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that his hymn originally began, 'Hark!
How all the Welkin Rings and is
very different in many lines from what
we sing to day. The version now SO
universally adopted is probably from
And not only Christmas, but Easter,
hymns, for he was the author of Christ
the Lord Is Risen Today And here
I may add, as curious fact, that the
authorship Of the other Easter hymn,
s.Jesus Christ Is Risen To-day" is I'M
known. But it belongs to this period,
as it first appears in 1862, and the last
stanza was written by Wesley.
/ have not mentioned q Woman's
some Of you may know that beginning,
Father. Whate' Ell Of earthly bliss"
This was written by Annie Steel, who
was a great sufferer all her life, so that
these words were not, as is sometimes
the case, the offspring Of morbid self
pity or Pharisaic resignation.
1t is to a Welsh Calyinist, William
Williams, that we owe, Guide me, O.,
thou great Jehovah" He was one Of
those influenced by Lady Huntington,
a lady Of whom George LII. said to one
of his Bishops, Il wish there was a
Lady Huntingdon in every diocese in
the kingdom
Scotland has given us two valuable
hymns from the paraphrase of 1913,
s.HoW bright thy glorious spirit shines
by William Cameron, a Midlothian
minister, and "The people that in
darkness sat-" by John Morrison; but
the latter has been altered into its
present shape by the compilers OF
Hymns Ancient, and Modern
A Strange Career.
I allude to the Olney hymns IN
speaking Of Cowper, John Newton
who was Cowper's coadjutor in the
work, was one of the leading Evangeli
calls. His strange and chequered ca
reer reads like a romance. The epitapl
which he wrote for himself sums III
his history: "Once an infdel and liber
tire, a servant of slaves in Africa.
Never was there a complete instance O.
Prodigal Son. After starting life az
a midshipman he deserted, was pu
into chains and publicly whipped
More hardened than ever, he went OF
another voyage to Africa, settled il
the Island Of Plantains and passed :
miserable, daredevil life in the ser
vice Of a slave-trader. His father sen
for him. In his return, during ted
ious voyage endangered by violen
storms, he studied Thomas a Kempis
From that moment his conversion be
| gan. He began to preach, and wa
presented to the Vicarage Of Olney
where his friendship for Cowper ha
become historical The striking poem
beginning @
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Jesu, pro me perforatus.

The hymn has a curious history. It
was published first in the Gospel
Magazine" 1776, at the end of an arti-
Gle on the Atonement, and bore the
title, "a Living and Dying Prayer for
the Hottest Believer in the World. .
The article, which it follows, is called,
Questions and Answers Relative to
the National Debt" wherein numeri-
cal calculation is made of mems sins,
and the hymn is meant to emphasize
the necessity Of atonement and was
written to counterfeit the Arminianism
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-09-20
OLD HYMN WRITER'S,
SONGS PRODUCED IN THE EIGH-
TENTH CENTURY.
isaac Watts and His WorlSs-TOp-
lady, Who Wrote Crock of Ages''
Charles Wes1ey's Six Thousand
Hymns-A Romance of Hymnology.

