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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-12-25

Mr.. Havemeyer. head ot the sugar
trust. is quoted as saying tina: his great
concern must have the half cent pro-
lection back again on rctIucd sugars or
else sooner or later 90 ONO bankruptcy"
Well, II is doubtful whether this pitt
ful appeal VIII meet wI;h cordial re-
sponsc The country IS not much In love
with the sugar trust Or any similar In
s,itution.
4 When Mr.. IIavemcycr comes forward
ito ask for hi; half cent pound som"-
body may suggest to him that IL the
trust will squeeze the water out Of its
stock il will be able 20 60 on paying very
fair dividends on ;hc real value OF the
thing.
We do not understand that the coun-
Try has adopted the sugar trust as Il
founding and madr Itsrlf responsible
FOR the trusts bringing Zip amid all the
surrounding Of refined and luxurious
home.
There Is an Impression that the sugar
trust has done particularly well under
the Wilsou-Gorna bill. Il measure in
which It received distinguished consider
alton.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-12-25

Mr.. Austin Beach sends 10 TIM Pits
bursh Times an Interesting pen picture
Of wcyler. captain general Of Cuba. Mr.
Beach IS trying to GET Mt the truth. and
so gives Wcyl"r n chance to speak for
himself. II Mr.. Beach can get on the
insurgcnt side Of the lin" and let Us
know just what he finds there. his let
ters Will he still more valuable.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-12-25

New iork's ;op'shwycrs have a
Christmas sensation growing out Of a
little dinner given few nights since.
a Young man vas about to be married,
lis brother Thought u farewell dinner
a little out Of the ordinary would DO the
correct Thing. Twenty-Five bloods were
to be at tho board.
or courrc they would have all the deli
cacIca OF the ScnaOn. and all the wine
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-12-25

The Spanish idea o, the United States
Is that one Spanish warShip could blow
up the whole country. It would be u
real missionary Sirvcrr 10 thr dons>t"
undcccive them before they rush over
here and COMPEL the police 20 run them
in for disturbing the peace.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-12-25

Pennsylvania has L woman l1I years
old who suIl runs her sDir1iug wheel
There are others. younger, who run ihcir
spinning whccli. but they take their
spins out OF doors. Wha! world o!
change this Is.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-12-25

\ wild report. probably set going ny
4 wild reporter. quotes Mr.. William
Jennings Bryan as saying that Il" Is
out OF politics The improbable feature
Of the story is that Mr. Bryan has dis
covered his awful situation.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-12-25

II you have not given anything yNu
are not able To give, and have not rc-
cc!ycd nothing that cmhIrrass"S You,
and have a good Conscience and d!-
Gest!on that attends To It's own business
without hu,h"riuE you, Christmas finds
You pretty well liked TO cnoJy its glad
y.ur
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-12-25

4 woman will be one OF the University
OF Pcnunsylvania's repreSe natives in
the debate with Cornell. Note tina: our
women are pushing steadily 10 the front.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-12-25

Recipe for good Forget
nll cares and determine To make happy
everybody about you.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-12-25

Az n remedy for all forms n Head.
nchc Electric Riltcrs has proved to bc
the very hest II effects II permanent
euro nnd the most dreaded habitunl slcl;
headaches yield TO its influence. % We
urge all who nrc afflicted to procure II
bottle, and give this remedy fnlr trial,
In cnaca OF hnbituHl constipation I;lrc.
trio Filters cures by giving the needed
tone 10 the bowels. and few cnHcH lon,
resist the use Of thiB medicine, Try il
once. Large bottles only ATTY cents at
Logan Co.'S Drug Store.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-12-25
NEW ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

NOTiCI;-I no SDT' BEi.ONG Tn A..
~ secret organization H. q. HAST
Fourteenth street
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-12-25

Tho suit OF john +. DrHvo and others
against Samuel NJ. naTrah. formerly SUI
prrintcndcnt Of the Wheeling gas works,
brings ont the fac; that III" suprDintcnd-
rut was interested In the Harvey patent
EaS process with which am experiment
was made in the gas works. This de-
vclormcrt entities MIR. Darrah 90 the
floor. Perhaps he has an explanation
that VIII make tn" transaction look bet
ter than 1t does NOW.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-12-25

IGOR ll;ET--AROIJr APRIL S1n,r.'
l. ltOOM now occupied By Nnrrr Is,
Company, on Main AirCci App,g HI. ~
l.. OFT. OF OFT Bros, d ca.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-12-25

Samuel J. ridden was great lawyer.
h,r not 1t great enough lawyer To draw
tack. The last will and testament "
this eminent lawyer hnS Just hud an
other hole punched In It, tho supreme
court OF New York deciding that hi'
bcGucstJ for libraries at YOnkcra and
New Lebanon are invalid.
II MIR. TllLru could come back for a
Hltlc while HI would doubtless take
Srcat satisfaction in dlGpoSinG Of his
own money In h!1 own way How can II
man know what II" courts viii 10 with
his will? Aud II Samuel J. Trldcn did
not know enough 10 draw.a good Will,
where Il the lawyer that docs know?
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-06-13

