Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 18 November 1899 — Page 7
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HORN OF PLENTY
Jeweler and Optician. Opp. Court House.
A FEW LEFT
I have a few Buggies and Surnes left after my "Clearance Sale" last Saturday. I do not want to carry any buggies ov-r, and will moke very low prices to close them out within the next thirty days. Don't miss this opportunity as you will pay more in the spring.
Remember we have a fine line' of Plush aud Fur Robes aud Horse Blankets.
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The most complete Harness and Buggy Store in Montgomery county. Remember that
Fisher's Harness are Good Harness. Eisher's Buggies are Good Buggies:
JOE E. FISHER
SEASONABLE NOW
That never ceases to pour in the latest ami most unique designs in fine Jewelrv, Silverware, Watches, and settings for precious |8f stones you would think our supply was furnished from. We keep up with the times "in everything in the Jew- jSj elry line, and nothing is selected for our superb stock but thebest and new- aa est styles and best quality. SB?
KLINE.
Felt Boots
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Rubber Goods.
And we are Leaders in these lines.
YanCamp & Co.
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Regardless of Cost is Still Going on at the
ST A I! uSHOK* HOUSE
A FAIR FACE CANNOT ATONE FOR AN UNTIDY HOUSE." TRY
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Some Conclusions Arrived at After Attending the Ostrum Union Heetings.
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EDITOR OF NEW REVIEW:— I
I attended the union meeting now being conducted by Dr. Ostrmn last Wednesday and Thursday eveuings I and gave the closest attention to the discourses delivered by the Dr. on the "New Birth" and the-^ew Heart," respectively.
I was greatly impressed with the fluency of the speaker, his inexhaustible store of illustrative matter, aud the marvelous skill of both language and gesture bv which he easily held the attention of the audience. I was, however, much disappointed iu not being able to gather from his highly ornate aud copiously illustratsermons what the scriptures require of the unconverted in order to accomplish the "new birth" or obtain a •'new heart." 1. therefore, concluded to examine the scriptures with such helps as I could command, and it seems to me that I have found evidence to justify the following conclusions, viz:
J* Provision has been made for the salvation of all. Isa. 55:1 2 Peter 3:9 Rev. 22:17 John 7:37. 2. Salvation is not absolute, but conditional Isa. 55:7 Mark 16:16 Rom 2: 7, 8 and that, 3. The scriptures, if permitted to be their own interpreter, constitute a perfect, simple, aud all-sufficient guide as to what are the conditions. Psa. 19 7: 2 Tim. 3: 15 to 17: 2 Pet. 1:3 without any contribution from human wisdom, either ecclesiastical or traditional: Mat. 15:3, 9, 13 1 Cor. 1:25 to 29: 1 Cor. 1 to S. & 12, 13 Isa. 35:8.
Under the present, or Christian dispensation, no discrimination is made but pardon for past offenses is offered to all on the same conditions. Acts 10:35 Rom. 2:11.
I have been unable to find any his" tory or account of a conversion under the commission given by Christ to his apostles recorded anywhere except in Acts of Apostles.
I have found no ease^where the Spirit acted directly on the unbeliever independently of tl word. Rom. 10,16 Rom. 10:14, 1
In all cases of gospel conversions recorded, I find that men previously inspired of God, communicated to the unconverted person the terms ofjpardon for past sins, aud from the various cases recorded, the said terms appear to me to be as follows, to-wit: 1. Faith, or change of belief. Acts, 16:31 Mark, 16:16 Rom., 10:9. The things to be believed are the death, burial and resurrection of Christ as the evidence of His divine character. 1 Cor., 15:1-4. 2. Repentance, or a change of purpose in order to correspond with the change of belief or conviction. Acts, 2:38: 17:30 26:20. 3. Confession, or corrageous assertion of the foregoing conviction and purpose. Rom., 10:9, 10 Acts, 8:37: 9:20 Mat., 10:32. ,4. Baptism, or change of state. Mark, 16:16 Acts, 2:38 22:16 Rom., (5:3, -1, 5 Gal., 3:27.
