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8 SEMI-WILMINGTON MESSENGER; TUESDAY, NOVEllBER lb, 18S3. THE POWER TO FIGHT 1K. TAITIAGE TELLS HOW AVHESTLK WITH EVIL TO j . . . . ri i Ate 7Int be Trained lor the Mrussck. j Silence and Ie IpIIne One Fall 1 t : tlie Ind-Tlie Strengili Tlmt ('omen! From od 1 Copyright, 1W, by American Press Association. In this discourse ur. isumaBe ' j one of the boldest figures of the Bible j ,urse Dr. TaJmage &elect3 . ,,cl.nt most practical and encourag j J J 1 V- ' v- - - - V ing truths; text i-phesians i, i-, vv wrestle not against the flesh and blood but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the dark ness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places." Scjueamishne.ss and fastidiousness were never charged aginst Paul's rhet oric. In the war against evil he took the first weapon he could lay his hand on. For illustration, he employed the theater, the arena, the foot race, and there was nothing in the Isthmian game, with its wreath of pine leaves, or Pythian game, with its wreath of laurel palm, or Nemean game, with its wreath of parsley, or any Roman cir cus, but he felt he had a right to put it in sermon or epistle, and are you not surprised that in my text he calls upon a wrestling bout for suggestiveness? Plutarch says that wrestling Is the most artistic and cunning of athletic arnes. We must make a wide differ ence between pugilism, the lowest of speetaeles, and wrestling, which is an effort in sport to put down another on floor or ground, and we, all of us, in dulged in it in our boyhood days if we were healthful and plucky. The an cient wrestlers were first bathed in oil and then sprinkled with sand. The third throw decided the victory, and many a man who went down in the first throw or second throw in the third throw was on top and his opponent und-r. The Romans did not like this game very much, for it was not savage enough, no blows or kicks being allow ed in the game. They preferred the foot of hungry panther on the breast of falh-n martyr. In wrestling the opponents would bow in apparent suavity, advance face to face, put down both feet solidly, take each other by the arms and push each other backward and forward un til the work began in real earnest, and there were contortions and strangula tions and violent strokes of the foot of one contestant against the foot of the other, tripping him up, or, .with strug gle that threatened apoplexy or death, the defeated fell, and the shouts of the spectators greeted the victor. I guess Paul had seen some such contest, and it reminded him of the struggle of the fjoul with the temptation, and the struggle of heavenly forces against Apollyonic powers, and he dictates my text to an amanuensis, for all his let ters, save the one to Philemon, seem to have been distated, and, as the amanuensis goes on with his work I hear the groan and laugh and shout of earthly and celestial belligerents, "We wrestle not against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, aginst spirt ual wickedness in high places." THE AMENITIES OF LIFE. L ..notice that as these wrestlers ad vanced to throw each other they bowed one to the other. It was a civility, not only in (Irecian and Roman games, but in later day, in all the wrestling bouts at Clerkenwell. England, and in the famous wrestling match during the reign of Henry III in St. Giles' Field between men of Westminster and peo ple of London. However rough a twist and hard a pull each wrestler contem plated giving his opponent, they ap proached each other with politeness and suavity. The genuflexions, the affability, the courtesy in no wish hin dered the decisiveness of the contest. "Well, Paul. I see what you mean. In this awful struggle between right and wrong we must not forget to be gentle men and ladies. Affability never hind ers, but always helps. You are power less as soon as you get mad. Do not call rumsellers murderers. Do not call infidels fools. Do not call higher crit ics reprobates. Do not call all card players and theater goers children of the devil. Do not say that the dance breaks through into hell. Do not deal in vituperation and billingsgate and contempt and adjectives dynamatic. The other side can beat us at that. Their dictionaries have more objurga tion and brimstone. We are in the strength of God to throw Hat of its back every abomina tion that curses the earth, but let us approach our mighty antagonist with suavity. Hercules, son of Jupiter and Alcmena. will by a precusor of smiles be helped rather than damaged for the performance of his "12 labors." Let us be wisely strategic in religious cir cles as attorneys in courtrooms, who are complimentary to each other in the Lpening remarks, before they come into legal struggle such as that which left Rufus Choate or David Paul Brown triumphant or defeated. People who get into a rage in reformatory work accomplish nothing but the depletion of their own nervous system. There is such a thing as having a gun so hot at the touchhole that it explodes, killing the one that sets it off. There are some reformatory meetings to which I always decline to go and take part, be cause