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HENDERSON, N. C, THURSDAY, MAY 31, 1894.
NO. 23.
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ODE TO THE CONFEDERATE DEAD.
11Y CSC Alt W. KLACKXA.LL.
Stionj; Kianit seek the skies !
Ktenial stone arise!
To honor our Southern dead,
To honor the men who shed
Their life-blood for the right.
With retrospective eye
1 see them throng to die
On fields their valor made "
Names that can not fade
From history's greatest page.
Our precious heritage.
Not Olory holds the hav
Hut duty points the way
When at Carolina's call.
Their Spartan mother's call
From cabin hearth ai:d hall.
From station great and small
They gather to the fight.
They have resistless might.
Carolina, from thy breast,
Thy sturdy, rock-iibbed breast,
A lit memorial wrest
For these, thy sturdiest sons.
Thy dutious, gallant sons.
Who faced the hostile guns :
Who, at thy stern behest,
Forward to battle pressed,
Nor counted gain or loss
15eneath the starry cross,
Who fought and starved and bled
With all but honor dead
When Hope itself had Hed
Who more than won success.
Who won the deathless fame
That belongs to the spotless name.
Theirs tin! happy lot
From our name to wash the blot,
Hy envy cast of old.
Oispi aise was put to shame,
Detraction hid its head
Hefoie men of such mold,
Whom Lee with pride hath led,
Who under Jackson sped
loom Held to lid. I of fame
And on the bloodiest field
Won their country's sword and shield.
Ah ! not till they were low
( 'aim: victory to the foe !
From where against our ranks
The Noithern hordes were hurled,
Till on Appomattox's banks
The starry cross was furled.
'Twas only o'er our dead,
Our ow n Confederate Dead.
That hostile foot could tread,
'ould tread without recoil
The sacred Southern soil ;
'Twas only over the graves.
The earth encunih'ring graves,
Of our uiicottined braves
That the invader came,
That we were put to shame.
Kise, granite shaft, and stand
A beacon in our way '.
Kise gianite shaft and hand
The example of that hand.
That more than Spartan hand,
Down to remot days.
Let not their fall be vain
From even this loss give gain ;
Far more than victory,
Than laurels ev.tr won.
Is the example of duty done,
if men who would not shun
F.ven death when liberty
railed from her inmost shrine,
Called forth with voice divine,
Hade them her ransom give,
Hade them their heart's-blood give,
Hade die that she might live.
And to the example high
Ah. never let it die '.)
O! I lie intrepid iiie in Orey
We owe that to this day
She Mill with us abides,
S!"(ll in our midst resides.
'Twa that that made us hold
Her garment's hem to hold
i hiomh Hit: dark and hopeless Wftys
of reconstruction days.
I 'poii thy face, proud stone.
Nor name nor deeil be shown ;
Simplv be it said
" To M It COXKKDEKATK DEAD."
Not all the shafts that rest
Fniiuai rieil in thy breast,
, .Mother state, could hold
In smallest characters told
F.very worthy deed,
f those who in thy need.
Who in thy sorest need.
Stood a living wall
Uetween thee and the foe..
Width thi:y might overthrew,
Which might perish, fall.
Hut w hich could not retreat,
Could not survive defeat.
Honor all as one !
Honor one' as all !
Know neither great nor small,
Oreater than patriot none,
Yea, patriot to the core
The humblest man who bore
A musket in the strife
And for conviction gave his life,
The highest could be no move, '
Whether w ith breasts unsuarrfeil,
With hope as yet unmarred,
He.neath the banner barred
They fell most gloriously
When a battle meant a victory ;
r purged of every dross
Heneath the star strewn cross,
In deadly trenches pent
Their shattered frames were spent
Till wounds or fell disease
(lave their gallant souls release,
It recks not how or where
That highest pledge was given,
F.nough to know that there
A hero's life was riven.
And those other Southern Dead,
For whom no tear was shed,
No other stone lias riseu
The Southern w omen true,
(iive them their tardv due,
At heart ! At heart ! they bled ;
At Home as in a prison
They could only hear afar
The harrowing sounds of war,
In strife could take no part,
While every ball that sped,
I'.very ounce of Federal lead
Smote them full within the heart,
The man could die but once.
The woman a thousand times ;
The body dies but once.
The heart a thousand times.