cyhe hymns Of the evangelical school
are in many ways the most interesting
and important, as they are certainly
the most numerous. They are the tok-
en- and accompaniment Of that great
religious revival which began in the
middle of the eighteenth century. 1t
has always been so. Hymn-Writing
has attended each reformation Of the
Church The two Saint Bernards in
the Middle Ages, Luther at the Refor-
nation, Ixeblc during the 'Tractarian
movement, Heber in the spread Of for
eign missions, all promoted and illus
trated their teachings by hymns. And
so it was in the middle Of the last cen
tury.
The book which may be said to have
had most effect in starting the move
ment was Laws Serious Call, a
book to which DR.. Johnson accredited
his first religious impressions, and
whose author the historian Gibbon pro-
| nounced to be a worthy and pious
| man who believed all he professed and
! practiced all that he enjoined." The
! organizer was John Wesley, whose
! chief object was to use his own words,
''to promote the love of man and the
| the love Of God for mans sake, .
| George Whitfield was the orator, of
whom Garrick said that he could pro
nounce Mesopotamia in such way as
to excite the tears of the audience.
John Fletcher, of Madeley, was the
saint; Selma, Lady Huntingdon, was
the patroness; and the poet was
:, Charles Wesley.
It began within the bounds of the
Church and finally spread outside its
borders. But the Church immeasura
bly, the richer for the leaven it intro
duced, is animated by much of its
spirit still. By the interest it invoked
in each individual soul it paved the
way for the anti-slayery movement
and to it in a great measure we are in
debted for the moderation displayed
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gerous with profound religious feeling
at a moment when they might have
been led into violence or atheism.
Isaac Watts.
The first place among it's hymn writ
ers must be assigned to Isaac Watts.
His infancy was saddened by religious
persecution. His father was thrown
into prison for his non-conformity, and
his mother used to sit with him as a
beby on her lap outside the prison
bars. am afraid his name provokes
in most men a slight sense Of the lu-
dicrous. We think of him as the apos-
tie of the nursery, a kind of clerical
Gammer Gurton. We remember "How
doth the little busy bee," and sLet dogs
delight to bark and bite" and we for
get that the same author wrote, when
I survey the wondrous cross,' ''Come
let us join our cheerful SONGS" "Je-
sus shall reign where'er the sum- 'sNot
all the blood of beasts (of which the
strange story is told that Jewess.
after reading the words on a piece Of
paper in which a packet Of butter was
Z wrapped, became a convert to Chris
tianity) and above all, 80 God, our
help in ages past" He began writing
when quite a youth. ''Give us some
, thing better, young man" said the dea-
con Of his chapel when young Watts
complained Of the unsatisfactory char
acter of the existing hymns Watts
accepted the challenge and wrote a
new hymn every Sunday for two years.
DR.. Johnson said Of him, and he was by
no means indulgent to Congregational
hymns, Watts has done better than
, others what no man has done WE'LL
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disaDproved.
But the chief poet Of the Evangeli
cal School was Charles Wesley. He
wrote in all about 5000 hymns, and it
is said that he used to carry about
with him little cards in his pocket to
jot down the verses as they occurred
to him. He was cultivated and re-
fined scholar, and an ardent supporter
Of the Church Of England, and so must
be carefully distinguished from the lat
er Wesleyans and Alethodists who
sprang from the movement inaugural
ed by him and his brother John, most
Of whom We're men of little education
and ill-disposed to the Church.
The beautiful hymn "Jesus Lover of
NY Soul is said to have been suggest
ed by little bird which flew into his
study to take refuge from the pursuit
Of a hawk. His brother John always
considered his funeral hymn Come
Let Us Join Our Friends Above" to be
his finest Isaac Watts, on the other
hand preferred that noble compost
ton. "Come, o Thou Traveller I'm
known and thought it worth all the
verses which he himself had written.
AS we read that Pericles, the males
tic and reserved Athenian statesman,
broke down but once, and that at the
funeral Of his own son, SO we are told
that the only occasion on which John
Wesley was seen to give way to his
feelings was when, at the age Of 81,
fortnight after his brothers death,
he was giving out the words In the
hymn:
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"A Queer state OF Afralrs.

