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The Grenada Sentinel.
j. W. BUCHANAN, Manager and Proprietor.
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VOLUME XLVI.
GRENADA, MISS., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1900.
NUMBER 21.
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I Mississippi Matters. !
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NOTES of past and current events.
i Bv J. L. POWER. |
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MISSISSIPPI IN THE CIVIL WAR.
of the Field Officers, Regiments nnd
Battalions In the Confederate
States Army, 1861-1865.
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Xldrt,-Third (Hunt'll) Infantry Regiment ^
Drake, .Tabez L., Major, Lieutenant
Colonel. Colonel.
Hall, Robert J., Major. I
Harrod, John, Major, Lieutenant
Colonel, Colonel.
Hurst, David W„ Colonel.
Johnson, William B., Lieutenant
List
COM PILED BY TIIE DEPARTMENT OP
WAR RECORDS AT WASHINGTON.
A*
the
Colonel.
Thirty-Third (llsrdcas tie's) Infantry Reg
meot.
(Consolidated with Forty-fifth Ml**l»slppl.)
Charlton, Richard, Lieutenant-Colo
the
oel.
Hardcastle, Aaron B., Colonel.
Jones, Theodore A., Major.
Thirty-Fourth Infantry Regiment.
(Also called Thirty-seventh.)
Benton, Samuel, Colonel.
Falconer, Thomas A., Major.
Mason, Armistead T., Major.
J'egrain, William G., Major.
Wright, Daniel B., Major.
Thirty-Firth Infantry Regiment.
Barry, William S., Colonel.
Holmes, Thomas F., Major.
Jordun, Chas. R., Lieutenant-Colonel.
Shot well, Reuben H., Lieutenant
Colonel.
Watson, Oliver C., Major.
(Col. Barry was president of the Se
cession Convention.)
Thirty-Sixth Infantry Regiment.
Brown, Dury J., Colonel.
Brown, Edward, Lieutenant-ColoneL
Harper, S. J., Lieutenant-Colonel.
Partin, Charles P., Major.
Witherspoon, William W., Major,
Colonel.
Yates, Alexander, Major.
Thirty-Seventh lufantry Regiment.
Holland, Orlando S., Lieutenant-Col
onel, Colonel.
McGee, John, Major.
McLain, Robert, Colonel.
Patton, Wm. S., Lieutenant-Colonel.
Terral, Samuel II., Major, Lieuten
ant-Colonel.
Wier, William W., Major, Lieutenant
Colonel.
(Col. Terral is a judge of the supreme
court.)
ly
An
Thirty-Eighth Infantry Reflment.
i Afterward Mounted lofautry.)
Adams, Fleming W., Colonel.
Brent, 1'reston, Lieutenant-Colonel,
Colonel.
Foxworth, Franklin W., Major.
Keirn, Walter L., Major, Lieutenant
Colonel.
MeCay, Robert P., Major.
Thirty-Ninth Infantry Regiment*
Durr, R. J., Major.
Ross, William E., Lieutenant-Colonel.
Quinn, W. Monroe, Major.
She 1 by, W. U., Colonel.
Fortieth Infantry Regiment.
Campbell, Josiah A. P., Lieutenant
Colonel.
Childress, James R., Lieutenant
Colonel.
to
to
be
23,
S.
Colbert, Wallace Bruce, ColoneL
Gibbens, W. McD., Major.
McDonald, Enoch, Major.
Wallace, George P., Lieutenant-Colo
nel, Colonel.
I TO BE CONTINUED.]
If any errors appear, will be thunk
hil for corrections.
Mlsalsslppl Banking.
Auditor Cole has compiled a com
parative statement of the condition of
•State bunks in Mississippi on Septem
ber 2, 1900, showing the following
totals:
RESOURCES.
J899.
1900.
Decrease, in two items...,
Increase....
Wet increase. 3,336,556.84
Number of banks report
ing in 1899.
Number of banks report
ing-in 1900.
rncrease.
.$17,446,405.27
. 20,782,962.11
156,328.39
.... 3,492,885.73
92
107
15
Twenly-Flr»t Infantry Regiment.
