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J .-- wo ruBLrsnED evert friday-by ' Rgv. W. T. VALKER, Editor and Proprietor, t Corner iSF. and Davis Streets,) v ? Greensboro, H. G. . : ritlDAY, FEB 1837. TERMS ' IN ADVANCE. One year - . ' $1.00 Fix months .60 . The Editor is not held responsible "for th views of correspondents. ? " Agents wanted. A liberal commission tnill b given. ; Writs for terms. '5 ..:. ' The date on the label, after your name, - is to inform you when1: your subscription expires. .'-- If your name is written ; a cross' mark will be placed there to let vou know. If you renew before the expiration of .your j : time you will be credited from that time, so you lose nothing by it. . : . . ; . j ; Send fractions of dollars in, one and two cent stamps. ' , The Nokth JiaaiKA rrsciinuuoK Ist is entered at the post office in Greens boro as second-class matter. ' r . ADVERTISING- RATES. . ' JSpace lmonth, Smo. ;6mo. 12mo. . i Column $1.00 $3.50-$4. 00 $7.50 i - ,$2.00 $5.00 $3.00 $lp.6o . $4.00 $10.00 $16.00 $30.00 1 " $8.00 $20.00 $33.00 $00.00 tafe? " Advertisements io be- inserted every oilier meek and Iiamng special position wiU be charg d 10 per. cent extra. ; .",-' DR. TALM. AGE'S SERMON. ! u 18 THE CABISTIAK EELIGIOS- A ' "CHEAT. HIS SUBJECT. - A Delusion that nmwr 9fft onn nnn the Heathen,-: that has Reformed the dmnlrjiM thaf !a .Trw - drnnkard, thatis Jov on "R-irtri. wrootiyn, Jan. dO.--AttheTaber mlli fill J mnrnmn- ftin I H' r HORTHCAROL &tknthLjt:-, 11 Mmwni HWwl, , go to prtlJor " ..wAuuj)V, . uubiiicu. uj im mersion a number of persons who pre ferred that mode, as on the Sunday previous he had baptized by snrink- linfftnOSe WnOSO Ueairfid- Krnfcasnr n6 ani8 rendered the tsonato .n C minor bv Rheinbercr. ..The opeainghymn, sung by the whole! -uufelca',lll"Jj wib ueginning: A . O happy day that'fixed my choice . On thee, njy Savior aud my GotL After reading another list of those . who during the week has united with . the c!inrch, vDr. Talmage discussed the subject, "Is'th Christian Relig- ion a Cheat?" His -text was: "He :j made his arrows bright, he consulted with images he looked in the liver." -' y Stupid del nsioh, And yet all the -?JiajebJu3iojJdwitJi ftslsalaHS It seems aeen fill world loves to be :V, hoodwinks if thedclnsion of the text ; is only a specimen of a vjist number 61 deceits practiced upon the human race, in the latter part of the last century Johanna Sonthcote came forth pretending to have divine power, ; made prophecies, had cliapeis bui t in her honor and 100,000 disciples came forth to follow' her. About five years before the birth of Christ Apollonius -was born, and he came forth, and after live years being speechless, according to the tradition, he healed the sick and raised the dead, and preached virtue, and, according to the myth, having deceased, was b ougha to resurrec tion! The Delphic Orachs deceived vast multitudes of people; the Pythoness, seated jn the temple of Appolo, utter ing a crazy jargon from which the people guessed or misguessed their , individual or : national fortunes or misfortunes. The utterances wee of such a nature that you could read y them any way 30a wanted to read ; them. A general going forth to bat- tie, consulted the Delphic Oracle, and 1 lie wanted to find ont whether he was iroingr to be safe in the battle or Vil ifi in the battle,, and' the answer came lortn irom the Ue phic Oracle so that, if you put the comma before the - word "never," it means one thing, :,: and if you put the comma after the word '-never," it means another thin a just oppos te. The message from the Delphio Oracle to the general was "Go, forth, B return, never in ' ktMi Bhalt thou Derish.'Mt he. -wns Villprl that was according to the Dplnhin , Oracle; if he came home safely, that was accoraing to tne JJelpliic Oracle. : So th anuient auguries deceived the : " people. The priests of those auguries, oy tne mgat ot birUs,cr by the mtona lion of thunder: or bv tliH i n&irlo ,ar pearance of elain animals, told the . ivmuucB ut jiiibiui tiiuus 01 luuiviuuais . or nationfc Tho sibyls deceived the people. The sibyls were supposed to : oe mspireu women wno lived in caves v and who wrote the Rihvl 1! afterward purchased by Tarqnin the I . . : -". j v-ai a man arose in New York, pretending to liea divine being, and playing his . parr, so wen tnat weaitny merchants ; " became- his disciples and threw their fortunes into his discipleship. And soi l all ages there have been necro mancies, incantations, witchcrafts sorceries, magical arts, enchantments divinations and delusions. The one of the text was only a specimen of . that, which hus hp.pn .fru.no in. i . xij all ages of the world. None of thlse delusions accomplishes ; any goo i. Th y deceived, -they pauperized the ; people, tney were as cruel as tlieywere '' 1 .1 MM -. . -i .-'... ansuru. xuey ojenea no Hospitals, they healed no" wounds, they wiped away no tears; they emancipated no . serfdom - v.? But there are those who say that ; all these delusions combined ar as , ' ., ....... r nothing compared with the delusion now'fthvoilil in lllft trrvrlfl liilfllnC!inr of the Christian religion. Vv that "de lusion haa today two hundxdd million .1 ..... t , ' 1 T I 1 dune. It Drowses to encircle the earn wixn 11s giruie. x lvm wincn uau rengiou. - .an; tnat 13 - the iie has been called a delusion has already markable thing aboiit this delusion overshadowed the Appalachian range nr rihricfioWif-'' ' ' . . t - j 1 01 onrittiamtv, it overpowers thp on this side the sea. und-.it has over- . ' . .; . .",v:iJ:'uCi0 :"e It has conquered England and the United States. This champion delu -- ---7. ; 7, .. blOll, U11S JUOaX, LUIS SVNinUie OI tne ares as it has been called, has -rone forth to conquer tne islands' of the Pacific: the Afelanusiaand thp. "Minrn. nesia . and: Malaj'an Polynesia have already surrendered to tlie delusion. Yea, it has conquered the Indian archipela .0, and Borneo and Sumatra and Celebes and Java have fallen un der its wiles. In the Fiji islands, where there are 120,000 ' people,' 102, 000 have already, become tha rlunps rf this Christian religion, and if things go on as they are now going on, and if the influence i.f this 2-re.t . hallnrri nation of the ages cannot be "stopped, it wni swauow cne giooe. .supposing, then, that Christiau ty is the delusioi of the centarie, as- some - hate pro nounced it.' I uromse this morniTi show you what Las been accomplish- ea uy tujs ouiuifru, tins laiiacy, tuis hoax, this swindle of the ages. . i : And in the hrst place, I. remark that this, delusion of, the Christian religion lias made wonderful trans formations of .human character. 1 will go down the aisle of any church in Christendom and I will fhwl nn either side that aisle those whrt wcn once xroflierate. mrofane. nnnlpn.n . nf J speech and unclean 0 aotion'. druiik- 4 1 : .. i - 1 am a. . en auu lost. iu dv tne Dower or this delusion oithq Christian religion they have been completely transform ed, and now they are kind and ami- II 1 1 ' : - aoie, ana genial ana loving,- ana use ml. . Everybody se3 the change. Under the power of this, great hallu . , , : - toand tHeirchief dehoht among those I who- eramhled Jinrl . sffnm: n.nrl -rrmn,! wha gambled and swore and raced horses, now they find their "cheif joy ings and churches, so complete is the delusion, lou, their own famili. have noticed it the wife has noticed lit. fhfl ihjldrfin hira nnHnn.l if. rri, m0ney that went for rum now goes - v , , ... , to . for books and for clothes and for ed ucation. j 4 He is a uew man. All who know him say there has bean a won derful change. What is the cause of this change? This great hallucina tion of the Christian religion. There is as much