they are apt to become demon strations of bad temper. I never like to hear a man swear, even though he swear on the right side. The very Paul who in my text employed in illustra tion the wrestling match, behaved on a memorable occasion as we ought to be have. The translators of the Bible made an unintentional mistake when they represented Paul as insulting the people of Athens by speaking of "the unknown god whom ye ignorantly worship." Instead of charging them with ignorance, the original indicates he comp'imented them by suggesting that they were very religious, but as they confessed that there were some things they did not understand about God, he promised to say some things concerning him. beginning where they had left off. The same Paul who said in one place, "Be courteous." and who had noticed the bow preceding the wrestling match, here exercises suav ities before he proceeds practically to throw down the rocky side of the Acro polis the whole Parthenon of idolatries, Minerva and Jupiter smashed up with the rest of them. In this holy war polished rifles will do more execution than blunderbusses. Let our wrestlers bow as thev go into the struggle which will leave all perdition under and all heaven on top. STRENGTH FROM DISCIPLINE. Remember also that these wrestlers -0nt thrniirh severe and continuous course of preparation for their work. 3 TheVwere put upon such diet as would best develop their muscle. As Paul says, "Every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things." The wrestlers were put under complete discipline bathing, gymnastics, strug gle? in sport with each other to develop strength and give quickness to dodge of head and trip of foot; stooping to ift her gTQUnd. gudden. iy rushing forward; suddenly pulling backward; putting the left foot behind the other's right foot and getting his r,rT.nTfnt off his hfllnnrp- harvl frainln? for days and weeks and months so that when they met it was giant clutching . triant. Ah. my friends, if we do not watn ourselves to be thrown in this u-r-?tle with the sin and error of the world, we had better get ready by Christian principle, by holy self de nial, by constant practice, by submit ting to divine supervisal and direction. Do not begrudge the time and the money for that young man who is in preparation for the ministry, spending two years in grammar school and four years in college and three years in theological seminary. I know that nine years are a big slice to take off of a man's active life, but if you realized the height and strength of the arch angels of evil in our time with which that young man is going to wrestle, you would not think nine years of pre paration were too much. An uneduca ted ministry was excusable in other days, but not in this time, loaded with schools and colleges. A man who wrote me the other day a letter asking ad vice, as he felt called to preach the gospel, began the word "God" with a small "g." That kind of a man is not called to preach the gospel. Illiterate men. preaching the gospel, quote for their own encouragement the Scriptur al passage, "Open thy mouth wide and I fill it." Yes! He will fill it with wind. Preparation for this wrestling is absolutely necessary. Many years ago Dr. Newman and Dr. Sunderland, on the platform of Brigham Young's tabernacle at Salt Lake City gained the victory because they had so long been skillful wrestlers for God. Other wise Bringham Young, who was him self a giant in some things, would have thrown them out of the window. Get ready in Bible classes. Get ready In Christian Endeavor meetings. Get ready by giving testimony in obscure places, before giving testimony in con spicuous places. THE SILENT WORKER. Your going around with a Bagster's Bible with flaps at the edges under your arm does not qualify you for the work of an evangelist. In this day of profuse gab remember that it is not merely capacity to talk, but the fact that you have something to say that is going to fit you for the struggle into which you are to go with a smile on your face and illumination on your brow, but out of which you will not come until all your physical and men tal and' moral and religious energies have been taxed to the utmost and you have not a nerve left, or a thought un expended, or a prayer unsaid, or a sym pathy unwept. In this struggle be tween right and wrong accept no chal lenge on the platform or in newspaper unless you are prepared. Do not mis apply the story of Goliath the great, and David the little. David had been practicing with a sling on dogs and wolves and bandits, and 1,000 times had he swirled a stone around his head be fore he aimed at the forehead of the giant and tumbled him backward, otherwise the big foot of Goliath would almost have covered up the crushed form of the son of Jesse. Notice also that the success of a wrestler depended on his having his feet well planted before he grappled his opponent. Much depends upon the way the wrestler stands. Standing on an uncertain piece of ground or bear ing all his weight on right foot or all his weight on left foot, he is not ready. A slight cuff of his antagonist will cap size him. A stroke of the heel of the