Fiuau's Point, Nov. 17, 1900.
Dear Col. Power—In your list of field
officers of the Twenty-first Mississippi
Regiment you have this; "FitzGerald,
D.II., lieutenant-colonel, colonel." I
major and lieutenant-colonel, but
not promoted to colonel. Col.
Moody was colonel when the surrender
I was the only field officer
"ith the brigade for about three
months before the surrender, and had
command of the brigade during that
tune and up to its capture, three days
before the surrender of Gen. Lee. Very
truly, j, FitzGerald.
Th© Cape Jeasamloe Nominated.
Col. Power—I have been asked, in behalf
of the
occurred.
to
is
primary school of Meridian, to sug
gest the ('ope Jessamine for State flower.
in flower grows only on Southern soil,
tmi is kuowu to all Mississippians by its
peat beauty aud fragrance.
R^ysctfully*) Willib A. Brown,
irincipel Primary School.
POWER. |
The Ninth and Tenth Rngimanta.
® 0LLT 8pr,nos ' Minn., Not. 1, 1900.
. . ! Bf F o1 ' Pow ®r—Will you please
£^21 • b0 " tt " t th6
in.ngur.tion of the e vil war, that there
ganized before th. Ninth nndTemlT whkh I
were organized at pi- 1
whlch WMe the flr>t orgaD , Ied f or tha C(m . !
((Mierate serviceT These two_Ninth end
Tenth—drew lots for seniority. Col. Chal
mere was lucky and became colonel of the
Ninth, Phillips of the Tenth. Thee, regi- I
ments were the flnt forth, twelve months ,
service.
were two brigades
• I
I remember them werei already two
brigades, provided for in some way, in the
State, perhaps by Oov. Pettus. Alcorn
commanded one and Clark the other, and
Rube Davis, as I remember, commanded
the division. Now tell me, how is it that
the Ninth Mississippi Regiment of the Con
federate army was not the First? My 1
company
March, 1861, by Richard Griffith of Jack
son. afterward colonel of the Twelfth Regi
ment.
mustered here
the 27th of
As I understood, the order of the Con
federate regiments
First—Ninth—Chalmers, colonel.
Tenth—Phillips, colonel.
Eleventh—Falkner, colonel.
Twelfth—Griffith, colonel.
Thirteenth—Barksdale, colonel.
Fourteenth—Baldwin, colonel.
Fifteenth—Harrell, colonel.
Kixteenth—Posey, colonel.
Seventeenth—Feat herston, colonel.
Eighteenth—Burt, colonel.
Nineteenth—Mott, colonel—first
mustered for the war.
The above I remember, aud knew the
colonels as well as many others personally.
Borne of the eight first regiments—the two
brigades referred to—as I remember, were
sixty day enlistments. Were all of them
such in the first instance? W
troops—the army or the State? If I mis
take not, Gen. A. M. West was chief
quartermaster and commissary and Col.
Jones 8. Hamilton was adjutant-general.
How is it? Your friend.
was:
they State
Wm. M. Strickland.
In the Mississippi volume of the
"Confederate Military History," recent
published, this explains a matter
that has not been understood by many
others even as well informed as Major
Strickland:
On January 23, 1801, the Secession
Convention adopted the following:
An ordinauce to regulate the military sys
tem of the State of Mississippi.
Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the people of
Mississippi in convention assembled, That
one division of volunteers be
early as
ustered into ser
practicable enlisted and
vice by order of the Military Board, here
inafter constituted, to serve until dis
charged,
consist of four brigades, each brigade to be
coni]>osed of two regiments, aud each regi
ment of ten companies of infantry or
riflemen, and each company of not less
than forty eight nor more than
dred
hereinafter provided, aud to
hun
; and also not exceeding ten com
panies of cavalry of not less than fifty
men each, and not exceeding ten
panies of artillery of not less than sixty
each, and that the volunteers so
listed shall not be
the officers of the militia.
bject in any manner
Sec. 2. That the eight regiaieuts of in
fantry or riflemen shall be raised as follows
(here follows a list of the counties allotted
each regiment. The companies of
airy and artillery to be raised indiscrim
inately from the 8tato at large).