Those issues noy are past :
;;avo sunk within the vast
And should no longer cast
Their shadow over our lives.
Let prejudice abate,
Away with sectional hate ;
Honor the brave and true.
Whether in Grey or Blue,
Hut one point never yield.
One truth forever shiel'i :
As sure as rolls the sun.
Or on the centuries rr n
That these men, that they
Who w ith hoiloj- wore the Grey,
Were patriots evey or.3.
That motives purer, higher.
More patriotic lire
Did never breasts inspire.
Nor men more true and bold
A juster cause uphold.
A man with a brcken leg is liable
1 1 do a good deal of darning while the
lei; is knitting.
A Wet Blanket.
The Father
vou, does he ?
' le wants, to
What do you
marry
know
about him ?"
The Daughter He is a sincere
Christian."
The F- " Has he any money?"
The D. " He has a treasure laid
up in Heaven."
The F. He has, has he ? Then
he can have you after he comes into
possession of it." New York fress.
Although it is not claimed that Ayet's
Sarsaparilla cures every ill to which flesh
! is heir, vet, as a matter 01 jact, it bohi
nearer doing this than anv other medioine
ever compound. la purifying the blood,
it removes the source of nearly all dis
orders of the human svtem.
HANDSOME TRIBUTE
TO NORTH CAROLINA'S
LANT DEAD.
GAL-
Capt. Mason's Eloquent Oration
Delivered at the Laying of the
Gorner-Stone of the Confeder
ate Monument in Raligh A
Graceful and Scholarly Pro
duction, and a Fine Contribu
tion to History.
The following is the address, in full,
of Capt. Thomas W. Mason, delivered
at the laying of the corner-stone of the
Confederate Soldiers' Monument on
May 22nd :
Ladies and Gentlemen :
North Carolina bids us pause to-day
and consider the memory of her
soldiers those whom she gave to the
Confederacy.
I know that you are busy with your
affairs, that the demands of duty press
upon you. I (ear that disappointed
hopes and failing fortunes may distress
some of you ; I am sure that the weight
of years is now laid upon those who
have survived their comrades.
Repeating the message of our beloved
State, I entreat you to come away
from your cares and sorrows to-day ;
and let us stand with hearts aglow,
and with uplifted heads,
presence of our heroic past
The day invites us. It
independence day. It is our
in the
is our
day of
glorious memories. Now, and through
all the years to come, it is our Con
federate Monument day. For this
day, our mountains have given their
lairest treasure into the hands of
woman, and she has brought this
treasure reverently into our midst.
Our brothers have taken it gratefully
from her hands, and laid the stone in
its place. We watch and wait with
swelling hearts. Voices fall upon the
ear again that have been still since our
camp fires went out. We feel the
touch of elbows again ; our lines are
forming ; our ensigns stream above us;
our bugles are calling. The stone,
which you have laid in place to-day,
my brothers, shall be lifted up ! And,
by its side and from its summit, he
shall look into our faces again our
comrade, our brother ; " bone of our
bones, and flesh of our flesh ;" brave
as he who followed the Eagle of Rome,
or the Lilies of . France ; our Confed
erate brother; he who was first at
Uethel ; he who was nearest the foe at
Gettysburg ; he whose rifle gave the
last salute to the flag which was folded
with immortal honor,
We have waited loag enough to
consecrate this stone. History approves
and demands it. They who were our
foes, but who are now our friends, -tsk
that it be done. The passing years
have laid their hands, in blessing, upon
the head of our comrade, and
deepened the halo about his name. If
the courage of the soldier, untainted
by evil pqrpose, is the noblest gift of
time j if the memory of Grant is sacred;
if the name of Lee is our priceless
heritage ; then, have we waited long
enough to dedicate this stone to the
memory of the North Carolina Con
federate soldier.
What moved him to leave his plow
in the furrow that he might struggle,
unto death, with his brother of te
Torth ? Was he not happy at home ?
Pid he not love his wife and children?