other wrestler will trib him. And in this struggle for God md righteous ness, as well as for our own souls, we want our feet firmly planted in the gospel both feet on the Rock of Ages. It will not do to believe the Bible in spots, or think some of it true and some of it untrue. You just make up your mind that the story of the garden of Eden is an allegory, and the epistle of James an interpolation, and that the miracles of Christ can be accounted for on natural grounds, without any belief in the supernatural, and the first time you are interlocked in a wrestle with sin and satan you will go under and your feet will be higher than your head. It will not do to have one foot on a rock and the other on the sand. The old book would long ago have gone to pieces if it had been vulnerable. But if the millions of Bibles that have been printed within the last twenty five years not one chapter has been omitted, and the omission of one chap ter would have been the cause of the rejection of the whole edition. Alas for those who, while trying to prove that Jonah was never swallowed of a whale, themselves get swallowed of the whale of unbelief, which digests, but never ejects its victims. The in spiration of the Bible is not more cer tain than the preservation of the Bible in its present condition. After so many centuries of assault on the book would it not be a matter of economy, to say the least economy of brain and economy of stationery and economy of printer's ink if the batteries now as sailing the book would change their aim and be trained against some other books, and the world shown that Wal ter Scott did not write "The Lady of the Lake," nor Homer "The Iliad," nor Virgil "The Georgics," nor Thomas Moore "Lalla Rookh," or that Wash ington's farewell address was written by Thomas Paine, and that the war of the American Revolution never occur red. That attempt would be quij;e as successful as this long timed ,tack anti-Biblical, and then it would, je new. Oh. keep out of this wrestling bout with the ignorance and the wretched ness of the world unless you feel that both feet are planted in the eternal veracities of the book of Almighty God! THE FALLEN MAY RISE. Notice also that in this science of wrestling, to which Paul refers in-my text, it was the third throw that decid ed the contest. A wrestler might be thrown once or thrown twice, but the third time he might recover himself, and by an unexpected twist of arm or curve of foot gain the day. Well, that is broad, smiling, unmistakable gospel. Some whom I address through ear or eye, by voice or printed page, have been thrown in their wrestle with evil habit. Aye. you have been thrown twice, but that does not mean, oh, worsted soul, that you are thrown forever! I have no authority for saying how many times a man may sin and be forgiven or how many times he may fall and yet rise again, but I have authority for saying that he may fall 490 times and 490 times get up. The Bible declares that God will forgive 70 times 7. and if you will employ the rule of multiplica tion you will find that 70 times 7 is 490. Blessed be God for such a gospel of high hope and thrilling encouragement and magnificent rescue! A gospel of lost sheep brought home on Shepherd's shoulder, and the prodigals who got In to the low work of putting husks into swineg troughs brought home to Jewel ry and banqueting and hilarity that made the rafters ring! Three sketches of the same man: A happy home, of which he and a lassie taken from a neighbor's house are the united head. Years of happiness roll on after years of happiness. Stars pointing down to nativities. An i whether announced in greeting or not every morning was a Oood morning and every night a "Good night. ' Christmas '.rees and May queens, anj birthday festivities and Thanksgiving gatherings around loaded tables. But that husband and father forms an un fortunate acquaintance who leads him in circles too convival. too late hcured. too scandalous. After awhile, hi? mon ey gone and not able to bar his pa-t of the expense, he is gradually shoved out and ignored and pushed away. Now, what a dilapidated home is his! A dissipated life always shows itself :n faded window curtains, and impover ished wardrobe, and dejected surround ings, and in broken palings of the gar den fence, and the unhinged gate, aid the dislocated door bell, and the disap pearance of wife and children fro-n scenes among which they shone the brightest and laughed the gladdest. If any man was ever down, that husbar.d father is down. The fact is, he got into a wrestle with evil that pushed and pulled and contorted and exhausted him worse than any Olympian game ever treated a Grecian, and he was thrown. Thrown out of prosperity int gloom. Thrown out of good associa tion into bad. Thrown out of health into invalidism. Thrown out of happi ness into misery; but one day, whil- slinking through one of the back streets, not wishing to be recognized, a good thought crosses his mind, for he has heard of men flung fiat rising again. Arriving at his house, he calls his wife in and shuts the door and says: "Mary, I am going to do differ ently. This is not what I promised you