Thus it appears that agreeable to
this ordinance eight regiments were to
be raised within the State.
This ordinance was adopted January
23, 1861. In March of the same year,
some two months after, the first troops
that went out from the State of Missis
sippi went to Pensacola, Fla., and w<
there numbered by Gen. Griffith.
The passage of the ordinance was
notice to all the world, certainly to
Mississippians, that eight regiments—
which of course would be numbered
from one to eight—would be raised
within the State. What
natural than for Gen. Griffith to begin
numbering the first troops that went
out from the State as nine and ten?
None of the eight regiments were
"sixty day" troops. They were mus
tered "to serve until discharged," and
most of them got their discharge on
bloody battle-fields and in army hos
pitals. The sixty day men served out
their enlistment in camp at Bowling
Green, Ky., under Brig.-Gen. James L.
Alcorn.
In the first announced staff of the
commander-in-chief, Gov. John J. Pet
tus, Gen. W. L. Sykes^ was adjutant
general. He was succeeded by Col.
Wm. H. Brown, aud *he by Col. Jones
Hamilton. These officers were
tive, zealous and successful in organiz
ing and equipping troops for service.
vas more
The Commercial Appeal, in referring
to Bishop Gailor in a deservedly com
plimentary way, speaks of liiia as a
native of Memphi
that he was born in Jackson, Miss.
His father was in the >newspaper busi
ness in Jackson from 1854 uutil the
breaking out of the war, when ho re
moved to Memphis, enlisted in the
Confederate service, aud was killed at
Berry ville.
Our impression
Death of Martin Rothschild.
We note, with sincere regret, the
death of Martin Rothschild, at his
home in Woodville, on the 15th instant.
He was one of the most benevolent and
charitable
When we visited Woodville
we have ever known.
some years
ago, the principal of the public school
told us that he had a standing order
from Mr. Rothschild to furnish book*
to all children who could not afford to
buy them, llis talk and contribution
to the children at. the orphan asylum in
Natch «' "hen the grand lodge of
p ythians paid that in8titution a visit ,
" iU not " on forgotten. And last
Ma Y» when in the same grand lodge at
Columbus, this writer proposed a hat
co ^ <H ' L '°n for the Palmer Orphanage,
ancl ' ve asked for 8100 and got *85, Bra.
Rothschild whispered to
mind, Bro. Power, I'll make it *100."
His death is a substantial loss to Wood
us, "Never
ville, where he has resided and pros
pered for twenty-three years. He was
j n the forty-fonrtli year of his age.
j j t.
A Vote for State Flower.
Hattibhuuro, Nov. 20, 1900.
Col. Power—The city schools at this plac*
gladly co-operate with you and with the
other schools of the State in selecting a
State flower.
The following is our vote:
For Magnolia, 394; Cotton Bloom, 362.
F. F. Phillips.
Yours,
State Flower—A Choice Expressed.
The following is in response to a re
quest from an expression from one who
is excellent authority in floriculture:
Columbus, Nov. 20, 1900.
Dear Col. Power—My choice for the
flower for Mississippi is the Maguolia. It
is a typical Southern flower, while the Nar
cissus and Chrysanthemum are not. The
Yellow Jessamine or Calecauthus would tie
more appropriate than the latter. They
wild flowers of our State, as is also tho
Magnolir. Please do not let the Chrysanthe
mum or Narcissus be selected.
Your friend. Maky B. Hakkisox.
Roster of Field Officers.
It should be understood that tho
roster of field officers appearing from
week to week was compiled in the War
Record Department at Washington, and
is made from such muster rolls and
other documents as were found in Rich
mond at the capture of that city April
3, 1805. Our special object in publish
ing is to correct any mistakes and sup
ply any omissions, so that when all this
and other data may be placed on per
manent record it may be approximately
correct. We publish a correction by
Col. W. II. Fitzgerald as to his own
rank in the Twenty-first Regiment, and
we have others on file.