Had he not hewn from the forests his
fruitful fields? Were not his barns
filled with rich harvests ? Had he not
altars at which to worship ? Had he
no name or history to love and
cherish? Was he not taught to
reverence the Constitution next to his
Bible? Was he a disturber of the
peace ; a hater of his fellowman? Did
not all the graces of a generous host
adorn his fireside? Did the sun, in
his course, shine upon a fairer land
than his ? What moved him to leave
his hearth-stone and go forth., with
dareqed brow and compressed lip, tq
struggle and die ? We know that no
lust of power ; no worldly gain ; no
pride of life moved him. He was
never an aggressor. His keen sense
of what was due to himself, made him
careful of the rights of others,
careful was he ; so regardful of
So
hi$
acts : so caatiows in moving forward ;
go contented with
the portion which !
God and his own right arm had given
him, that his neighbors bantered him ;
for his homely virtues, and likened
hiin to the good-natured dutchman
who was said to have fallen into a
peaceful repose that he slept until the
stock of his fowling-piece crumbled
with decay at his side. A,nd yet our
good-natured sleeping comrade sud
denly awoke to such deeds of valour
that "the world wondered," and
declared that he must take his place
with heroes, while his neighbors were
happy to share the glory of his deeds.
What moved this peace-loving,
God-fearing, contented man, happy
within the shadow of the vine that
climbed about his cottage door, to go
forth against his brother of the North ?
Let it pot be said that in a moment of
unreasoning haste, he tore asunder the
ties of home and kindred, and rushed,
like a madman, upon the sword of his
adversary. His lour years of hard
endurance gives higher meaning to his
courage. Rather, let it be said ot him
that he loved the union of these States.
The blood which flowed in his. veins,
unmixed with alloy, had warmed the
hearts of the men who struck the first
! blow for Independence. In the county
j of Alamance, hard by the old stage
I road that leads from Hillsboro to
; Salisbury, a stone has been planted
and on it are engraved these words :
I "First battle of the Revolution. Here
was fought the battle of Alamance the
15th of May, 1 771, between the
British and the Regulators." Here
by this stone was poured out the first
libation to American Independence.
Four years thereafter, on the 20th
of May, 17 5, the listening ear of
North Caroli 1a heard the cry that the
men of Massachusetts had been slain
at Lexington. And no more, save
from hostile camps, did the ensign of
Britain wave over her soil. Then, it
was enough for her to know that the
nivaucts 1001 was upon me sou 01 a
sister State. Can the sons of Massa
chusetts ever forget how the battle cry
of Lexington was answered? Can they
ever forget how they and the sons of
North Carolina locked their shields
until King George, on the 20th day of
January, 1783, calling each one by
name, treating with each one of thern,
declared these States "to be free,
sovereign and independent."
Let it be said of our comrade that
he loved the Union, but, let it also be
said of him, his proud lineage taught
him that his own beloved State and
her sister States were sovereigns. He
remembered how those, whose name
he bore, had refused to enter the
Union, under the Constitution until
the sovereignty of North Carolina and
the liberties of her citizens had been
assured. In all the years of peace,
while. he tilled his fields and reared his
children, he had been taught to guard
this treasure committed to him with
that supreme devotion with which the
sons of Israel guarded the walls about
their sacred city. In all these years ot
peace, he rejoiced in the strength and
glory of the Union as it broadened
toward the setting sun. By the fireside
he had heard his sire tell of 181 2, and-
of Lundays Lane, and how he marched
against the Indians with the warrior
Jackson, whom North Carolina gave,
with many other noble gifts to her fair
daughter beyond the mountains. He,
himself, had marched with the star-
spangled banner and cheered it as it
waved m triumph, over the halls of
the Montezumas.
Let it be said of him that he loved
the Union ; that he loved the arts of
peace; that he loved repose ; but, let
it also be said of him, his repose was
never so prolound that the tramp ot
the advancing host failed to arouse
him.
In 1861, as in 1775, his sensitive
ear caught the first foot-fall of the foe
upon the soil of .the State that holds
the ashes of Washington, it was
enough. The plow stood still in the
furrow ; the unuttered good-bye was
caid with quivering lips and straining
eyes; the door of his home closed
behind him, and he went forth to
battle. By his side, through all the
firey struggle, be it said, was one whose
love for him was as the love of Jon
athan for David ; given him strength
and comfort ; caring for the stricken
ones whom he had left behind j guard
ing the honor of the cause for which
he bled j and when all seemd lost, save
honor, leading him by wise counsels,
away from the sorrows of war to the
victories of peace. We would that
this one were with us to-day. How
our hearts would burn within us to
hear his voice and look into his face
again ! But he sleeps well where we
have laid Kirn, with out loye for him
as lasting 45 the mountains that guard
his resting place our great war
governor and leader; but, as we
tenderly think of him now, our comrade
! and brother, Vance !