diSorenca bitwen what he is now and what he once was - as between a rose and a nettle, as betwesn a dove and a Vulture ;bStw3ea day an 1 night. , Trem?naoii3 delusion! , Admiral Farragat, one " of the ihost admiielimeri of the '''American navy," early -became a victim of th'w Chris tian delusion and seated not loug.be- fore his death, at .Long Branr h,he was giving some fne ikTs an account oL:' p i.! . l f.. "ulllu tion of. their sentiments. Gnnthp. n his early life. He said: ."My father went down in beha f of the : United States government to pnt an end to Aaron Burr's rebellion I was a cabin boy and went along with him. M could swear like an old salt, Icoufd gamble in every style of gambling.. I knew all the wickednes there was at jthat ;'timo abroad. On day my fatner cleared everybody out of 'the .cabin except myself, and locked the door3. He said; 'David, what are you going to do?' Weil, i; said, 'father, I am'goingto follow the sea 'J?ollow the seal and boa poor miserable, drunken sailor, lacked and cuffed about the world and die of a fever in a foreign hospital? 'Oh no,r I sa d, 'farther, 1 will not be that I will tread the quarter deck and com mand, s you do- 'No, David,' my father said; 'no, David, a person that has your, ; principles and' your . ba habits will never tread the quarter dtck or command." My father Ave'n out and shut the door after him, and I said them 'I will change, I wil never svvear again,' I will never drink again, I j will never gamble again And, gentlemen, by the help of. God 1 have kept those three vows to thi time. ; 1 soon alter tnat -became a Christian, aud that decided my fate for time and for eternity." Anotner captive ol tnis grea " A . .a .., Christian delusion I There goes Sau of Taras horse-back at full gtillop Where is' he going? Io destroy Christians. He wants no better play spell than to stand . and watch the hats and coats 'of the murderers v ho are inassjicring- God's children. There goea.the same man. ; 'This time he is afoot. V here is he going now? Going on the roa i to Ostia to die for Christ They tried , to whip it out of hini. the tried to scare it out of him, they tnonglit they would give him enough or it by putting him into a window ess dungeon, and kecpiijg him on mall diet, and denying him a cloak andfiondemning him as a criminal and howlingto him through the street nut tney couia ; not lreeze ; it out of him; and they could not sweat it out of himand they eou d not pound it out: 01 him, so they tried the sursrfirv .. .. r . . w r .:,: t of the sword, and one summer da ? in 66 he was decapitated. .Perhaps the!bi0n. But . ". .7;17l : :1UMi" -uc mightiest intellect of the 6,000 years of the world; existence, hoodwinked cheated, rninlwl rlnl w c"ea -7 J " - T J " MJf ULIU VJlilll3-'j strongest intellects. rGather the crit ICS." ' Secular anfl rNiorinnu nfllilo J century together andAput a vote to to wincu.is- tne gaeatest hnnlj- a,' 'it 1 book,ever n, and by large major Fy pey will say ; Paradise ; Lost Who wrote "Paradise LostP 'One of the fools who believed in this,: Bible, John' Milton. Ben iamin 'Frank in surrendered to this ,delnsion. if you may. judge from the letter that he wrote to: Thomas Paine begging him to destroy - the "Age of Reason" in manuscript and never, let it ; go into type, and writing afterward, in . his old days '"Of this Jesus 5 o Nazareth Qiave to say that the system of mor als ? He peffc :and ! the religion he htis given'.u3 are the. best things the world hag ever seen or is' likely to see.' Patrick Ilenr, the electric champion of liberty, enslaved by this delnsion, that he says; I -'The 'book worth all other books put together is the mble." i iienjamin Rush, the leadin? physiologist and anatomist of his day, he great medical; scientist -what die' he eay? The only trne and rjerfect religion is Christianity," Isaac New- tow, the leading philsopher of h s time what did he' .say? That "man surrendering to this delnsion of the Christian religion crying out; ; "The sublimes t philosophy on earth is tho philosophy of the Gospel." David Brewster, at ' the pronunciation of whose nsme every scientist the worl over bows his head, David Brewster saying: ; '.'O,. this -.religion has been a great light all my days." President Thiers, the ; great , French s tates man, acknowledging that he prayed when he said:; ; "I invoke the Lord God in, whom lam glad to believe "! David Livingstone, a'iie .