The merchants of Terry have signed
and published an agreement to close
their respective places of business on
Thursday, November 29, 1900, "and
stay closed the entire day." Thanks
giving Day ought to be so fully and
faithfully observed as not to require
any formal agreement to "close the en
tire day.' All public offices aud all
places of business should be closed and
thus express gratitude to our Divine
Ruler, as well as respect for our earthly
rulers.
Secretary of State Power,
in his
weekly press article, makes the inter
esting statement that there are three
living members of the Legislature of
1846: Our venerable and esteemed coun
tyman, ex-Justice Simrall, the Hons.
J. S. Bailey of Tallahatchie and J. II.
Thompson of Brook haven. Fi
summit of their four-score years and
more, what changes do these survivors
of a vanished epoch look back upon.
What memories do they recall!—Vicks
burg Herald.'
the
Th© "l'ralrle Guards.*'
Extract from a letter from Gen. 8. D.
Lee; "I was at a reunion the other
day and the roll of a company was
called and every man accounted for—
when killed, captured, living. The Prai
rie Guards, of Crawford, in this county,
have a printed pamphlet accounting for
. Many of the counties, like
every
Adams, have gotten up the records of
companies in permanent shape. A little
system, and much perseverance, will
uncover it all."
When the roll of the next Congress is
called three good and familiar names
will not answer to Mississippi—T. C.
Catchings, John M. Allen and Patrick
Henry of the Seventh District; but
others, of recogutzed capacity aud
worth, will help to make our delegation
equal to any of same number in the
National House.
The Slate Flower.
Miss Jessie Riley, principal of Egypt
school, writes: "As Mississippi is
of the leading cotton States, why not
include the Cotton Bloom in the list?"
The list is not restricted—it is open to
the entire floral kingdom, and the
Cotton Bloom appears to have many
favorites.
The public roads of Yazoo countv are
to be worked by contract, each beat to
be worked separately. The Board of
Supervisors at their meeting December
8 will receive bids for a term of four
years from January 1, 1901.
The Meridian fair opened
Monday,
the 20th, and was very successful in all
departments. Lieut. Hobson was the
gue,it of honor, and was the recipient
of special courtesies by patriotic
aud appreciative people of East Missi?
sippi.
THE GADABOUT EVIL.
Dr. T0 Image Deplores the Prevail
ing Spirit of Unrest.
CbrlNtlnn Stability the Source of Use
and Happiness— Val
a Fixed Spirit
dltlon.
fulii
>t
il Con
[Copyright, 1900, by Louis Klopsch.]
Washington.
From an unusual text Dr. Talmage
in this discourse rebukes the spirit of
unrest which characterizes so many
people, and shows them the happiness
and usefulness to be found in stability;
text. Jeremiah2:36; "Why gaddest thou
about so much to change thy way?"
Homely is the illustration by which
this prophet of tears deplores the vacil
lation of the nation to whom he wrote.
Now they wanted alliance with Egypt,
and now with Assyria, and now with
Babylon, and now they did not know'
what they wanted, and the behavior of
the nation reminded the prophet of a
man or woman who, not satisfied with
home life, goes from place to place, gad
ding about, as we say, never settled
anywhere or in anything, and he cries
out to them: "Why gaddest thou
about so much to change thy way?**
Well, the world has now as many gad
abouts as it had in Bible times, and I
think that that race of people is more
numerous now than it ever was. Gad
abouts among occupations, among re
ligious theories, among churches,
among neighborhoods, and one of the
greatest wants of the church and the
world is more steadfastness and more
fixedness of purpose.
It was no small question that
Pharaoh put to Jacob and his sons
when he asked: "What is your occu
pation?"
pation not only d
welfare, but
destiny,
worn
stead*of asking God what they ought to
be or do they, through some vain ambi
tion or whimsicality, decide what they
ought to be. Let me say to all young
men and young women in homes or in
school or college do not go gadding
about among occupations and profes
sions to find what you are fitted for,
but make humble and direct appeal to
God for direction.