It was strange and terrible to see
these men of the South and of the
North, shed each others' blood. They
spoke the same language ; they
worshiped at the same altars; they
had been school-boys together; they
had shouted together in the shock of
battle; and, together they had filled
the world with their victories of peace.
No ray of light touched the glory of
their country, that did not fall, with
its benediction, upon them both. And
yet, above the contentions of thj
White and Red Rose ; of Cavalier and
Round-Head ; of Bourbon and Jacobin,
there was a solemn grandeur in their
struggle. Can the Union live by
force? The North answered, yes ; the
j South answered,, qo. And this momen-
; tous question of government was to be
settled in the stormy comitia of arms,
Each thought he had " his quarrel just,"
and thus thrice-armed rhey strove.
Two millions of men of the North
stood to arms ; six hundred thousand
of the men of the South stood to arms.
How grandly they strove, shaking the
ocean with the tramp of monitor
and ram, and teaching new warfare to
the nations of the earthi
How they strove, while the storm of
battle howled up the valleys, and over
the mountains, and across the plains,
shrieking and hissing into the ear of
the pale wife as she knelt by the bed
side of her children, and prayed for
the husband upon whose breast the
pitiless storm was. breaking! How
they strove, while their flocks and
harvests perished, and their homes
were consumed, and want and hunger
came, and, through thedreary watches
of the night," and widowed wife sat
looking, with wan and weary face,
upon the dying child in her arms,
while the currents of its life ran dry in
her aching breast ! Brave women of
our land, what tongue can tell your
devotion ! There was no soldier's arm
you did not nrrve ; there was no
soldier's couch of suffering you did
not pillow with your gentle hands ;
there is no soldier's grave your love
has left unblest ;
If. history shall say of that man of
Uc ouuui auu v uie ruim uiai nicy j
irmed-iq. goiogtQ battle against each the 30th of July ; and when his flag
other it will re- snre to say also that 'bearer was shot down, "the Captain
their rich offering of blood has opened
wide the everlasting mansions of glory
for the cause each fought for.
How did our comrade bear himself
in this supreme test of virtue ? Let us
follow his shining lance, and see the
grim face of war radiant with the
sublime, courage of the soldier.
History startles us with its record. A
military population of one hundred
and fifteen thousand "men ; an army of
one hundred and twenty-five thousand
men ! In all the annals of the earth
is there a nobler record of heroic
endeavor ?
Let us follow our brothers, as they
pour over the James, thirty thousand
of them, in the June days of 1862
encircling Richmond with their dark
gray lines, near one third of those who
had gathered for its defense; standing
with their faces to the North ; waiting
"for the struggle of the Seven Days to
begin ; waiting for Jackson, the Eagle
of the army to swoop down from the
mountains ; waiting for Lee to speak,
whose voice in battle was, to them
from that day forward, as the voice of
God ; and when he told them to go
forward, see how they and their
comrades twist McClellan'sarmy, with
their strong grapple, back and forth
across the Chickahominy, striking him
blows of iron, day in and day out,
until sore and weary, as the day closed
upon the field of Gaines' Mill, he sat
down and wrote to his Government
that he was beaten, and that his only
hope was to escape from his fierce
pursuers ; and five days thereafter, Lee
rode back from Malvern Hill, praising
his soldiers and regretting that he had
not captured the Union Army. See
how they go, on the morning on the
17th of September, 1862, double
quicking from the right to the bloody
Heft, at Sharpsburg ; sweeping proudly
into line, and staying, like a wall of
granite, the torrent of the battle as it
comes rushing in over the dead bodies
of Hood's brave Texans. See how the
foe recoils from the deadly blast of
their rifles ; see how they drive him
back with yells of defiance, restoring
our lines, and standing in their ranks,
through the day and through another
day, as firmly as the solid earth
beneath them. Read the record of
their daring at Chancellorsville, the
death-bed of Jackson, in the early
days ot 1863 : One hundred and
thirty-one Confederate regiments under
fire ; twenty-five of them from North
Carolina ; ten thousand two hundred
ana eigniy-one Confederates killed
and wounded; two thousand nine
hundred and forty-eight of them from
North Carolina. See how they move
their torn battle flags above the crest
of the struggle, at Gettysburg, as it
moves along its track to death, up the
slopes of Cemetery Hill, urging
forward with the throbbing of their
hearts ; and when the fateful storm is
over, when the crest of the battle rose
highest, there lies our comrade by the
side of him, of the North, whom
the peace ot death has made again his
brother. As we look into their faces,
side by side, the one clad in gray, the
other in blue ; each aglow with the
spirit that has brought them thus
together, to the open portals of
immortality, can we say of either that
he has sinned? Shall we follow our
brothers, as they hold in check the
unbending will and mighty forces of
Grant, through the fire and smoke of
the wilderness, in the trenches at
Petersburg, along the sullen retreat,
until the end came, and Lee bade
them adieu, with his blessing that has
followed them, and made them, patient
and heroic in peace as they were great
in war?