-'to conquer, the lion, able to conquer the panther, able to qeouer the savage, yet conouered by thh deliuida, :thU hall aoination t!ii3 great swindle of the ages, so when th?y mutlnm dead-they ' find him on his -.kaeoi. William' E. Obirlnn. fchestrong3it in England to-day, un able to resist thU chimera, this Xdla y, this delu3ion of tin Christian r? iigiou, ge.i t) t!i3 hoaiV of GjI every -. t ..." . - .Y. J ibbitli, nn I ofcja.at thy invitation f th?reotar-reali thi priyor i t) thj peaplo.'f 0, if th r,e -mighty intellects i e overaorne bv- ithi flaln.mn wK.it there for you and for me? .' " ' Beside that, l have notic3L that first rate iiiQdels cannot be deiiended on for steal fas tnes? in th leading skoptic, wa3 so wrought npon by this Christianity that in a weak moment he cried out; "My belief in the Bible has saved me in my literary and moral lifeV llousseau, one of the most eloquent ,. champions of inCfdelity, spending his whole life warring against Christianity, cries out: "The majesty of the Scriptures amazes me'." Alta.nont the notorious infidel, one wouhl tliink; he would have been safe aliaiust tiiis d.drninn of the .Christiiul religion. Oh, mi After tdking. ariin iCiiristiauiry ai his days, iu his last shotirs he cried onti "vPa, Tiio.i bl aspliemed - bin most indulgent Lord God, hell .: itsel1 is a rofu go, if it hide mo.; from Thyj trowu! , V oltaire. the most talented inQ lei j ,., evr ; se?n .swriting'; s 2n0 pablications, and the I most of them spiteful '. against" Christians, himself the most notorious libertine of the- "century one ,'wonld Jiave been depended upon ' for steadfast ness in the advocacy; of ".infide-ity and in the ' war, against this v terrible c'linjera, this delusion .- of the Goospla liutno; inhls last hour' he' asks for Christian, u burial, i and "; n.sV that they .give' him -..the sacra ment of tho Lord Jesus Christ. Why you cannot depend upon thesb first infldelST-you cannot upon their no w- to resist thi great delusion of Christ ianity. ): . J. nomas - Fame, the ? God ' of modern skeptics, : hi3j birthday- cele brated in New York and Boston with great enthusiasmU-Thomas Paine the paragon, of ; Bible- haters ; ' Thomas Paine, about whom his brother infidel William Carver wrote,', in ,'a letter wh ch I have at m v- h rno ca-tr- ing that he drank a quart of lluni a day and was too mean .and tocdishon est to pay for it; jThomas Paine," ; the aaorea ol modern infidelity: Thomas Fame, wao stole- another man's wife in 'England and brought iier to this xiuu , j-nuuiiw i aiue, wno was- so ,1 . Mil, r.-.. . i squalid and so loathesome L and r so drunken and so rprofiigate snd so beastly in his habits, sometimes pick ed out of the ditch, ' sometimes too filthy to.be picked out:Thomaa Priinr -one. would': have thought that'- he could have besn depended on for his . , U,0 steadfastness ag inst this great delu- In -his dyinsr hour Powerfal delusion, all conqiicring lelnsion, earthquaking i delusion of the Christian religion. Yea, at goes on' it is is so impertinent and t it -, is so earing, this chimera of the gos- V 1 Vi iy, C4.1 Xll tZ. w, . A-i pel, that having conquered'; the great til fit MM nSl1lAi.;nn J'il. I .. It t -I picture galleries of thi war, ' the old masters and the young masters, 'aq I showed in a former sermon, it i3 not satisfied until it