While seeking Divine guidance in
your selection of a lifetime sphere ex
amine your own temperament. The
phrenologist will tell you your
proclivities. The physiologist will tell
you your physical temperament. Y
eaknesses.
e say, nervous, do
rgcon. If you are coward
ly. do not become an engineer. If you
are hoping for a large and permanent
income, do not seek a governmental
position. If you are naturally quick
tempered. do not become
the Gospel, for while anyone is disad
vantaged by ungovernable disposition
there is hardly anyone who enacts such
an incongruous part as a mad minister.
Can you make a fine sketch of a ship
or rock or house or face? Be an artist.
Do you find yourself humming ca
dences, and do the treble clef and the
;
the right occu
ides your temporal j
ay decide y
The reason so many men nnd
dead failures is because in
Getting int
r eternal
ental
ill tell v
enemies
If you are, ns
become
inister of
musical bars drop from your pen eas
ily, and can you make a tune that
charms those who hear it? Be a musi
cian. Are you born with a fondness
for argument? Be an attorney. A
you naturally a good nurse
pecially interested in the relief of
pain? Be a physician. Are you inter
ested in all questions of traffic and in
bargain making? Are you apt to be
successful on a small or large scale?
Be a merchant. Do you prefer country
lif£, and d
and
like the plow, and do
iic in the rustle of a liar
>
you hear m
vest field ? Be a fa
\ Are y<
fond
heels
you follow
ew kind of
fter h
of machinery, and are ti
to you a fascination, nnd ca
with absorbing interest a i
thrashing machine hour i
Be a mechanic. If you enjoy ana'.} zing
the natural elements and a laboratory
could entertain you all day and all
night, be a chemist. If you are in
quisitive about other worlds and in
terested in all instruments that would
bring them nearer for inspection, be
on astronomer.
If you have no one faculty dom
inant and nothing in your make-up
seems to point to this or that
tion, shut yourself up in your own
room, get down on your knees and rev
erently ask God what lie made vou
for, and tell Him that you are willing
to do anything He wishes you to do.
Before you leave that room you will
find out. But for the sake of your
usefulness and happiness nnd your
temporal and eternal welfare do not
join that crowd of people who go
gadding about among business and
occupations, now trying this nnd now
trying that and never accomplishing
anything.
Last summer a man of great genius
died. He had the talents of 20 men in
surgical directions, but he did not like
surgery, and he wanted to be a
preacher, lie could not preach. I
told him so. He tried it on both sides
of the sen, but he failed, because he
turned his back on that magnificent
profession of su. r gt*ry, which has in
our time made such wonderful achieve
ment that it now heals a broken neck
and by the X ray explores the tem
ple of the human body as if it were
a lighted room. For 40 years be
gadding about among the professh
Do not imitate him. Ask God what
you ought to be, and He will tell you.
8
ir?
ccupa
vas
It may not be as elegant a style of
work as you would prefer. It may
callous and begrime your hands and
put you in suffocating atmosphere
and stand you shoulder to shoulder
with the unrefined and may leave your !
overalls the opposite of aromatic, but j
remember that if God calls you to do
as
a
one thing you will never be happy in
doing something else.
All the great
trained th
lessee have been
gh opposition and strug
gle. Charles Goodyear, the inventor,
whose name is now
nil the
t
synonyi
vorld over for fortune added to for
aded many y
chii
deep
tune,
through the
thrust in debtors' prison and came
with his family to the verge of star
vation. but continued his experiments
with vulcanized rubber until he added
orld's scorn and was
more than can be estimated to the
world's health and comfort,
to hi
John Fitch, and Stephenson and Rob
ert Bruce, and Cyrus W. Field and 500
ere illustrations of what te
well as
Columbus and
n advantage.
others
nacity and pluck can do. "Hard pound
ing." said Wellington at Waterloo,
"hard pounding, gentlemen, but we
will see w
can pound the longest."
Yes, my friends, that is the secret,
not flight from obstacles in the way
but "who can pound the longest."
The child had it right when attempt
ry a ton of coal, a shovelful
, from the sidewalk to the
ing to c
n<
at a * i
cellar, nnd
you expect to get all that coal in with
that little shovel?" And she replied:
ork long enough." By
the help of God choose your calling
and stick to it. The gadabouts are
failures for this life, to say nothing j
of the next.