Shall we measure the glory of ' our
comrade by the treasure of his blood?
Then read this record : Fifty-two
thousand nine hqndred and fifty.-four
Confederates killed in battle; fourteen
thousand five hundred and twenty-two
of them from North Carolina ; twenty
one thousand five hundred and seventy
Confederates died of wounds ; five
thousand one hundred and fifty-one of
them from North Carolina ; fifty-nine
thousand tw;o hundred and ninety
seven Confederates died of disease ;
twenty thousand six hundred and two
of them from North Carolina. Forty
thousand two hundred and seventy-five
sons of North Carolina gave lives to
the Confederacy, more than one-third
of her military population; nineteen
thousand six hundred and seventy
three of the sons were killed in battle
or died of wounds, more than seven
teen per cent of the military popula
tion, while the average loss of the
Confederate armies was ten per cent.,
and of the Union armies five per cent.
Read this record of the 26th North
Carolina regiment of Pettigrew's
Brigade, at Gettysburg, the conflict of
the century. It carried into action
over eight hundred men , eighty of
them were left, and history has
declared: "This loss of the 26th
North Carolina, at Gettysburg, was
the severest regimental loss during the
war," in which seven hundred and
sixty four Confederate regiments and
two thousand and forty-seven Union
regiments were engaged. Read the
thrilling story of Capt. Tattlis com
pany, on this same field of death, that
the last of all its officers and eighty
three out ot eighty-four of its men
killed and wounded ; and of Capt.
Bird's Company C. of the Eleventh
North Carolina, of this same noble
Brigade, that lost two of its officers
and thirty-four out of thirty-eight of
its men killed and wounded, in the
engagements of the first two days;
and these four who remained took
their places in the historic charge ot
brought out the flag himself."
Near the town of Winchester, in
Virginia, they set apart a Soldiers'
Resting-place, after peace had come ;
and when those of our sister State,
who loved the memory of the brave,
had brought thither the soldiers of the
Confederacy who had fallen near their
homes, lo, the dead of North Carolina
held so large a space, among their
comrades of other States, that this
silent witness' moved their hearts to
renown ; and they sent here for our
beloved comrade, Vance, to come and
speak to them of these men whose
noble dust gave honor to the soil of
Virginia.
ShalV we say of- the Confederate
soldier that he died in vain? Shall
we say of his mighty struggle that it
has no higher meaning than defeat?
Shall we stand above his grave and
declare that all was lost but honor?
From the smoking altar of his sacrifice,
is there no incense to virtue ? Does
the world bless him only who wears a
crown of laurel ? Is there no beauty
oh the brow that wears a crown of
thorns? Were the oracles of God lost
to men when his chosen people passed
under the yoke of Rome? Were the
laws and language of Rome lost to
the world when the Goth struck down
her Eagles? Was Cromwell lost to
Britain when the Stuart came back to !
her throne ? j
The Confederate soldier has not i
died in vain. History will tell the j
story of his death and passion, that 1
men may be lifted up by the example j
of his devotion to the memory of his
fathers. If they, did not die in vain
who fell at Moore's Creek Bridge, at j
King's Mountain, at Guildford, at
Germanton, at Brandywine, at Prince- j
ton ; then their sons did not die. in
vain who fell at Bethel, at Manassas, j
at Richmond, at Sharpsburg, at
Fredericksburg, at Chancellorsville, at
Gettysburg, and on every field, where
they sealed with their blood, the
covenant made with their fathers, that
this should be a Union of Sovereign
States, with a Government of expressed
powers limited by the letter of the
written compact. For this covenant
they died. That no sinful hand might
be laid upon it, they took up arms.