has ' conquered the music of the world. Look oyer' the programme of that magnificent ; mu sical festival a few years ago in .' New York and see what: were the great performances, and learn that ' the greatest of all the sudjects' were re ligions , subjecta,' ; .What"" was it one night, when ; three thousand voinps were accompanied with" aj vast" num ber', ot instruments? ."Israel in Egypt.?'; Yes bcethoveif deluded until he wrote the high mass in D major. ' Hayden deluded ' until he wrote the Creation''' Handel de luded until a he wrote the oratorios of "Scphthac" and Este'r" Saiil" arid i3raol in h'pb" aal tin ' 'Messiah, On tne'closing might 3,000 deluded people singing- of a de usion to eight honsand d jlnled hearer Ye3, this chimera .if the goipel is not satisuod until it go?3 on and builds itself into the most permanent architecture, so it. seems as if the world is. never going to . get rid of it What are some of the finest buildings n.the --world? . St. Piul's St. -Peter's the churches and cathedrals of al Christendom. Yes, thisimpertinence of the gospel, this vast delusion is not satisfied until it projects itself, and in one year gives contributes, $6,250;000 to loreigu missions, the work of which is u make dunces and - fools on thp other side of the' world peopfe rwe nave never seen. Deluded doctors 220 physicians meeting week by week in London, in the Union Medica Prayer circle, to worship "God. D luded lawyers the late Lord Cairns the highest legal authority ' in Eng land, the ex-advisor of the throne spending his -vacation in" preachin the gospel of Jesus Christ to the poor people ol Scotland; Frederic T. Fre linghuysencethesecretr y of state of the 'Jifitftd Kfcif;fiknftl,l"fa.i0ri y u va. AtWXiiUUtU evangelical Christian, an elder' in the Kefo.med "church: John Bright. deluded Quaker; Henry Wilson, the vice-president of the United States, dying a deluded Methodist or Congre gationalist; Earl of Kintore dyin? a deluded Presbvle.-ian. Thp mni. bais in South sea, the bnshmen of Terra del Puego, the wild men of Australia, putting down the knivesof their cruelty, and clothing themselves in decent, apparel all under the power of this delusion. Judson and Do to, and Abeel and Camphpll and N llliams and the 8,000 missionaries of the cros3, tnrniiig their backs on home and civiluation and comfort, tind going out amid the squalor . of heathenism to relieve it, to save it, to help it, toiling uutil they dropped in to their graven, dying with-no earthly comfort about theni, and going into graves with no 1 appropriate epitaph, ivnen they might have lived in thi3 country; and : lived" for themselves, and lived luxuriously, and been at last put into brillian t sepulchre. What a delusion. - v 5 Yea, this delnsion of Christian re ligion shows itself -in-, the "fact that it goes to those Avho are in trouble Now, it is bad enough to cheat a man when he is well and when' he ris pros perous but this religion comes to a man when he is sick, and "says: "You will be well again after a while; you are going into a land where there are, no coughs and i.o pleurisies ?andno consumptions and. no languishing take courage and bear ; up." , ..-.Yea; this awful chimeraof the gospel comes to the poor and it says to them: 'You are, :on your way to vast estates and to dividends always declarable.'' : "This delusion of Christianity "comes- to the bereft, and it 'talks of reunion before the throne and of the cessation of all) sorrow And then to show 'that this delusion will stop at abs6lutely',noth ing, it gops'to the dying be J iiud fills the man' - with anticipations.; -IIow much better it would be fori him to havelnnrdie without any more hope tnan swine ana - rats and , snakes That is all. Xothing more left of h m. He will never know anything again, bhovel him under! The soul is only a superior part of the body, and. when.the body disinte grates the soul disintegrates. - ,Ann." hilates, vacancy, everlastingblank: obliteration, ;."Vhy not present all these beaufafuldoctrmes to the dying:. insted of coming with this hoax, thi3 swindle of the Christian religion, and filling the dying man with anticipa tions of another . life, ,until -some in M.VU! ...MVVLUVUU, UUUS and some', have shouted, and some the last hour have clapped their hands won. liut, no. In his dying hour he beg3 the Lord . Jesus Uirist for meroj.. ,, . .