In Franklin county, Maine, there.
is divorced wife who for two years
has been housekeeper for herex-hus-
band. Things go on smoothly, in,
spite of the fact that the house
keeper IS visited twice q week by an
attentive beau.
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and Montgomery, in moment when
enthusiasm was perhaps stronger than
Judgment, ranks him next to David.
One hymn Of his,
There is a land of pure delight,
Where saints immortal reign.
Is said to have been suggested by the
view Of the New Forest across South
ampton Water. You remember the
imagery of the hymn
Sweet fields across the swelling flood
Are dressed in living green.
And again,
Death. like a narrow sea, divides
That heavenly land from ours.
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Lord" So much dissension has ragged
round the Eucharist that it is a pleasure
to remember that he, Non-conform-
list, wrote the words, "Ny God and is
thy table spread q It was not only
written by a dissenter, but it was in
corporated in the English Prayer Book
on the blank leaves at the end, by a
university printer who was himself a
dissenter. and it is now an accepted IA
vorite with high churchmen. :" God of
Bethel" is his too. This was Living
stones favorite hymn, and it was sung
at his funeral at Westminster Abbey
in 1874. The verse beginning
Oh spread thy covering wings around
Till all our wanderings cease.
must have sounded peculiarly appro-
pirate to the weary pilgrimage of the
great traveller
Toplady.
Augustus Toplady claims our atten-
ton next. Hew as one of the Calvin
lists of whom I have spoken, and as
such, q stout opponent Of John Wes-
ley. He enjoys the distinction of hav-
ing written what is probably the most
popular hymn in the English language
Rock Of Ages" It was the favorite
Of two such widely different minds us
DR.. Pusey and Prince Albert; and
when the Sunday at Home" instituted,
few years ago, competition for a
list Of the best 100 hymns, out of s.
500 lists which We're sent in, ssRocI of
Ages was placed first in 3215. The
original version contains two lines
which are different from the one we
generally sing. Toplady wrote, when
I Soar to Tracts Unknown and again
when Mine Eyestrings Break in
DEATH" an expression due to a current
belief that death produced this effect
| on the eyes.
Mr.. Gladstone has written a very
fine rendering Of it in Latin, beginning
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-09-20
Top Dressing Winter Wheat and
Rye.

Instead of hauling the barnyard ma
nure to the field as made. many formers
pile it, up in the yard, and after the
wheat or rye is sown top-dress the field
with the thoroughly decomposed mater
ial, which is usually spread directly
from the wagon, entafling less labor
and a more even distribution than by
any other plan. There is, however, a
question about making this application
after sowing. Those who have tried
both plans in the same field and upon
the same crop, prefer to apply the
manure just previous to the last har-
rowing, or at least before drilling, as
this insures not only more even dis
tribution but filming Of all Jumps
and the covering with soil of a large
per cent of the manure, placing it near
er the growing plant, where the soil
will absorb the fertility, instead Of al
lowing it to escape, as much Of it does
| when simply scattered over the sur
face. The more thorough the har.
rowing the better the effect Of the
manure.
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DccD flowing.

In horticulture as well as agricultui
there has always been difference {
opinion, says Meehan's Monthly, as to
the value of stirring the soil deep.
The discussion is another illustration
of the point often made, that differ
ences of opinion frequently come from
not understanding what each side of
the disputation means. If we have
six inches Of rich surface soil and 1low
twelve inches deep, supposing that
could be done, all this rich surface soil
is thrown to the bottom and the poor
soil brought to the top. This would
undoubtedly be an evil, as plant food
is always in the best condition for as
similation by the plant when it is near
the surface, so that oxygen can act on
it.
10 bury the food out of the reach Of
oxygen is literally to starve the plant.
But deep soil is certainly an immense
advantage to any plant whether grown
by farmer or gardner. What is known
as subsoiling, that is -loosening of the
subsoil, while still retaining it as sub
soil, leaving the upper surface where
it was originally, near the surface is
one Of the very best practices in either
farming or gardening. If the question
should be stated, is it right to bury
! good surface soil deep below the sur
| face? there would only be negative
| side to it.
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Isaac Waits.

In England during the French Revolu-
ton, for it infected the classes which
were just the most excitable and dan
gerous with profound religious feeling
at moment when they might have
been led into violence or atheism
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Utilizing Corn Stalks for Feed.
My way of utilizing corn stalks for
as the stalks and lower half Of the
blades begin to turn brown says a
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-09-20

must have sounded peculiarly appro-
pirate to the weary pilgrimage of the
great traveller.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-09-20

Oh spread thy covering wings around
Till all our wanderings cease.
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1894-05-21
EndeayOr News.

