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ENCOIJKAUING WORDS. Rev. Dr. Talmage Delivers a Dis course to the Downcast. The Story of Jolt t’sed to Illustrate the fuel lli.it Man May Go to the Very Brink and .'May Vet be saved Through Faith. The fo'ltming discourse by Rev. T. De \\ ill i almage contains words of t-n --comae< incut to those who through worldly troubles, are depressed in spirit. it is based on the text: I am escaped with the skin of tnv teeth. - Job Xix.. 20. Job hud it hard. W hat with boils, and bereavements, and bankruptcy, and a fool of a wife, he wished he whs dead; and 1 do not blame him. His flesh was gone, and his bones were dry. His teeth wasted away until nothing but the enamel seemed left. He cried out; “1 am escaped with the skin of my teeth.” There has been some difference of opinion about this passage. St. Jerome and Schultens, and Doctors (rood, and Poole, and Barnes, have all tried their forceps on Job's teeth. You deny my interpretation, and say: “What did Job know about the enamel of the teeth?” He knew everything about it. Dental surgery is almost as old as iA ie earth. The mummies of Egypt. ' t | iou . Bands of years old, are founio with gold iilling in their teetlr, Ovid and Horace, and Solomon, ay\| M O scs wrote about these important/ factors of the body. To other pt’P’. oki coin . plaints, Job, [think added an ex asperating au j putting his hand against th^ {uflalued faeC| hesays; teeth' I ’’ eSCai^''1 with the skin of m y A very- uaiTOW escape, you say, for °’ H body and soul; but there are 1 lousands of men who make just as narrow escape for their soul. There was a time when the partition be tween them and ruin was no thicker than a tooth’s enamel; but, as Job finally escaped, so have they. Thank God! thank God! Paul expresses the same idea by a different figure when he says that some people tire ‘ saved as by tire.” A vessel at sea is in flames. The boats have shoved off. The flames advance; you can endure the heat no lo iger on your face. You slide down on the side of the vessel, and hold on with your fin gers until the forked tongue of fire begins to lick the back of your hands, and you feel that you must fall, when one of the lifeboats comes back, and the passengers say they think they have room tor one more. The boat swings under you —you drop into it— you are saved. So some men are pur sued by temptation until they are par tially consumed, but after all get off— “saved as by fire.” But 1 like the figure of Job a little better than that of Paul, because the pulpit has not worn it out; and I want to show you, if God will help, that some men make narrow escape of their j souls, and are saved as “with the skin of their teeth.” It is easy for some people to look to the cross as for you to look to this pul pit. Mikl, gentle, tractable, loving, you expect them to become Christians. You go over to the store and say: “Grandou joined the church yester day.” Your business comrades say: “That is just what might have been expected; he was always of that turn of mind.” In youth this person whom I describe was always good. He never broke things. He never laughed w hen it was improper to laugh. At seven, he could sit an hour in church, per fectly quiet, looking neither to the right hand nor to the left, but straight into the eyes of the minister, as though he understood the whole dis cussion about the eternal decrees. He never upset things nor lost them. He floated into the kingdom of God so gradually that it is uncertain just when the matter was decided. Here is another one, who started in life with an uncontrollable spirit. He ■ kept the nursery in an uproar. His ! mother found him walking on the edge ! of the house-roof to see if he could ( balance himself. There was no horse I that Re dared not ride —no t-ee that he | Could not climb. His boyhood was a long series of predicaments; his man hood reckless; his midlife very way- ! ward. But now he is converted, and i you go over to the store ami say: “Arkwright joined the church yester day.” Your friends say: “It is not possible; you must be joking. -- You bay: “No; 1 tell you the truth. He joined the church.” Then they reply: “There is hope for any of us if old Arkwright has become a Christian!” In other words, we will admit that it is more difficult for some men to accept the Gospel than for others. 