- . . , i 1 have sung, and some h .re been so overwrought with joy they could 0 ly loot ecstatic. PaLce gates ope . . . . 1 g, they thought; diamonded coro- nets flashing, hands beckoning, ort chestas soundincr. Little, children (1yirl5, actually believing they saw their, -departed parents, vio that, '.- X "-7 x -7 although the little children had been nn'itrnnlr .1 J?U1 .T i." 1. J .1 J. .'. . so weak and feeble and sick for weeksj hc'y'could not turn on .'their1 dying pillow, at the list, in a paroxysm of rapture uncontrollable, they sprang -o their, teet "and ' shouted: "Mother catch me, I am coming!" And ', to ' . show the immensity of .it- -w this delusion this awful swindle' - 6 the gospel of Jesus' Christ, I" open a hospital and bring into that hospital the deathbeds of a great many Chais- .ian people, and 1 take you by the hand this morning, and I walk un anddown he wirdjof that hospital and 1 ask a few questions. ' I. ask: "Dying Stephen, what have you - to sayl'" "L ;rd Jesus, receive my spirit." "Dying J.ohitW-csleyy what have you to say?" "The best , of allGod is with U3." ''Dying Edward Payson, what-have you to say?" "I float in a sea of glory." "Dying 'John Brad ford, what have you to say?" If there be any way of going to Heaven on horseback, or in a fiery chariot, it is this", "Dying Neader, what have you to say?" , "I am going to sleep now good night.", ' "Dyings Mrs. v lorencc 1- oster, what have you v to sayr" "x pilgrim in the vally, but the mountain tops are - all agleam from peak. to 2eak. .Dying Alexander Ma ther, what have vou to say?" '.'The Lord,- who has taken eare of me fiftV years, will not cast me off now; ff'o'rv be to God and to the L imb: Amen, amen, atuen. amoa!" D vin v ".Tnh n Powson, after preticuing the gospel so many years, .vhat.have you to say? "My death-bed,, is a bed of roses. i' Dying Doctor Thomas Scott, what have you to say.-" --"This is heaveu begun." .."Dying soldier in the last war, what have yon to eay?" "Bo s, I am croinrr to the front." "Dyin telegragh operator on the battlefield fy i - o 5 . . . . .. w juu . iy out , " i lie wires ars ail laid, and the poles are up from Stony Point to head- 'liters." "Dying Paul, what have Jou to say?" "I am ready now to be i . w offered, and the time of my departure is at hand; I' have ; fought the a fight, I have finished my course, I havelvept the faith. - O deathj .where is thy sting? O grave, where is- th v victory? .Thanks be nnto God, who givith us the victory through -.our Lord Jdsuf Christ'' O my Lord, my God, whata delusion; wh,it a glo rioas d lu3ion! Submerire me with it: fill my eye3 and ears with it, put it und.y my dying head for a pillow -this de lusion spread it over me fra cano py, put it underneath me for an out spread wing roll it over mo in ocean surges 10,000 fathoni3 deep! O, if infidelity, and if atheism, if annihila tion are a reality, and the Christian religion is a delusion, give me the delusion! . The strong conclusion of every man and women 111 the house is that Christianity producing such grand results cannot be a delusion. ' A lie, a cheat, a swindle, an hallucination: cannot launch such a irlorv of flic! centuries. Your logic and your com mon sense convince vou that a bad cause cannot produce an illustrious -win 11 1 4- AXk . . 