The song books have come for
the convention. One Thousand were
received this morning. These books
will be disposed of as Exell's were
at the Sam Jones meeting. Anyone
wanting I book can get 1t by paying
35 cents tor it, and if he don't want
it after the con vention has ad.
iourned, he can bring it back, in
good order, and the committee will
refund him money. These books
can be had at all the music and
book stores. and it would be a good
idea for everyone who expects 10 al
tend and enjoy the convention to
get a book and begin to look over
the songs. The singing will be one
of the important features OF the con
ventit n.
The Christian Endeavor conven.
ton choir will meet at the Cumber.
lam Presbyterian church this even
ing for practice. All singers in the
city, whether members of the So
ciety or not, are arged to attend
these rehearsals and to join with the
choir in its convention work.
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1894-05-21
PERSONAL.

Geo. M. Bailey, the Sam Jones
editor of the Dallas News, spent
last night in the city, guest of the
Pacific hotel. He left for Austen
this morning.
A. B. Meek, one of the most
prominent travelling men on the
road, a genial companion and a
good salesman, is registered at the
Pacific. Mr. Meek makes a period.
ical visit TO Waco in the interest of
his house. He is always ready to
discuss the virtues of rubber shoe
and mackentosh.
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1894-05-21
At the Christian Church.

Yesterday was a we'll attended
day at the Christian church. The
audiences were all large and the
sermons of the pastor, Mr.. Calvin,
were up to the usual standard. The
meeting of four weeks closed last
night with fifty four additions to
TIE church. This week will be
devoted largely to the work of the
coming convention of Christian
Endeavor, and all midweek meet.
ings except prayer meeting on
Wednesday evening, will be dis
continued.
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Couldn't Study.
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ANNA, Texas, May 7, 1894.
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Since using your "Cacterine" three
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Improve the Summer Evenings

Improve the Summer Evenings
BY taking course in book keeping,
shorthand, typewriting or attending
my regular night school. Mathe.
MATES, penmanship, spelling, gram.
mar, business correspondence and
commercial law, can enter either
department at any time, but next
regular classes will start June 4th
and July end. Terms moderate,
payments easy. For further par
ticulars address Practical Business
College, Edward Toby, Jr., presi.
dent.
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1894-05-21
Hotel Arrivals.

Pacific HorEL.-Nat Pinkston,
Hubbard; X B Cooley, Dallas; s
Mayer, New Orleans; Arch Cribbs,
St Lorls; J N Henderson, Bryan; r
L Henry. Texarkans; c Shields, 6
D Lane, 4 + jackson, Abe Straua,
St Louis; w Nj Broake, Chicago; u
I'll Lassiter, J c Ch,i-man, Gates
vile; A IL Hirman, Dallas; W r
Hawkins, Houston; w f jones,
Santa Fe Ry; r G Ledford,
Nj waukee; Nj Norton, Chicago; B
ID Organ and wife, Bastrop, Tex;
S A Mills, Dallas; J A Hornby,
Fort Worth; Theo Bendit, J II
Bonn, N c.; l. D Tobin and nurse,
Corsicans; Geo w Haines, Fort
Worth; G Walker, JF Turner,
Houston; w r Hudson, Wilder.
vile; I'D Sparks, city; f G Beattie,
n Y; D L Collins, Bryan; F M
Hamilton, DALAI; Lee Rosenthal,
Memphis; A B Meek, st Louis; II
M Bailey, Dallas; ] G Oliver, 81
Louis; w I'll Braswell, f G Con
nor, G w M Kennon, orty;
A P Littler, l. Newburg, city; r
b PeatIie, ON aha; l. g Harrison,
Brennan; K A Mcdowell, } D
Brown, Gatesv,lle; B F Wei'zel,
Cincinnati; J Jolonick Jr, Dallas
} T Mohers, Birmingham; F A Nc.
Dowell, Fort Worth; F II Willard,
Milwaukee; Fl L DeWolf, Boston;
} w Straus, Italy; Geo L Haven,
New York; Fl s Cooke, st Louis;
J r Litter, marlborough, N G;
j T Turner, Houston; Jno A Oily.
son, Mt CAIN; r E Ledford, Mil.
waukee; Mss Kate Thomps Mar.
lin; Floyd Davis Socora, N M.
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Special Notice.

l will make suitings, pants or
anything in our line at prices that
so.called, self-styled merchant tail
ors can't reach, and guarantee my
work in every particular. l carry
a line of goods that cannot be beat,
employ the most skilled workmen
and am here on the spot to make
good my guarantee.
Louis GABERr,
ll8 South Fourth Street.
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1894-05-21
A Sure Cure for Piles.