1 may be preaching to some who have cut loose from churches, and Bibles, and Sundays, and w ho have no intention of becoming Christians them selves, and yet you may find yourself escaping, before you leave this house, as “with the skin of your teeth.” I do not expect to waste this hour. I have seen boats go off from Cape May or Long Brunch, and drop their nets, and after awhile come ashore, pulling in the nets w it hout having caught a single fish. It was not a good day, or they had not the right kind of a net. But we expect no such excursion to-day. The water is full of fish, the wind is in the right direction, the Gospel net is strong. O, Thou who didst help Simon and Andrew to fish, show us how to c.iii the uet on the right side of the slim. Some of you, in coming |o God, wil have to run against skept. ml notions. It is useless for people to say sharp and cutting things to those who reject the Christian religion. 1 can not say such things. By what process of temp tation, or trial, or betrayal, you have come to you. present stale. 1 know not. I here are two gates to your nature; the gate of the head and the gate of the heart. The gale of your head is locked with bolts and bars that an archangel could not break, but the gate of your heart swings easily on its hinges. If 1 assaulted your body with weapons you would meet me with weapons, ami it would be sword-stroke for sword-stroke, and wound for wound, and blood for blood; but if I come and knock at the door of your house, you open it, and give me the best seat in your parlor. If 1 should come at you now with an argu ment. you would answer me with an argument - if with sarcasm, you would, answer me with sarcasm; blqw» f or blow, stroke for stroke; ly.£* t when I come and knock at thy- ( ] ooro f V our heart, vou open it say: “Come in, my brother, and tellq ue H |j you know about Cnrist and Yleaven.” Listen to z V,*vo or three questions Are you ar, happy as you used to be believed , u the truth of the *'’ .istian religion? Would you like to have your children travel on in the road in vhich you are now traveling'? You had a relative who professed to be a Christian, and was thoroughly con sistent. living and dying in the faith of the Gospel. Would you not like to live the same quiet life and die the same peaceful death? 1 hold in my hand a letter, sent me by one who has rejected the Christian religion. It says: “1 am old enough to know that the joys and pleasures of life are evanescent, and to real ize the fact that it must be com fortable in old age to believe in some thing relative to the future, and to have a faith in some system that pro poses to save. 1 am free to confess that I would be happier if I could ex ercise the simple and beautiful faith that is possessed by many whom I know, lam not willingly out of the church or out of the faith. My state of uncertainty is one of unrest. Some times 1 doubt my immortality, and look upon the deathbed as the closing scene, after which there is nothing. \\ hat shall I do that 1 have not done? Ah! skepticism is a dark and doleful land. Let me say that this Bible is either true or false. If it be false we are as well off as you: if it be true, then which of us is safer? Let me also ask whether your trou ble has not been that you confounded Christianity with the inconsistent char acter of some who profess it? You are a lawyer. In your profession there are mean and dishonest men. Is that any thing against the law? You are a doc tor. There are unskilled and con temptible men in your profession. Is that anything against medicine'? You are a merchant. There are thieves and defrauders in your business. Is that anything against merchandise? Behold, then, the unfairness of charg ing upon Christianity the wicked ness of its disciples. We admit some of the charges against those who pro fess religion. Some of the most gi gantic swindles of the present day have been carried on by members of th church. There are men standing in the front rank in the churches who would not be trusted for five dollars without good collateral security. 