when we were married. You have been very patient with me and have borne everything, although I would have had no right to complain if you had left me and gone home to your father's house. It seems to me that once or twice, when I was not myself, I struck you, and several times, I know, I called you hard names. Now I want you to forgive me. I am going to do better. , and I want you to help me." "Help you?" she says. "Bless your soul! Of course I will help you! I knew you didn't mean it when you treated me roughly. All that is in the past. Never refer to it again. Today let us begin anew." Sympathizing friends come around and kind business people help the man to something to do, so that he can again earn a living. The children soon have clothing so that they can go to school. The old songs which the wife sang years ago come back to her memory, and she sings them over again at the cradle or while preparing the noonday meal. Domestic resurrection! He comes home earlier than he used to, and he is glad to spend the evening playing games with the children or helping them with arithmetic or grammar les sons which are a little too hard. Time passes on, and some outsider suggests to him that he is not getting as much out of life as he ought and proposes an occasional visit to scenes of worldli ness and dissipation. He consents to go once, and after much solicitation twice. Then his old habit comes back. He says he has been belated and says he could not get back until midnight. He had to see some western merchant that had arrived and talked of business with him before he got out of town. Kindness and geniality again quit the disposition of that husband and father. The wife' heart breaks in a new place. That man goes into a second wrestle with evil habit and is flung, and all hell cackles at the moral defeat. "I told you so," say many good people who have no faith in the reformation of a fallen man. "I told you so! You made a great fuss about his restored home, but I knew it would not last. You can't trust these fellows who have once gone wrong." So with this un fortunate, things get worse and worse, and his family have to give up the house, and the last valuable goes to the pawnbroker's shop. But that un fortunate man is sauntering along the street one Sunday night, and he goes up to a church door, and the congre gation are singing the second hymn, the one just before sermon, and it is William Cowper's glorious hymn: There is a fountain filled with blood Drawn from Emmanuel's veins, And sinners plunged beneath that flood Lose all their guilty stains. WAVERING AT THE DOOR. He goes into the vestibule of the church and stops there, not feeling well enough dressed to go among the wor shippers, and he hears the minister say, "You will find the words of my text in Luke, the nineteenth chanter and tenth verse, 'The Son of Man is come to seek and save that which was lost.' " The listener In the vestibule says: "If any man was ever lost, I am lost, and the Son of Man came to save that which is lost, and he has found me and He will tak me out of this lost condition. Oh, Christ, have mercy on me!" The poor man has courage now to enter the main audience room, and he sits down on the first seat by the door, and when at the close of the service the minister comes down the aisle the poor man tells his story, and he is encouraged and invited to come again, and the way is cleared for him for membership in a Christian church, and he feels the omnipotence of what Peter, the apostle, said when he spoke of those "kept by the power of God through faith unto complete salva tion." Yet he is to have one more wrestle before he is free from evil hab its, and he goes into it, not in his own strength, for that has failed him twice, but in the strength of the Lord God Almighty. The old habit seizes him. and he seizes it, and the wrestlers bend backward and forward and from side to side, in awful struggle, until the moment comes for his liberation and, with both arms infused with strength from God, he lifts that habit, swings it in air and hurls it into the perdition from which it came and from which it never again will rise. Vic tory, victory, victory, through our Lori Jesus Christ! Hear it. all ye wrest lers! It threw him twice, but the third time he threw it. and. by the grace of God. threw it so hard he is as safe now as if he had been ten years in heaven. Oh, I am so glad that Paul in my text suggests the wrestler and the power of the third throw! But notice that my text suggests that the wrestlers on the othr side in the great struggle for the world's re demption have all the forces of de monology to help them. "We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. " All military men will tell you that there is nothing more unwise than to underestimate an army. In estimating what we have to contend with, the most of the reformers do cot recognize the biggest opposers. They talk about i the agnosticism, and the atheism, and the materialism, and the nihilism, and the pantheism, and the BrahmanSsrn, ? and the Mohammedanism as well as the more agile and organized and en- ? dowed wickedness of our day. But ; these are only