Itching Piles are known by mois.
ture like perspiration, causing in
tense itching when warm. This
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Protruding, yield at once to DR..
Bosanko's Pile Remedy, which acts
directly on parts affected, absorbs
tumors, allays itching and effects a
permanent cure. so Cts. Druggists
or mail. Circulars free. DR.. Bo
sanko, Philadelphia, Pa.
Sold by Williamson Drug Com,
pany, Druggists.
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The Hearing POSTPONED.

Today was set for the hearing of
claims against the Hobson company
before Special Master John q. Win.
ter. The hearing was postponed
by consent of all concerned until
the 4th proximo.
The report of the receiver will
then be heard.
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1894-05-21
Worlds Columbian Exposition

Worlds Columbian Exposition
Will be of value to the world by
illustrating the improvements in
the mechanical arts and eminent
physicians will tell you that the
progress in medical agents has been
of equal importance, and as a
strengthening laxative the Syrup
Of Figs is far in advance of all 9th.
ers,
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1894-05-21

Mr.. w. D. Jackson, the old
reliable photographer, is still making
pictures true to life, finished in the
highest style of art. Call and
examine specimens at ll2 North
Fifth street.
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A RETIRED BUSINESS WOMAN
A Page From Her History.

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Eefore had taken one bottle Of the New
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ALL AROUND TOWN.

The fine weather yesterday drew
large congregations at the churches
A number of persons were ar.
rested ard jailed today on charges
of vagrancy.
Emerson Sparks is being tried in
Judge SCOTS court this afternoon
on charge of burglary.
The sensational divorce case of
Mrs. Dora w. McCleland VS..
Peter McClelland, will come up in
Judge Scott's court tomorrow.
Four boys were taken through
Waco to the Reform atory by the
removal agent today, two of whom
were negroes and two white.
The case of G. w. White VS.. the
Waco Water and Light company,
an action of trespass to try title,
set for today, has been continued.
Farmers state that owing to the
recent rains, weeds, like other vege
tation, ale very rank, and there is
necessarily lots Of work for cotton
choppers.
Six fire hydrants have been put
in on Pre- vident Heights and the
residents of that suburb are discuss.
ing the organization of a volunte er
fire department.
The county commissioners court
met this morning and have been
busily occupied all day checking the
accounts and settling with the
county treasurer.
Otto Schneider was tried in Judge
Scott's court this morning for theft
of bicycle. He was found guilty
and his punishment assessed at two
years in the reformatory.
The non jury civil docket was
taken up this morning in Judge
Goodrich's court. A small case,
styled the Waco Building associa-
tion Va. Toland, is on trial.
The registration books closed
Saturday night. Over 200 names
of white voters were added to the
list since the recent city election, the
showing that the total registration
of Waco is over 1000.
The big tent in which the Chris.
tian Eudeavor meetings will be held
arrived this morning over the Cot
ton Belt. The location has not been
determined upon yet but will prob.
ably be decided tomorrow.
Rev. G. M. Beckwitb, general
missionary of the diocese of Texas
of the Episcopal church, arrived in
the city Friday and preached two
powerful and effective sermons at
st. Paut's church yesterday.
The following clses were disposed
of in the city court this morning:
Richard Lahy, G Thompson, John
Stewart, Thomas Mealy, John John
son, John Williams, sleeping in a
public place, fined 80 each; w. w
Walker, Charles Davis, drunk,
fined 81 SO each.