Now I desire to ask a few questions of the ministers and religious teachers of our city. 1. Is this the way people became christians in the days of the apostles? If not state wherein the process is lacking, with bible authority. 2. Will the same process accom plish a sound conversion at the pres enttime? If not. why? and sustain the reason with scripture.
I fear that many of the preachers shoot over the heads of their hearers iu their discourses. It will notdo to presume that the people are well iu formed in scripture matters.
In examining the sermons preached by the apostles, I find that they eon sisted chiefly in, J. Such statements aud arguments as convinced the people of the truth of the gospel, thereby obtaing their consent to be christains aud 2 instructing them how to become christians.
Should not the preaching of the present time be directed toward the same end
I earnestly entreat the preachers of this city to give an honest enquirer after truth the information above sought. "Sy.
I assure you, Mr. Editor, that the foregoing has not been written with 1a spirit of captious criticism, nor even with mingled motives.
I have absolutely no temporal in
Crawfordsville, Indiana, Saturday, November 18,1899.
terest to be served by any turn religious affairs may take. IJ^am a subscriber to no creed drawn]|by human agencies from the Bible or any other source. I have no denominational pride or ambition to be gratified nor am I interested injfsustaining either the influence or enlarging the social, financial or numerical prestige of any religious party. I have neither sought or held any position of honor, influence, authority, or profit in any denomination, society or order. I am a firm believer in the history, doctrine and prophesy of the Bible, and recently have taken considerable interest in studying it in as thorough a manner as circumstances and my limited education seem to suggest.
I have been, however, much disappointed in receiving so little help from the theologians of the day, aud am grieved that the interpretation and exegesis of the saered writings have fallen almost entirely into the hands of men whose temporal interests depend so largely upon their rejecting all religious truth that has not been approved by their denominational censors, aud to whom the temptation is so strong to entertain the public with semi-religious declamation.
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TRUTH SEEKER.
Crawfordsville, Nov. 10, '99.
Law Enforcement. and city officials
Gov. Mount and IT If ANT town Iy throughout Indiana could draw
some inspiration from the advice of Gov. Mount to the Terre Haute Police Board. The Governor has. written a letter to the Police Board of that city in which he says:
An honest enforcement of the law iu Indiana shall not be made contingent on the will or wish of any sect, creed, organization, nationality or party. No organization, society or party worthy of confidence and support will be injured by an honest enforcement of the laws of the State. Any organization or party that expects to find favor among intelligent, law-ob-serving people, or the favor of the masses, through truckling or pandering to lawlessness, misinterprets the intelligence and moral stamina of the American people'" This is certainly the very soundest of sound doctrine. The laws of Indiana were made to be enforced, aud every man i:s bound to obey them. The Governor is most certainly right when he says no organization, sect, or party, will be injured by a strict enforcement of the law, which is worthy of police confidence and support. It is always the unworthy which demands special privileges, and we can get along without such.*
Farmers' Institute.
ALL
the farmers of the county are interested iu the work of the Farmers' Institute to be held iu this city Wednesday and Thursday, December 20 and 21. The main workers in that meeting will be H. L. McMahan, of Franklin county, and H. H. Keim,of Ladoga. The following will be the subjects discussed by the latter gentleman: 'The Ordinary Farmer With a Flock of Sheep." "The Breeds of Sheep and their Adaptations." "Stock Raising vs. Grain Farming." "Improvement of Farm Stock." "Our Friends, the Dumb Animals," (evening.) "The farmer and his Library." "Care of Farm Tools and Implements," "Beauty for Ashes," (evening."