'They leave their business dishonesties in the vestibule of the church as they go in and sit at the communion. Having concluded the sacrament, they get up, wipe the wine from their lips, go out and take up their sins where they left off. To serve the devil is their regular work: to serve God a sort of play-spell. With a Sunday sponge they expect to wipe off from their busi ness slate all the past week's incon sistencies. You have no more right to take such a man's life as a specimen of religion than you have to take the twisted irons and split timbers that lie on the beach at Coney island as a speci men of an American ship. It is time that we draw a line between religion and the frailties of those who profess it. Do you not feel that the Bible, take it all in all, is about the best book that the world has ever seen? Do you know any book that has as much in it? Do yon not think, upon the whole, that its influence has been beneficent? 1 come to you with both bands extended toward you. In one hand 1 have the Bible, and in the other hand I have nothing. 'This Bible in one hand 1 wHI surrender forever just as soon as in my other hand you can put a book that is better. 1 invite yon back into the good old fashioned religion of your fathers —to the God whom they worshiped, to the Bible they read, to the promises they learned, to the cross on which they hung their eternal expectations. You have not been happy a day since you swung off; you will not be happy a minute until you swing back. There is a large class of persons in midlife who have still in them appe tites that were aroused in early man hood, at a time when they prided them selves on being a “lit tie fast," “high livers,” “free and easy,” “hail, fellows well met.” They are now paying in compound interest for troubles they collected 20 years ago. Some of you are trying to escape, and you will — yet very narrowly, “as with the skin of your teeth.” God and your own soul only know what the struggle A, | Omnipotent grace has pulled out many a soul that was deeper in the mire than you are. They line the beach of Heaven—the multitude whom God has rescued you from the thrall of suicidal habits. If you this day turn back on the wrong and start anew, God will help you. Oh, the weakness of human help! Men w.ll sympathize for awhile, and then turn you off. If you ask for their pardon, they will give it and say they will try you again; ; but falling’ away again under the . power of temptation, they cast you off forever. But God forgives saventy times seven; yea, seven bund id limes; yea. though this be the ten thousandth time, li- is more earnest, more sympa thetic, more helpful this last time than when you took the first mistep. If, with all. the influences favorable for a right life, men make so many mistakes, how much harder it is when, for instance, some appetite thrusts its iron grapple into the roots of the tongue, and pulls a man down with hands of destruction! If, under such circumstances, he break away, there will be no sport in the undertaking, no holiday enjoyment, but a struggle in which the wrestlers move from side to side, and bend, and twist, and watch for an opportunity to get in a heavier j stroke, until with one final effort, in which the muscles are distended and the veins stand out, and the blood starts, the swarthy habit falls under the knee of the victor —escaped at last as “with the skin of his teeth.” There are in attempting to come to God, must run between a great many business perplexities. If a man go over to business at 10 o'clock in the morning and come away at 3 : o'clock in the afternoon, he has some time for religion; but how shall you find time for religious contemplation when you are driven from sunrise to sunset, and have been for five years going behind in business, and are frequently dunned by creditors whom you can not pay, and when from Monday morning until Saturday night you are dodging bills that you can not meet? You walk day i by day in uncertainties that have kept I your brain on fire for the past three years. Some with less business trou bles than you have gone crazy. The clerk has heard a noise in the back counting room, and gone in and found the chief man of the firm a raving maniac; or the wife has heard the bang’ of a pistol in the back parlor and gone in, stumbling over the dead body iof her husband -a suicide. There are men