There are many who exhibit this
isked her:
"Do
"Yes, sir, if I
frailty in matters of religion. They are
ything that pertains |
their eternal destiny
•thev
^
not sure about
their 'soul
Now tin
are
sby- I
if inspired. 1
-vords or the ideas were J
hether only part of the
are Unitarians, and n<
v tin
are Universalists,
Methodists, and now they are 1
terians, and now they a
all. Th
id m
nothing at j
are not quite sure that the j
Bible was inspired or,
whether the
inspired or
Book was inspired. They think at one
time that the story in Genesis about
the garden of Eden is a history, and the
month after they think it is nn alle
gory. At one time they think the book
of Job describes what really occurred.
but the next time they speak of it they
call it a drama. Now they believe all
the miracles, but at your next inter
view they try to show how these
scenes had nothing in the
ural, but can be
pernat
?counted for bv nat
ural causes. Gadding about among re
ligious theories and never satisfied. All j
the evidence is put before them, and j
why do thej' not render a verdict? If !
they cannot make up their mind with *
all the data put before them, they I
'er will.
* J
ho j
are going !
hither and yonder looking for that .
which they find not. Their time is all |
My text also addre
's those
in search of happines
take
ith "musica
d "pro- ,
up
and yel- I
es," and
gressive euchres, and tea
low luncheons, and "at lie
dances, and operas, and theat
instead of finding happiness, they get
pale cheeks, and insomnia, and indi
tion, and neuralgia, and exh
tion, nnd an abbreviated lifetime.
There is more splendid womanhood
sacrificed in that way in our cities
than in nnv other
s; and. ;
The judg
ful
k r '
!V
ment day only can reveal the
holocaust of jangled nemos and the
suicidal habits of much
f our social
life. The obituary of such reads well,
for the story is suppressed about hov.
they got their death while standing
In attire of gauze,
carriage on a raw night, on the front
steps
aiting for the
While in
;Heir lifetime they
bilitv for the relief
;sed all the
poss<
of pain nnd impoverishment, yet they
have no time for visitation of the
poor, or to win the blessing of such
as comes upon those who administer
to those who are ready to perish.
Enough flowers in their dining halls
to bewitch a prince, but not one tuft
of heliotrope to perfume the room of
that rh
mati
the back street, to
the breath of one flower would
be like the opening of the front door
of Heaven. Find
vh<
or one
ho in all the rounds of pica
? and selfishness has found n pie
as that half dol
lent and Christ
one
in
f happiness os lar
hich the be
the palm of the
hand of that mother whose children
are crying for bread. Queen Victoria
riding in triumph through London at
her jubilee was not so sublime a fig
ure as Queen Victoria in a hut near
Balmoral castle reading the New T
'tament to a ]>oor dying man. Let all
the gadabouts for happiness know
that in kindness nnd usefulness and
self-abnegation are to be found a sat
isfaction which all the gayetie* of the
world aggregated cannot afford.
Among the race of gadabouts are
those who neglect their homes in order
that they may attend to institutions
that are really excellent and do not
so much ask for help as demand it.
I am acquainted, ns you are, w ith worn
members of so many boards
of direction of benevoleut institutions,
and have to stand at a booth in so many
nd must collect funds for so
many orphanages, and preside at so
many philanthropic meetings, and are
expected to be in so many different
place* at the same time that their chil
dren are left to the care of irrespon
like soul puts int
en w h
fairs,
tractive that the husband spends hi*
evenings
The children of that house are
thoroughly orphans as any of the
fatherless and motherless little one*
aible servants, and if the little one*
waited to say their prave
mother's knee they would never say
their evening prayers at all.
woman
at their
Eucli
k
her own home so unat
t the clubhouse or the tav
gathered in the orphanage for which
that gadabout woman is toiling so in
dustriously. By all means let Chris
•omen foster charitable institu
tions and give them
time os they can spare, but the first
duty of that mother is the duty she
owes to her home.