a part of the hostilities ' arrayed against God and the best in- terests of humanity. The Invisible ! hosts are far more numerous than the ; visible. It is not so much the bottle; it is the demon of the bottle. It is not ' so much the roulette table; it is the demon of the roulette table. It is not so much the act of stock gambling as it is the demon of stock gambling. It ' is the great host of spiritual antagon ists led on by Aziel or Lucifer or Berl- zebub or Asmodeus or Ahrimanes or ; Abaddon, just as you please to call ' the leader infernalistic. Can you doubt that the human agencies of evil are backed up by Plutonic agencies? If it were only a common war steed, with ' panting nostril and flaunting mane and clattering hoof, rushing upon us. per haps we might clutch him by the bit and hurl him back upon his haunches. but it is the black horse cavalry of per- ; dition who dash down and their riders j swing swords which, though invisible, i cleave individuals and homes and na- ; tions. I tell you. Paul was right when I he suggested that we wrestle, not with pygmies, but with giants that will down us. unless the I-rd Almighty is our coadjutor. Blessed by God that we '. have now. and further on will have in ! mightier degree, that divine help! THE OVERTHROW OF EVIL. j The time is coming I know it will quicken your pulses when I mention it when the last mighty evil of the world will be grappled by righteous- ! ness and thrown. Which of the great : evils will survive all the others I know not, whether war, or revenge, or fraud, or lust, or intemperance, or gambling, or Sabbath desecration. It will not be "the survival of the fittest," but the survival of the worst. It will be the evil the most thoroughly intrenched, most completely re-enforced, most pat ronized by wealth and fashion and pomp, most applauded by all the prin cipalities and powers and rulers of darkness. It will stand with grim vis age looking down upon the graves of ail the other slain abominations graves dug by the hot shovels of des pair and surmounted by such epitaph iology as this, "It biteth like a ser pent and stingeth like an adder," "The : wages of sin is death," "Her house in- ; clineth unto death and her paths un to the dead," "There is a way that seemeth right to a man, but the end thereof is death." Yes, I imagine we have arrived at the time when we may , say, Yonder stands the last and only great evil of all the world to be wres- j tied down. It stands not only looking upon the graves of all the entombed and epitaphed iniquities of the world, but ever and anon gazing upward in defiance of the heavens and shaking its fist at the Almighty, saying: "Nothing can put me down. I have seen all the other enemies of the hu man race wrestled down and destroy- ! ed, but there is no arm or foot, human or angelic or deific that can throw me. I have ruined whole generations, and I swear by all the thrones of diabolism that I will ruin this generation. Come on, all ye churches and all ye reform- ; atory institutions and all ye legisla- : tures and all ye thrones. I challenge you. I plant my feet on this red hot : rock of the world's woe. I stretch forth : my arms for the mightiest wrestle any ' world has ever seen. Come on. Come on." j Then righteousness wtll accept the challenge, and the two mighty wres tlers will grapple, while all the gal leries of earth and heaven look down from one side and all the fiery chasms of perdition look up from the other, side. The two wrestlers sway to and fro and turn this way and that, and now the monster, evil, seems the mightier of the two, and now right eousness seems about to triumph. The prize is worth a struggle, for it is not a chaplet of laurel or palm, but the rescue of a world, and a wreath put on the brow by him who promised, "Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown." Three worlds earth, heaven and hell hold their breath while waiting for the result of this struggle, when with one mighty swing of an arm muscled with omnipo tence righteousness hurls the last evil, first on its knees and then on its face, and then rolling off and down, with a crash wilder than that with which Samson hurled the temple of Dagon when he got hold of its two chief pil lars, but more like the throwing of satan out of heaven, as described by John Milton: Him the Almighty power flung 1 Headlong flaming from the etherel sky With hideous ruin and combustion, down . ! To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine chains and penal fire I Who durst defy the Omnipotent ter"Jnrzuna arms. rsine times the spaca that measures day and night . , To mortal man he, with his " horrid crew, J gulf, Confounded, though immortal. THE STRENGTH OF RIGHT. Aye, that suggests a cheering thought that if all the realms of de- uiuiugy die uii me omer siae, aa me realms of angelology are on our side, amcmer them Onhriol frr1 Tir-Vinol tho archangel, and the angel of the new j covenant, and they are now talking j over the present awful struggle and j final glorious triumph, talking amid the alabaster pillars and in the ivory palaces, and along the broad ways and rrand avenues of the great capital of the Universe, and nmiri the surav rf fountains with rainbows like the j "rainbow round the throne." and as I they take their morning ride in the j chariots with white horses bitted with ' Pills K t & Cure All Lver iiis. 