pursued, harassed, trodden do vn and scalped of business perplexities, and which way to turn next they do not know. Now, God will not be hard on you. lie knows what obstacles are in the way of you being a Christian, and your first effort in the right direction crown with suc ; cess. Do not let Satan, with cotton bales, and kegs, and hogsheads, and counters, and slocks of unsalable goods, block up your way to Heaven. Gather up all your energies. Tighten the girdle about your loins. Take an 1 agonizing look into the face of God, and then say, "Here goes one, grand effort for life eternal. - ' and then bound away for Heaven, escaping “as with ■ the skin of your teeth.” Try this God, ye who have had the bloodhounds after you and who have thought that God had forgotten you. Try Him, and see if He will not help. Try Him, and see if He will not pardon. Try Him, and see if He will not save. | The flowers of spring have no bloom I so sweet as the flowering of < hrist's affections. The sun has no warmth , compared with the glow of His heart. 1 he waters have no refreshment like ■ the fountain that will slake the thirst of thy soul. At the moment the reindeer stands with his lip and nostril thrust in the cool moun tain torrent, the hunter may be coming through the thicket. Without crack ing a stick under his foot, he comes close to the slag, aims his gun, draws the trigger, and tin- poor thing rears in its death agony and falls backward, its antlexs crashing on the rocks; but the panting . hart that drinks from the of God’s promise shall never be fatally wounded, and shall never die. Oh, find your peace in God. Make one strong pull for Heaven. No half way work will du it. There some times comes a time on shipboard when everything must be sacrified to save the pa-yengers. The cargo is nothing; the-’rising is nothing. The captain puts the trumpet to his lip and shouts: “('iit away the mast.” Some of you have been tossed and driven, and I you have, in your efforts to keep the world, well-nigh lost your soul. Until you have decided this matter let everything else go. Overboard with al) those other anxieties and burdens. You will have to drop the sails of your pride and cut, away the mast. With one earnest cry for help, put vour cause into the. hand of Him who helped Paul out of the breakers of Melita, and I who, above the shrill blast of the I wrathiest tempest that ever blackened the sky or shook the ocean, can hear I the faintest imploration of mercy. 1 shall close this sermon feeling’ that I some of you, who nave considered your case as hopeless, will take heart again, i and that with a blood-red earnestness, i such as you have never experienced be | fore. y< u wil) start for the good land 'of the Gospel —at last to look back, ■ saying: “What a great risk I ran! al most lost, but saved! J ust got th rough, i and no more! Escaped by the akin of i my teeth.” COHI-tDtRATE Pt-NSIONERS. List of Applicant* Added to the Koll By the State Board. The work of the state pension board in passing upon applications shows the following additions to the pension roll. The greater number of applicants were rejected, as only those actually depend ent, or whose disabilities are the, result of wounds received while iuhvvvice. aie entitled to relief. Pensioners will re ceive 96 per cent, of the sums allowed, an increase of 111 per eent over last year, due to an increased appropriation by the legislature. Warrants may be drawn after September 1: Benton county -J. A. ('armiss. SSO; N- J Deatherage. $25. B A Bazarth. $75. John Hart man, #75. - Bradley Reabella Johnson. $25; Bios. J | Ward. $25; 11. J. Neatherington, $25 j Boone D C. Carey, $25; B 11. Daniel, s<s, J. G. Williford. SSO. Calhoun 1). G. Hubbard. $25; Geo. H Thomp son. $25 Wilson Davis, $25; E. Stafford, $-. > . W. A. Priddy, $25. E. Stover. $25; Eliza Brum ley. 125. Carroll—Mahale Trantham, 125; J. C- Mc- Nemer, SSO. Chicot Jas. S. Harris. s2> Clark J N. Berm. 175. Cleveland-B. F. Culp. 125. Columbia A. .1 Griffith. $25; W 1 Owsley, 125. J. D Wyrick. $25. J. C. Watson. $25. Desha B. N Ingram. SSO. i Drew—R. M Jones, $25; Franklin Clark. 