1 r iclhu, uuuui tue worn d 01 sncn a monster no such angel- can be born. There are many i 11 this house this morning, in the galleries and on the main floor, who bejjan with thinking that the Christian religion-wa3 a stu pid farce, who have come to t.h mn. elusion that it is a reality. Why are you here to-day? Why did: you sing this Bonr? r AVI-iv rl this BOn2?-r Yv'hv did von hnvr tronr liead in the opening prayer? Why uju utHiiiiy wnn your Why, when I tell you of the "ending of all trials in the bosom of God, do tnere stand tears in your' eyes not tears of irrief. but tears of inv snp.h iia stand in the eyes ot nomesick children iar away at scnool when some one talks to them abont onina-linmo Why is it that vou on.n hp. sn rnltrTw J ww, rx a. ii a. j one, about whose'-departure you once wore so Jingry ana so rebellious:' There is something : .the m;iter with you. All 'your friends have found out there is a jrreat change. And ir snma nf you -would give your experience, you would give it in v scolarly style, and others giving your experience would .arive it in broken . sfvle. hut t.lw miol cAj:JCiicuu vvwuu oe jusu as goou ii the other - Some of you " luiye read everything. Yon are scionr.ifiir. iinii you are scholary, and yet if I should ass you : 4 vv nac is the most sensible thing von ever did"' you wonlrl bav The most sensible thin : I ever did wa3 to give my heart to God." But there may be others burn wi n have not had early advantages, and u tney were asked to give their ex perience they might rise and give such testimony as the man gave in a prayer meetinsr when he ssnrh .- "On my way here to-night, I -met a "man I.I i r . who asked me whee I wras p-oino T said: . 'I am sroinsrto Draver mftintr He said: There are a good many re- q 7 , v--,.. w.av. . . 1 .... 7 u J i. L L IVTIil are delusions: as to the Christian rp- lgionvtnat is --only a notion, that is a! have sunar, and some h..ve been notion, thTChraY I said to ' him: . : 'Stranger, you see that, tavern over there.. 'Xes, ne said, 'I see it.' 'Do you see me?': 'Yes, of course I see you,' 'Xowf the time was, as everybody m tins town knows, that if I had a quarter of a dollar in my pocket I could hot pa33 that tav ern without roinr,'in and srettinjr uaihu., an me pjupm ui ofiicievm, y . Moore, Uiiairman, j. aru -couldnotkeep meoutof that place; j but God has changed my heart: and 4 - ; the Lord Je3us Chris has destroyed my thiist for strong drink, and' there no temptation Jo go in : there; and, w my Avuois.weeivS wages, uu a i iwc stranger, if this is a notion, I want tos ten you it is. a mignty power! ul no tion; it is a notion that nas put ctutnea oh my children's back, and it is t no tion that has put good-;,food on our table, and it is a notion'that ha3 filled my mouth with thanks giving to God.V . And, stranger, you had better go along with, me, you might-get rebgion, too; ots of people are getting religion now."- ' - - . . - Well, we will soon understand' it all. Your life and mine .will soou be over. " We" will soon come to the last bar of the music, to the last act of the tragedjf, to the last page of the bookyea; to the last 1 imp. and in t.h last word, and to you and to me it win ener De mianoon Or midnight. 'iPiedsnoiit Aiy-Idae Richmond and Ganviire-System, CONDENSED SCHEDULE IN EFFECT DEC. 19. 1886. , J Traixs' Rujt by SOUTHBOUSp' ' io- 1- DAILY. No50. No. Ijv. iSew xork "v ; Philadelphia ,, Baltimore : AVashintrton 12 13 u'gt 340 pm 5 42 8 00 " 11 wi 3 00 a m 5 15 0 dU a iu 45 ' 9 00 1 43 p m 4 05,, - it caariottesvile Lynchburg r Richmond Barkevillo T . ti Keysville - Dralco's 13r'chv ,, Danville. " . Greensboro Goldsboro Italohh ,, Durham 1 ,,v Chapel Hill ,, Hiilsboro - 1S0. 3 24,. ' 404 v. 4 IS) - 7 03 9t5 . 11 50 am ' 4 3.1 p iu 5 42, 4 23 22 .. . 2 30,, 4 25,, .5 04,, 5 21 . 8 05 43 5 00 p m II 44 a 111 . l I . H do C30 ' 10 16 11 23 12 39 p m ' 6 55 ' 9 39.,,.., 11 59 ,, ' 1 00 3 34." "448 " 10 40 " ISoJ 53. 