Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-07-23
SUNDAY TOPICS.


Fret not because the promise of the buds
The fruit doh not fulfill;
Was not the hope and fragrance which they
brought
To us blessing still?
Nor count as lost the seed we SOW in faith
Upon barren land
And reap not. Doth not God the purpose
know,
And bless the sewers hand?
Spurn not the vow the eager spirit makes
That weak flesh cannot keep;
The ocean bubbles break, but underneath
There flows current deep.
The buds that blossom not, the withered
seed,
The bows we leave undone,
Are gems we drop; yet Angels mark their
fall,
And raise them to the crown
Evangelist Barnes is As years old.
His hair is dark, with deep reddish
tint. Until recently he wore side
whiskers, his chin only being shaver.
These have now gone, leaving all
alone in it's glory fierce looking
mustache. The brows are deeply
marked and crowd down over the
eyes, suggesting force of character,
not to say stubbornness.
Asked from this worlds stand
point if there is no life beyond the
grave, if there is no immortality, if
all spiritual calculation is to end here,
why then, the mighty work of God
is to end in nothingness. But if this
is only state of infancy, only the
education for eternity, in which the
soul is to gain it's wisdom and ex-
perience for higher work, then to ask
why such mind is taken from us is
just as absurd as to question why
the tree of the forest mas it's first
training in the nursery garden. This
is but the nursery, ground from
which we are to be transplanted into
the great forest of Gods eternal
universe-F. W. Robertson.
The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher' s
latest convictions were expressed by
uIIu WHSH ue SdIu WHICH people
ask me if [ believe Heaven is a lo>
cality, or a place fenced in from all
trespassers, I reply in the negative.
Heaven is as boundless as the uni>
verse. If you ask me if think there
is hell-that is locality or a pit
from which no inmate can escape, I
once more make a negative reply.
Do [ believe there is no punishment
beyond this earth life? [ say there
is no place of endless torment; but l
do think there must be a certain
form or degree of punishment that
will extend for limit into eternity.
This punishment will be the remorse
for sin committed. We shall be a
great while in the other life before
we cease to be sorry for the misdeeds
of our earthly career. But ultimate
ly peace and happiness will come to
the souls of all" Some people will
be inclined to regard him as a Uni
versalist.
OF the whole system of Mexican
worship by far the most prominent
feature was it's astonishing ferocity
It was drenched in every part with
human blood. Its priests were an
army Of sturdy butchers, whose
highest function.w was to cleve the
victim breast with the sacrifcial
hatchet and pluck out his palpitating
heart; it's devotees were cannibals
Who devoured the victims flesh in
sacramental feast, and like the priests
of Baal cut themselves with knives
and lancets. Each month had its
festivals of slaughter, and in the
capital alone 10000 human
victims are said to have been
annually offered. From slaves
and criminals, from prisoners captur
ed III the wars undertaken for the
purpose, from troops of children
purchased for sacrifice, was the
CHASTITY death contingent continually
recruited. Some were fatted
in the sacred cages, others loaded
with honors and satiated with SEN
suaI delights to make them the more
acceptable offering; some persisted
Oh the altar by the fatal stroke o.
the priest, others in the mockery o.
gladiatOrial combat; some were fay,
ed alive, others flung headlong into
maintain whirlpools and lakes
Never was superstition SO sickenine
with intolerable horrors.-Black-