125 Faulkner L M. Miller. $25; John Mabry, $25 ■ Franklin T J. Holderby SSO. Fulton T. (’. Hilburn. $75; J. E. Cranswell- t SSO. J E M Biiluu’sb.v. si" Wm H Stone $25, Garland G W. Crabtree, #25, S. B Johnson, SSO. Greene Warren Otey KW- Hempstead J W ('raddick, 125. Hot Spring Sarana Davis. $25 Howard W. D Plunkett. $25. Wm Johnson 125. Independence James A Presley $75. Izard J. C. Dickinson $25. Johnson Thos. F EIBOU, |6O J C Hat “ $25 Ara F. Moore. $25. Jesse Greaves, $25. Lafayette T. M. Burrow $25. Lawrence—Joseph Russner. $75. Lee Minerva A Smith. $25. Little River John S. Finley $25; Mrs. Jean i $75. Logan —D- M. Roach, $25. Win M Weaver $25 Madison I‘. David Brown. SSU Horace E Page. $25. Miller W A. Baird. SSO Geo W Groves. SSO. Mississippi P S. Harrell. 160 Monroe Robt- J Green. $25. Sam A Hen derson, $25. Montgomery David Hilton $25. Nevada W T. Porter $25: E. S. Webb $75; Ma? Russell $25. Pike W. A Horton. $25; LL. Bishop $25. Pope J. M Sanders. $25. J H. Skelton #25 P< r. N Edwards 160 Mrs N a S< U I •" Pulaski W. F Blackwood SSO; T H Weeks. $.50. j w Hevox S6O A C Stillwell S6O; w B. Mann, $25; Thos F. Oun #25. Joe McCoy 125. J W. Grifflfth. $25. Randolph John A. Johnson, $75; Jas K. Lord. SSO: J. F. Davis SSO. Searcv (‘has Prewitt #75, Sebastian Mrs. 1,. S. McKinnis, $75, Eliza Price $25. St Francis A F. Rankin. $25. Stone E E. Beckham.s-10 t’nion E. C. Jones #25 Van Buren J Charles SSO Washington A. J. Smith. SSO. White Josephine Brown, f-•*> Richard Tav lor. L.'s: John Aclih,s2’s Jarrat Mooit f‘2s N B Robbins, #25 : Ellen Edwards. $25. Wot.druff E A Wilson. #2 ’. Jack Hogan. S4O. Yell Aggie J Brinson. $25. TRAGIC DEATH OF A RAPIST. Shot Down in Ihe Door of His Burning ( abiii, the Body Is < remated. Baxter, Akk., Aug. 21 —Last Sun day morning about three miles frmn this place Ed Williams, a negro rapist, was shot down in the door of his burn ing cabin by a posse of officers, and his body was consumed in the flames. Williams about a month ago com mitted an assault on a colored woman, and then sent word lo the officers that he would not be taken alive. About 9 o'clock Saturday night a posse was organized under Deputy Sheriff Will Hammock. At 1 o'clock his house was surrounded and thecommand given him to come out and surrender, but his wife answered that he was not at home and refused to open the door. The officers, however, were certain that Williams in the house, and after much per- JSiiasion and repeated warnings, the house was set on fire. When the roof began to tumble in the woman onened the door, when W illiams was seen in the act of raising his gun to his shoul der, at the same time advancing toward the door. 'The order was given to lire, and W illiains fell, pierced by a. hall from a Winchester. All efforts to rescue the body from the burning building were of no avail, as the entire roof fell in just as he v.a-> shot down. W illiams hail served two terms in the peniten tiary, one in Mississippi for horse steal ing and one in this state for rape. LYNCHING NEAR RISON. Colored Slayer of a White Man Swung off a Cotton Belt Railroad Itridge. I’l.xE Bluff. Aug. 2.’>. News has just reached here of the capture and lynch ing’ of one of the slayers of T. T. John son, a prominent white citizen, whose throat was cut from ear to ear at a ne gro picnic near Kendall last Saturday. When the news of the murder became known posses wort* organized and a search instituted for the guilty parties, i Late Monday afternoon deputy sheriffs I captured two of the negroes, but one shortly afterward made his escape. The officers then started toward Rison with their remaining prisoner, intend ing to lodge him in jail. When near I Anderson the negro, whose name was Wiley Douglass, was taken from them by a mob and swung off a bridge on the Cotton Belt road, where his body was found dangling in the air the next morning. Johnson had gone to the picnic and was endeavoring- to induce some of the darkies to ret urn to work ata near-by sawmill, when a riot en sued in which several negroes attacked him, with the above fatal result, A man by the name of Henley was pain ■ fully cut during the row, but will re | cover. EnronrnirinK Statistics. The Baltimore and Ohio officials are very much pleased with certain statistics that have recently been prepared of the p ei . formance of freight trains on the Second division, which handles all the east and west bound traffic