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A few year? npo I was taken with in flammatory Rheumatism ,vhich,thouh mild at first, became gradually o in tense that 1 was for weeks unable to wlk T tripd spvpthI nrominent nhvsi- i ciana and took their treatment faith- fully, but was unable to get the slightest relief. In fact, my condition seemed to grow worse, the nains ?ireau over my ont!r Vwvl nnd frnm Vv,L,r March I suffered agony. I tried many patent medicines, but none relieved me. Upon the advice of a friend I decided to try S. S. S. Before allowing me to take it, however, my guardian, who was a chemist, analyzed the remedy, and pro nounced it free of potagh or mercury. JOHN GILPIN'S WIFB The Best Bed Made. tress Don't Pack.STry .One. THHEUE! SUM SECOND MARKET STREETS gold that were seen by John in vision apocalptic, and while waiting in tem ples for the one hundred and forty and four thousand to chant, accompa nied by harpers and trumpeters, and thunderings and hallelujahs like the voice of many waters. Yes, all heaven is on our side, and the "high places of wickedness" spoken of in my text are rot so high as the high places of heaven, where there are enough re serve forces if our earthly forces should be overpowered, or in coward ice fall back, to sweep down some morning at daybreak and take all this earth for God before the city clocks could strike 12 for noon. And the cab inet of heaven, the most august cabi net in the universe, made up of three God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost are now in ses sion in the King's palace, and they are with us, and they are going to see us through, and they invite us, as soon as we have done our share of the work, to go up and see them and cele brate the hnai victory, that is more sure to come than tomorrow's sun While 1 think or it, tne scotch e gelistic hymn comes upon me a the strong tide of Scotch rolls through my arteries! Its a bonnie, b livin' ; traiv'll But In valrwe 100K ror something here to which oor hearts may cling, For its beauty is as naething tae the palace o the King. We like the gilded summer, wi' its merry, merry tread. An we eigh when hoary winter lays its beauties wi' the dead, For, tho' bonnie are the snowflakes an the doon on winter's wing, j It's fine to ken it daurna touch the palace o' the King. Nae nicht shall be in heaven an nae desolation sea, An nae tyrant hoofs shall trample i the city o' the free; ! There's an everlastin daylicht an a never fadin spring, J W'here the Lamb is a' the glory 1' the palace o tne King. We see oor freen's await us ower yon- ner at his gate; Then lat us a' be ready, for ye ken it's gettin late; Let oor lamps be brichtly burnin, let us raise oor voice an sing, For sune we'll meet, to pairt nae mair, i the palace o' the King. That Trotibllnz Headache Would quickly leave you, if you used Dr. King's New Life Pills. 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The fire startl their clothii fall heav. son. much trouble and n always be d- p-nded upon and is pleasant to take. Fur sale by R. R. Bellamy. Raleigh News and oiis'-rv'-r: '. t Vance- Station, Vance County, Novem ber K. News reached here at 1" '.)') o'clock tonight that the regular re publican train, running on the r p-pop-fusion railroad, crowded with ne groes and whites, while crossing the White Supremacy railroad at White man's Station, was run Into and com pletely demolished by the I.-innratl Lightning Express No. Ih's. Fusion en gine No. was derailed and Engineer Hoi ton and Fireman Aycr both were instantly killed. Conductor Russell, Brakeman Thompson, Porcr Ramsey, Baggage Agent Dockery, Director But ler and President Pritrhard of tlie R. P. F. railroad, all killei or mortally wounded. Somebody hung crape on Jim Forsyth's door Tuesday night a"1 a reminder of the defeat hi party had received. As a result he cam'- up town yesterday morning and it did not take long to get into a light. No damage was done. John R. Smith: "Whom the Ird loveth he also haKfeneth." j Further than this John It. decl.ned to i discuss the result. Kinston Free Pre R.-v. T. II. Sut ton preached his lat f-nwn as pas tor of the M. K. church at Iarange on Sunday niht. Th" board of stew ards, by a unanimous vote, expressed a desire for his return next year. Mr. Will Brinson. engineer on th At lantic and North Carolina freight going to Goldsboro, was knocked down by one of th colored hands on the train at the Kinston d-pot yesterday. Mr. Brinson was near the engine, at tending to it, when the negro sneak-d up and struck him. After th- negro struck Mr. Brinson he ran away for parts unknown. Charlotte Observer: Dr. J. M. Hen derson died yesterday about 2 o'clock at his residence on South Church street, after several month's Illness. Th- deceased was born two miles north of Charlotte. He was a uon of David Henderson, and was related to the large family by that name in this county. . . bottle, that I continued th r If r r r