Mr. McMahan will speak on the following topics: "Clover or Timothy Which ami Why?" "How we secure a stand of Clover and carry it through th.- Summer." "The Value of Farm Manures aud how we get the most out of them." "Profit in the right use of Commercial Fertelizers." Big Crops of Corn on Clay Soil and how we get them." "Why and how I am draining a clay farm and the results." "Corn Stover Its cost and value, and how we seeuJQ that value." "What we do to prevent Hog Cholera and Swine Plague." "A Garden the busiest farmer can afford." "Winning true success on the farm." "Free Mail Delivery for Farmers." "The Farmer of the Twentieth Century." "The Interdependence of Farm and Town." "A talk with young farmers and their wives." "How we interest our children in horticulture." "How much and where shall we educate our boys and girls."
The Home Telephone Co. has lately added thirty-five new names to its list of subscribers.
CIRCUIT COURT.
Alvilda J. McDauiel vs. C. Columbus McDauiel. Divorce. Defendant makes default.
J. F. Hoover vs. Ed. Pattou and J. W. Cronk. Damages. Jury finds for defendants. Plaintiff asks for a new trial.
George Liking vs. estate of William hite. Complaint. Jury awards plaintiff §142.50 damages.
Mary E. Hartman vs. H. T. Simmons et al. Complaint. Court finds for the plaintiff in the sum of $36 and costs.
State ex rel C. & S. E. R. R. Co., vs. W. H. Long, J. P. Mandamus. Court orders defendant to approve appeal bond filed before him and to make aud certify a complete transcript iu the cause at issue by October 9 or be held for contempt.
Mayme J. Snyder vs. Robert C. Snyder. Divorce. Dismissed. Nina Brown vs. Charles H. Brown. Divorce. Defendant makes default.
James Stout vs. Nettie Stout. Divvorce. Defendant makes default. H. S. Braden et al vs. J. N. Morgan and G. W. Smith. On note. Jury fiuds for defendant Smith and against defendant Morgan, giving plaintiff a verdict agaiust him in the sum of $138.88.
State ex rel. M. W.Bruner guardian of Ella P. Brewer vs. estate of W. T. Brush and vs. W. E. Brewer, M. C. Kline and W. H. Ashley. Claim. Case is settled by compromise, the plaintiff being allowed damages in the sum of $1,000 and costs. The Brush estate is to stand primarily for the judgment and should it not prove adequate il other defendants are to pay the balance.
H. S. Braden et al vs. Howard Deyey. On note. Judgment for plaintiff in the sum of $162.80. „,
In the matter of Alfred Taylor et al, petition for a ditch. Report of drainage commissioners approved and the ditch is established.
John Wells vs. J. H. Armantrout and W. R. Childers. Appeal. Dismissed.
W. G. Godfrey Suicides.
If Linden, Saturday night, there II occurred a peculiar suicide. The victim was a fine-looking, well dressed young man of about 35 years of age, by'the name of W. G. Godfrey. He was on his way from Kansas City, Mo., to Jersey City to accept a position procured for him by friend and was traveling on a stock pass on the Clover Leaf. The freight train was held about an hour at Linden, and Godfrey got out of the caboose and took a walk down the track. He afterward came back and sat iu the caboose awhile. He got down again just before the train started, aud as it pulled out some of the train crew saw- him leaning over the track. They stopped the train and ran back to him thinking he was sick. They discovered that he had deliberately cut his throat with a razor. He lived for two hours but never regained conciousness. A message from Kansas City gave the information that he had resigned a good position there to accept one at Jersey City, and was on his way there when he killed himself. The further information was funrished that he was an Englishman by birth, and that he had no relations in America. The body was buried Monday in the Linden cemeteiy.
Teachers' Association.
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1st and 2nd the fif
teenth annual Teachers'Association of Montgomery County will be held in the college chapel in this city. An excellent programme has been arranged for the occasion. Addresses will be made by Dr. Ivaue, Dr. J. E. Clelland, Prof. Kingery, Prof. Bodine, Miss Anna Willson and Rev. G. L. Mcintosh. The musical programme is an attractive one, consisting of solo numbers by Miss Dice, Prof. Bodine, A. A. McCain, and Misses Thomas and Bruner. An interesting meeting of the teachers is expected.