between Baltimore and C'umheirtln<l. Before the new freight en ginys were purchased, and the improvements Hfade in the tra k in the wm of straighten m-’ curves and redui ing grades, the average number of cars to the tram was2B 12. Now, with more powerful and modern motive powei and a better track, the average is 40 < ars pci train, m increase of 41 per cent. The average east hound movement, per day lor the liisl tell da vs of August was 1,123 loaded cars. On the T hird division, Cum berland to Giaiton, where there are grades of 125 led to the mile, the engines used to haul 19 I‘2 loads to the tram. Now the average is 25 2 3 loads per train, an increase of 31 per cent. It would certainly appear that the money spent m improvements on I the B. and O is l-eing ainplv justified, and 1 that the cost of operation is being very ma terially reduced. The Country's Needs. “What this coun try needs," said the earnest citizen, “is more warships." ‘‘Yes,’ replied Senator Sorg hum, reflectively, “and more consulships.”—- Washington Star. Cutting around the eyes should be avoided, unless you are willing to make yourself a subject for experimenting m surgery This i.» nnnece-s.il y ; Sut hei land s Eag.e Eye Salve ! will cure sore eyes and gianu'ated hda after nil others have failed. It strengthens weak eyes. It is harmless. 2.5 cat all dealers. When a man tells us how energetic he is, we are always anxious to s< e him when hit wife wants an armful of wood Washington Democrat Hall'a ( alnrrh Cure Is taken internally, i’rice 75c. Some people are better when they ire sick I than at ant other time ( hieago Record. ALAHAMA LADIES DON’T* LIB tOak Lowery,Ala. .writer Have used Dr. M. A. S1 mino n s Ij 1v e r Medicine in my fam ily for 10 years, with good results. I think it is stronger than “Zeilin’s” or “ Black Draught.” Cramps Are caused by an irritation of the nerves. They aro local spasms, frequently the r suit of uterine disease. There arc pinching, gnawing and contractu pains in tlic r gion of the stomach extending to the bar k nn-1 che: L They are often the symptom and eject of inaigc! tion. Dr. M. A. sintmoM I.iver .'ic.lidno shotHd be u ■ 1 to stimu late the digestive organs and Dr. Simmons Squaw Vine Wine to give immediate relict and permanent cure. After tho old proprietors of the article now called “Black Draught’ 1 wre by tho I nited States Court enjoined front using the words constituting our trade name— doos not equity require that thej ■•• and on their own trade name and tn wits ’(if an;.) of their article, and not seek l • :.iq .’ phato the trade for our article called lor and known as Dr. Simmons Liver Mcdicme, by publi.-’img the picture of another Dr. Sim mons on their wrapper and f.dsely ndvertie ing that t.'-eirarticle “Black DraiAht’’ was eatablishcd in UMO, that being t.. yea ria whi< h ouf article nas establish. I. while no one ever heard of “Black Draught” till after 187 C. Why do they advcilite that Lusehood and associate the rrti Te with ours (having the picture of Dr. 2.1. A. mm inons on it) by their publication of the picture <>f another I >r. Simmons, if not done t<> unfairly appropriate our trade? Ij not LuC motive apparent? &in Antonio, 1 ■ x., says; My wife has m-- i l»r, M. / A. Siinnions I.i v«-r f _ gRI h-irie many years for Sick Headache and never r 2 fidi ß to buy a package \ z*y when she expects to gwHMM jr travel It saves one from hiking Injurious drugs. r F'years It has Is.-en • Ak noc ’ SHlir y medicine in my 'SF boils... Cnution. Don’t be fooled f n fn inking Cheap worthless stuff. If the merchant tells you “it is just the same” as M. V s'. G M., you may know that he is trying to hc!l you ctn-np stuff to make a big profit by palming off on you a wholly different article. GROVES TWril gjMBWy /S' <!':! - TASTELESS EHILL TDNIC IS JUST AS GOOD FOR ADULTS. WARRANTED. PRICE 50 ct«. „ GALATIA, N0V.16. 18S3. Paris Medicine Co., St. fzmis, Mo. Gentlemen. Wo sold |. H t year, ffhO bottlea of GIIOVE’H TASTELESS CHILL TONIC end hs#« bought, three gross alrandy this year. In sll <>ur ex perience of H yonrs, In the drug business, her* never «..ld an article that gnve such universal Bali*- fivcUon as your Tonic. Yours truly, Ahn r.v. CARR A CO. 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