That no jot or tittle of it might fail,
they drew the sword. The cause, for
which they died is not the lost cause
of a dead Confederacy ; but it is the
vital cause of a living Union, its soul
and strength ; its only hope of future
life , and without which, it will dissolve
and pass away like the smile of a
'dream upon the wrinkled face of
time.
The Confederate soldier has not
died in vain. The lesson he has lelt
us is the only counsel that can save the
life of our Union, When history shall
call the names of those who have been
truest to their trust, in the ranks of
war, the men of the Gray-Union will
uncover to their names and take their
places in the world's Legion of Honor.
My brothers, the memory of your
comrade will not lade. In the twilight
of the years to come, it will be as the
luminous star which led the Eastern
worshipers, where a new life had come
to abide among men, long enough to
teach them how to live like heroes and
die like martyrs. The daughters of
North Carolina will point our children
and our children's children to that
star. They will never turn their faces
from the Confederate soldier. They
gave you your battle flags wet with
the dew ot their tears, and in that
sign and with their prayers, you made
the name of North Carolina noble.
With each returning spring time, the
grave of your comrade blooms out
afresh as they lay their hands upon it.
To-day, they have embalmed his
memory in stone. They have given
you this token of their love that shall
not fail. Let us lift up this token of
their love, my brothers ! The light of
the morning will bless it ; the glory of
the evening will hallow it ; the patient
ctars will watch over it ; and the calm
face of our comrade will teach us
courage for the day and hope for the
morrow.
Ye men, who wore the Gray, you
have been brave in peace as you were
strong in war. You have lifted North
Carolina up in your arms, and made
her as true to our Union'as the bride
is true to her marriage vows. By your
patience, peace and order and hope
are ours. Elsewhere, in our Union,
there is trouble, Social disorder vexes
the son of the patriot, and the cry of
distress pains the heart of him who
loves his fellowman. Teach others
the lesson of your patience. Teach
them to right the wrong, as you. have
done, by the wisdom of the law and
the purity of its administration. Teach
them to be true, each to his sovereign
State, as you are to North Carolina.
And, by this shrine which her daughters
have consecrated with their love, let us
to-day renew our vows to our Sovereign
1 Queen, the brightest jewel in whose
crown is the memory of her soldiers
whom she gave to the Confederacy.
An old citizen in a country village
being asked for a subscription toward
repairing the fence of the graveyard
declined, saving : "I subscribed to
ward improvin that buryin' ground
nigh unto forty years ago, and my
familv hain't had no benefit from it
yet."
Work Well lone.
Cedar Kapim, Iowa. I suffered with
dvssepsia and disordered liver and would
f reouentlv throw ns bile. I procured a
l bottle or Simmons Layer neguiatoi, and,
j after using half of it was completely cured.
1 On3 of my lady customers told me the
other day that .Simmons Liver Regulator
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completely eared ber of sick-beadaebe.
VITAL RELIGION.
What it is and How We are to1
Practice It.
TXew York Herald. J
l'ure religion and un defiled liefon1
(.'(Ml
and the fat her. .lumen, l:l!i.
Xo more succinct statement of what
1 is essential 111 me lormatiou ot a re
j liious character was ever made.
I We are told in simple lauguage,
j which the humblest can understand,
j that God's requirements are few ; that
j this life can be made worth living, aud
! the other life anticipated with pleasure,
j by obeying two injunctions uamely,
i being helpful to those who are strug
! gliui? with adversity and keeping our
souls clean aud wholesome.
I If "pure religion and uiideriled,'"
embodied in our daily actious, will in
sure the approval of God, aud if it con
sists iu doing all the good that lies in
our power and iu makiug for ourselves
a record of impregnable houesty, then
we must agree that religion is indis
pensable and we can no more afford to
live without it thau we can live with
out a roof over our headn or food for
our table.
If the Church will pardon us for the
criticism, we should like to say that it
has taught men to look at life from the
wroug standpoint. It tells us that we
must believe certain doctriues before
he can lead a certain kind of life.