But no one can take a mother'*
place, and it is an
that mother ■makes
home duties for any church meeting,
however
ian
mucb of their
rful mistake that
who sacrifices
important, or any hospital,
however merciful, or any outside benefi
cence, however glorious and grand.
Not understanding this,
when we try to give statistics as to ho
many Christiana there a
churches and in the world. We un
derstate the facts. We look over our
church audiences on the Sabbath or
mistake
in our
eek service and conch
!e that
ir
they represent the amount of piety in
that neighborhood. Oh.no! There ai
many most consecrated
found in churches,
those houses with large familii
children and little or no hired help,
ich of the year thei
ils that are
Look into
of
For
mother g
mceti
down
ease and no
*oi
ill.
nd a s;
•ial guardian
are
ime can that
much
it<
e to chu:
hen most
ith scarlet fe
•bes and prayer
imily are
ave colds
now one kind of dis
nother? That mother
s the
ho at church
f the f;
hi
that threat
Lord
atching at ho
the 1
e as much p
lother
♦akes th
ent or in the
ission
bool tells the waif* of the street how
They may become sons and daughters
the Lord Almighty. That mother
deciding the destiny of the
she leads that boy
into right thinking and acting and is
deciding t.he welfare of some fut
home by the example she is setting that
girl, and though the
»acr;
honn
state by the
vor.d does not
appreciate the unobserved work Heav
en watches and rewards. On the other
hand, you have known women who
are off at meetings humanitarian and
philanthropic, planning for the desti
tute and the outcast, while their own
children
their garments m
ashed and unkempt,
eding repairs, their
d themselves a
to the community
ent un
mam
general nuis
hieh th«
live
One bad habit these gadabouts, mas
culine or feminine, are sure t
and that is of
They hear so nia
about others and see s
wrong behavior tha
ge t,
caudal distribution,
y deleterious thing*
much of
they are loaded
up and loaded down with the faults of
others, and they have their eyes full,
and their ears full, and their hands
full, and their mouths full of defama
tion. The woman who is endowed of
her bonnet
easily unti
p can so
strings and sit down to spend the aft
ernoon. A man can afford
u a cigar
as a retain
all he has t
not pay their debts, or are about to
fail, or are guilty of
have aroused suspii
All gadabouts are peddlers,
ho unpack in your presence their
large store of nux vomica and night
shade. Such gadabo.uts have little
prospect of Heaven. If thev got there
thev
if y<
YM.l pt
about those
iently hear
ho can
>ral
ishap, or
of embezzle
ent.
ould trv to
create jealousy
among the different ranks of celes
akc trouble among the
Heavenly neighbors, and start quar
rels seraphic, nnd would be on per
petual run. now down this street and
now up that, now in the house of
man}' mansions, and now in the choir
of the temple, and now on the walls,
and now in the gates, until they would
be chased down and pushed out into
the pandemonium of backbiters nnd
slanderers after Jeremiah had ad
tials and
dressed them in the words: "Why
gaddest thou about 60 much to charge
thy way?"
Now, what is the practical use of
the present discourse? This: Where
have ruined themselves
ma
lined oth<
by becoming gad
and
abouts among occupations, nmong re
ligious theories, among churches,
among neighborhoods; therefore,
solved, that we will concentrate upon
what is right thought and right be
havior. and waste no time in vacilla
tions and indecisions and uncertain
ties, running about in places who
we have no business to be. Life is
short we have no time to play with it
the spendthrift. Find out whether
the Bible is true and whether your
nature is immoral, nnd whether Christ
is the Divine and only Saviour, nnd
whether you must have Him or be
discomfited, and whether there will
probably ever be a more auspicious
moment for your becoming llis ad
herent, and then make this 12
nt noon of November 25, 1900, th
illustrious mipute that y
have passed since the day
birth until the ten millionth cycle of
the coming eternity, because b} com
plete surrender of thought nnd will
and affection and life to God through
Jesus Christ you become n new man,
il, nnd God the
Father, nnd God the Son. and God the
lloly Ghost, and all angeldom, cher
ubim and seraphim, aud archangel U*
came your allies
'dock
most
ever
ian. n nt"