Death of Cora Shular.
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Sunday morning occurred the death of Cora Shular, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Shular, aged 19 years. She had been for 15 years a member of the Baptist church in this city. A funeral service was held Monday afternoon at the home, conducted by Rev. A. W. Runyan. The body was taken to Veedereburg where the interment took place Tuesday.
59th Year, No. 14
Patriotic Quam.
NE of the most interesting of the colonies belonging to the Lmted States is Guam. Guam was owned by the Spanish and ltu Uncle Sam warships appeared to capture it the inhabitants not knowing that war was declared, received it with great cordiality.
Guam is interesting because it is amusing. It surrendered in a regular comic opera manner and it has kept up its farcical reputation.
It isn't of the slightest practical benefit to anybody. Its harbor is so shoal that ships can't get nearer than a mile of the shore.
Its inhabitants are so lazy that they can't raise enough food to supply the extra demands of the United States' garrison, and one small schooner can convey all the products for sale by makiug two trips a year.
But Guam is patriotic. The semiannual mail from Guam is just in and brings an entertaining account of its first Fourth of July celebration. The people took to the new holiday like ducks to the water and kept firing the guns until all the powder on the island had been used up.
In order to be fully patriotic there were four goddesses of liberty, who rode in the triumphal car, which car was a bullock cart.
It was intended at first to have but one, but the girls of Guam got into a fight over the honor and four had to be selected.
Even then the goddesses got into a wrangle as to a question of rank, and one bit the other's cheek. Then a wheel of the chariot came off and all the goddesses were spilled out when a lively fight took place while the triumphal car proceeded in empty grandeur.
Guam is all right, which is mere than can be said of our other "colonies."—Chicago Democrat.
A Corn Stalk Rally.
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at Linden Saturday afternoon the population turned out to have what they styled a "Cora Stalk Rally." The New Richmond band was on hand to discourse music. The belles of Linden were all out in their best and most fetching millinery and dry goods all carrying corn stalks tied with vari-colored ribbons. Some few rode in buggies decorated with corn fodder and bunting, and the rest walked out to the cellulose factory where they marched around and bid the concern welcome Some enthusiastic speeches were made and many prophecies as to the future of Linden were launched on the prairie breezes. By the way, Linden is a busy little town, but as to making a city there that is along way off. The "oldest inhabitant." will not live to see it, nor to tell his grandchildren that he caught gophers (vhtre that sky scraper stands, or plowed corn on the ground where
Cramp's branch ship yard now is. One beautiful feature of Linden people is hope, and another is hustle. If Crawfordsville had more of it she would be better off'.
Cholera in Indiana.
THEHog
State Board of Health reports that hog cholera has been re-' ported as prevalent in the following counties: Clinton, Franklin, Henry, Tipton, Warrick, Warren and Wayne. Wayne county got its cholera from a car load of infected hogs which were purchased at the Indianapolis stock yards last August and which were shipped to Linn, Randolph, county, and from there driven south into Wayne. The law expressly provides that swine shipping shall not be controlled. This provision was introduced by a farmer legislator when the live stock sanitary commission law was passed in 1889.
Hall Dedicated.
THE
new Pythian Castle Hall ai Mace was dedicated Thursday night last by Dan'l E. Storms, of Lafayette, Grand Vice Chancellor. There was a large attendance of Knights from surrounding towns. The Mace lodge is twenty-five years old and has always been a prosperous institution. It has 126 members and is financially well to do. It reported assets to the last meeting of the Grand Lodge of $6,355.
In the Jail.
OWN in the body of the jail Mr. Parish can meditate on the harsh way of the tr his burden wo could smoke Hoboe cigars.
ransgressor. Half uld fee lifted if ha