8 40 a m 2 JJ2 p m " 3 4;i " , G23 " 7 25 " 8 01 " 9 08 ' 9 47 Salem . 6 40 High Point j 9 37 :- Salisbury , 11 00 p ru Ar. States ville. ' , r " ' Asheville, , ' ' " .;Vann Spr'gs - . Lv. Concord, 1143 ' " Charlotte . 12 45 am apartanburar v 3 yy ; " (ireenvillrt 4 ."35 " , 11 40 am o. 51. '7 00 pm 1 02 a m 2 17 5 05 " 6 01 " 0 41 7 54 . 8 23 ' . -11 28 " . ' Ar. Atlanta NoTiimmisi). : Lv... Atlanta Ar. Oreeu ville N ' '-'Spartanburg " Charlotte .. ' Concord -" Salisbury ' High Point " Greensboro- " " Salem ". Hiilsboro " Durham - " Chapel Hill " llaleigh ' (ioldsboro- Danville - - .. Drake's Br'cli Keys ville Burkeville Richmond Washington Baltimore - Philadvlphia New York " fll 20 p m ia ij p m 4.1 a iu 12 41 - 4 -15 1 20 - . - 1 50 " 8 5 4 40 " 11 2 " 10 10 am 11 28 m 12 45 p m 2 41 a m 1 04 1 43 - 3 45 1 05 pm C 3 , X 23 11 25 3 00 a m . C20 ..- " 01 ,, 3 & , G 40 2 00 410 8 30 10 03 .. s12 35 p ru 3 20 Daily, except Sunday. ; SLEEPING CAP. SKTIVIP.F! , Oa trains 50 and 51, Pullman Buffet oieepers between rsew York and Atlanta On trains 52 and 53; Pullman JiuCet sleepers betrween Montgonierv and Wash insrton - and Aiken and WkkM On trains 52 und 53, PuJleinaiu Sleeners 1 A. . . T -m . . Greensboro and llaleigh. ; Through tickets on- ale at principal Bkutious io an i)Oi-'is. ! For rates aud information apply to any oi me company, or to 1 ' -, Sol. IIAas, T. M, or Jas. L. TAYLOll Qen'l Pss. Agen?, AV.-..shingtoh.. D. C. CAPE PEAK & .YADKIN VALLEY HAIL P.OAD COMPANY ' , Cohdexskd. Time Tabi.k. To 1ako .ffecc "at 1 p.m , Sun lay, Dec ' - ' 4880. -' 4 MAIS-LINK Trais NiRTir. Arrive. 9 37 a m 11 37 -1 55 p m - .L-ate Ben ettsville oe Ileel . Fayetteville "" San ford Ore Hill Lit ersy ' Greensboro Pond , o 30 a m 9 47 1155 . ' 215p'm 3 20 4 23 6 15 5 45 '7 45 ninnT at Ranfofd. Tratn South. Arrive. 9 01 a m Pond ' Greensboro w Lib'-rtv ' 1 . Loave.. 7 30 ' 10 00 a m 11 25 12 25 pm 2 00 415 6 15 - re Hi"ll -- Sanferd - , 1 40 n m Fayetteville ' 4 5 Shoe Heel ' - . ' 6n Bennettsvi-le v 7 25 Iinner at "anfor-1. Freight and Passenger Tr..in leaves Bennettsvillo Monday, We'nesd-.y i nd Fr day at 1 -30 p. m.arrives at Shoe He l at 6 65 pm. leaves S'100 Heel at 4 10 r. m., and arrives at Fayc ttevi le at 7 45 p m. Fre'ght and P s.dlger : Train leaver Fayetta ville Monday. AYednesday rn 1 Fri day r; 6 0 ) a. m , arrives at S oe II el at 9 22 srm , leaves Slioe Heel at 10 15 a m. , and arrives at Bennettsvi e at 12 2) p- in. -F eight ah .Paseier Train North leaves F yetteville dai y a't 10 00 a. m., ar rive? at Sanford at2 30a. m.,. leaves San- ford at 3 30 p. m., a d xrrives Oieensboru at 9 00 p in ; 1 - Freight and Pa senger Train t . . ... . Sout'i leaves uree sooro aaiiy at 8 5 a. m ar rives at Sanf.Td.at 3 15 p, m , leaves Sa 1 ord at 4 00 p. m. , and arrives at Fay tt i'lleat 7 50 p. m.' - W. ,E. KYLE, Gen'l T asS.- A"'t J. W. FUY. Gea'l sup't. . Chairman Wm. Love, , - Greensboro ', Secretary J."V. Albright -" - .' - Greensboro. r Cextral Ex. CoMiirrTEES. TOWXSHIP EX. COUinTTEES. j xorehead liobt'Siddons, Chairman, J. II 31. Baxter, 1 D. Weaver ' A. C. Wray, Orpheus McAdoo Gilmer W. S. Moore; Chairman, W . . . A. Coe, J. M. Ward,' J. L. Hon- drix, Jas. Dean. High Point E. E. ifendenhall, , Chairman Joel Anderson, bol " I. Blair, Jonathan E. Cox, Moge Navlor. ' Summerfield F. S. Blair, Chairman, l Rev. T. J. Ogburn, G. J. Smith, Green Tass, John Bunch, llev. David Cornell. Friendship John L. "Woody Chair- : T T TT.T.I.. T t (J man, u. iiuuus, ouaqm to. Worth, John Pitts, F. P. Green Jeaf, John W. Mebane. - Madison Geo. W. Lemons, Milton T. ' Wagoner, Wm. P.; Fields, li. C. Rankin. . Fentress C. IL Russell, Rolandna Fentress, C. V. Harden, Ilarrie Crawford, . Greene Dr. W. A. Coble, D. F. Bernett, Dr. Wyatt Mclsairy Rev. J. W. yS. Causey,' A. G Amick. Sumner-D.X. Hadgin, J, H. Davis A. T. Millis. Oak. 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