BY this is not meant man narrowed
! by local beliefs, but man in harmony
with the ideas and progress of his age.
He will be a man OF God and Il man
Of the world, not by worshipping God
and mammon, but serving God and
humanity.
Let men be alive having all THEN
energies directed toward the advance
ment of the natural world let them he
full of Christ's spirit, using their
greatest talents for the advancement o.
the spiritual world; and thus striving
for the development of his fellow men
each in turn will be lifted nearer the
pinnacle which it is his absolute duty
TO attain.
a man of the day, man of III,
highest aspirations, of true and noble
purposes, man to whom religion is
his whole larger self, seen in the light
and presence of God-would it not b,
meet that all become such?
The true man is indeed the noblesl
work of God. He is the ruler of the
earth, the benefactor of humanity anIi
both god and man unite in blessing
him. He rests on the unbounded love
of Christ, believing that to his Savior
all things are possible. .'Deep in the
heart of the noble man it lies forever
legible, that as an invisible and just
God made him, so must and will Gods
Justice, and this alone, be il ever SC
invisible, prosper in all controversies
and enterprises and battles whatsoever.
ANNA HIT GROVES.
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site extreme, carries the doctrine of IL
providence in human affairs to fatalistic
conclusion, II doctrine which accepts
robbery and murder as providental
phenomena, considers national sins
simply as necessary events in the
nations progress to glory; and by
treating every direction given 10y the
public mind as if it could not be
avoided, is sure to inllamc aud satisfy
the worst. This fallacy applies to
nations rs well rs to individuals and is
the result of considering the mind as Il
blind force, not as an intelligent,
responsible, self-directing energy.
If the direction OF the American
mind to industrial productions has not
been sufficiently checked by these two
parties, we must look for Il better
opposition to it in the various classes
of rcfurmcrs who are not 81 much
dis@uStcd with the community as To
! lose all power of influencing it, and
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COLLEGE, LEXINGTON, NC
ences change his character, they also
| chaAge the charater of the nation.
/ Consequently a new public sentiment,
| as expressed through the press, trade,
politics and social communion tends TO
invigorate or to deaden the individual
heart or brain. Thus the American
mind promises to be mind, composite
! in the sense of assimilation and not of
mere aggregation.
The prosperity of Il nation demands
not only a diversity in industrial
occupation but also a diversity in the
direction of thought which shall
answer to the various sentiments and
capacities of the soul.
1t is in this that most nations fail
their activity being narrowed by the
dominion of one impulse or tendency,
winch leads them to the summit of
some special excellence and then hurls
them into decay and ruin. Thus the
| genius and capital OF Italy were
directed to the fine arts. Its wealth
is, accordingly, to much in palaces and
cathedrals, in pictures and statues;
and its worship of beauty and dlsdain
of the practical has resulted in an idle
and impoverished people.
But there is also danger that n
nations worship of labors, whose
worth is measured by money, will give
Il sordid character to its greatest
eXertions OF power, separate heroism
from It's motives, destroy all love for
ideal beauty and intiame individuals
with seliishness, corrupting the very
core of the national life.
The great mass of American life,
with economies us its watchword, has
reused two classes, VIA class of
violent reformcrs who scorn economics
on the ground of morality; and Il class
of violent radicals who scorn economics
on the ground of glory. These two
classes are bitter enemies To each
other and injurious to the welfare of
/ the nation. The first class believes so
firmly in the principle of free will and
personal responsibility that they have
almost converted themselves from
! individuals into IndivIdualisms, and
strive to separate themselves from
! the national mind and live mentally
and morally apart from it.
The other class, going to the ofpo-
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development. Such men as Wycliffe,
Calvin, Luther, Knox and Wesley,
may he counted among the greatest of
herOes-men whose influences will last
throughout eternity. These are tire
characters after which the coming
man will model his life. Not the man
of mere intellectual capacity, but the
man of lofty sentiment, pure purpose
anu moral character will rule succeed
ing centuries. lie will be an optimist.
For who can look ut life as God has
given it to us without finding the good,
the true, the beautiful? Pcssimlstic
views will no longer he tolerated. A
pcsslmist is like man looking INTO n
deep vale who sees only dark crags
here and there, while on the opposite
side all is clothed IN lovelness. He
sees in life only defeat, and curses his
own existence Furthermore the CON-
ing man will be man of his times.
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mel for the presentation Ia our minds oil
the divine personality. The Eternal One
has condscendPd to make but this one
statement concerning His being and
concerning the nature of that being: Il
ann Il am that | am. and Jesus
Christ in vindicating His claim to divine
character. made no higher statemen,
than this: "Bcrore Abraham was | am,
and every work that the divine hand
ever performed and every utterince that
the divine wuId ever conveyed To human
hearing. and every exercise of power
God ever gave the SONS of man, is hut i'll
vindication of this simple announce
ment made under the letter of the law.
Il am.
But again, the law of God asserts It's
perfection and vindicateS that pcrirr-
iiuI. i'll that it is tie channel of divine
wisdom in the PSALM | read in y"ul
hearing this morning: Tie heavens
declare the glory of God. The firm /
ment sheweth his handiwork. Day un-
tn day-IltteIeth speech and night un!0
night sheweth knowledge. There no
speech nor language where thcil voice Is
not beard.
This law of God manlfcsts its perIec,
ton and vindicatcS its perfection II that
1t Is the channel through which the
knowledge cf the divine wisdom is made
mind. The law uf God furnishes Il
channel through which our minds get
hold of the power of God; the power
that makes good every utteranrp OF the
letter: the power that rules over every
thing that it originally brought into
being. Bat more than i'll anything else,
and more than III everything else. Tie
law of God vin,licatrS its claim tO per
frctIun III that il furnishes he channel
liN-Itga nIIi
la a rcvollrd. sinful. SHINING and lost
race. II furnishes the channel through
which this grace which produces the
gospel li,.dS way Ia the human mind
and human heart, human life. human
interests and human destination; and
This grace accOmplIshes its work in The
world 10y its work OF restoring a revolted
world to its place in Gods universe. