50 to $40 cash. ' Old . ones $5 to $10. Good new single tnbe tires $3 to $5 per pair. Repairing promptly dtone and" all work , guaranteed, Sundries "andBioyole Parts al ays on band. "Give-me a call and be- satisfied. . . ... . . . . ii'v.v; .' U. M. EDWARDS, ' Lumberton, N .0(. - TO CONSUMPTIVES. - The undersigned having been restored to haahh "by simple means, after suffering for several years with a severe lung affection, and that, dread ditease Consumption, is anxious to make know n to his fellow sufferers the means of cure. To. those who desire-it, he will cheerfully send (free of charge) a copy of the prescription used, which thev will, find a snre ciire for 1 Caasamotlaa. . Asthma, Catarrh, Bronchitis and ail throat and tang yMaadVes. - He hopes all sufferers -will try f hisremedv. as it i.t in-valuahle. Thnse dMiring 1 .5. t. t si 1 . . . i. : prcscninioa, wmcu wiu con -innn nauiiai;, . r1Rn . ihhbiiwi. in the World LIE! NEW Y O R K. v: .$l,170.,275,725.u0-' .: .i. 1 V- -.;; a
The Lumberton Argus (Lumberton, N.C.)
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