These doctriues are of a complex char
acter and sharp controversy arises. If
we must believe before we can live,
then unless we believe we cannot live,
aud many a noble soul has lost its grip
on the higher life because it could not
make the doctrine intelligible or even
reasonable. That is a misfortune of
the gravest kind and one to be grqatly
deplored. When the Church says to a
man, you must accept this and that
dogma, and accept it with the shade of
meaniug which 1 ascribe to it, it makes
religion too much of an intellectual
process, while the spiritual process is
lost. If a man rejects the dogma he is
apt to think that dogma is an essential
element of religion, whereas iu very
truth it is nothing of the kind. That
mistake may prove to be fatal, and his
whole life may be blighted.
On the other hand, when a man is
told that since this is God's world, and
he is God's child, be must therefore
seek the approval of God by being of
service to his fellows encouraging the
weak, lifting up the downtrodden, de
fending the oppressed, setting an ex
ample of honorable dealing which will
be attractive to others there is no
room for controversy, and the whole
debate possible is as to the best way
of accomplishing these results. He
may begin this work without any don
mas whatever, may not kuow that
there is such a document as a creed in
existeuce, but you cannot deny that he
is a loyal follower of the Christ. He
need not hesitate to carry his pure
motives, his uprightness, his self-sacrifice
to the foot of the Throne and need
have uo fear that he will not be wel
comed by angelic hosts.
Moreover, he cannot long pursue
such a course without becoming, in its
best sense, a firm believer. He may
not accept all the Thirty-nine Articles,
but that is of no consequence. He
will accept the general principles ou
which the earthly career of Jesus was
based, and the moral law which He
proclaimed iu such startling phrases
that we cau hardly resist calling it a
revelation.
He will not only believe in a God
who rules the world wisely aud justly,
and in a Providence which overleoks
the experiences which come to each
one of us, but will perforce reach the
conclusion That this God has arranged
things iu a fatherly way.
When he is seeking tor an ideal life,
the best conceivable life, the life after
which it would be. perfectly safe to
model his own, he will find it iu the
Christ, and the record of it in the New
Testament. The great example will
impress itself on his mind, and his re
spect for the Nazarene will grow to
admiration, and his admiration will
increase uutil it becomes worship.
r urther than this, he will see at a
glance that there is aright and a wrong
in the universe. He does not know
how evil originated, neither does he
care. It is suthcient that it exists and
that ho min t avoid it if possible. It is
plain to linn that the right enlarges the
soul and makes it strong, healthy and
happy, while wroug hampers his action
and makes him cowardly. It does not
take long then to discover that it is
always better, even though it be at
great cost, to maintain the right than
to surrender to the wrong.
Once more he sees that no man com
pletes his work iu this life, and as in
completeness is an anomaly in a wisely
governed world, he reaches the con
clusion that beyond the confines of the
present there must be a future ; that
death it only another name for change,
aud that he has nothing to dread when
that change comes.
He began by liviug a good life but
while living it be has gradually ac
quired a series of beliefs which consti
tute his greed. It is not the creed of
the Church, but it is quite sufficient
for all his purposes. Xo Church an
afford to reject him for he stauds where
St. James stood when he wrote the
words of our text, and where Christ
stood wheu He preached the Sermon
on the Mount.
He has in his soul all the essentials
of a vital relLriou, is equipped to live
and prepare for immortality.
Sobbing Wife Three yean ago you
swore eternal love, and Brutal
Husband How long do you expect
eternal love to last, anyway ? Hello
Ueaerviuf Praia.
We deire to sar to our citizen, that
for years we have been celling lr, King's
New Discovery for Consumption, Ir. King'
New Life Pill. Cucklen's Arnica Salve
and Electric Kilter, and have never han
died remedies that eel! as veil, or thai have
given uch nniveral gathdactiort. We do
not hesitate lo guarantee them every time,
and we stand ready to refund the purchase
price, if satiKfactory results do not folio
their ue. These remedies have won their
great popularity purely ou their merit.
Melville Itoner. druggist.
ir. T. Baker
North Pembroke. Mass.
After the Grip
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A Bad Cough, Very Weak
physically, In fact my system was completely
rundown. I tried a imttlo of Hood's Sarsapa
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It has done wonders for me, hs 1 have not been
c free from my old pains and troubles since Urn
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war. I consider Hood's Sarsapat ilU a (iod-ieut
Messing to the suffering." William J. ISakkk.
KortU I'ombroke, Mass.
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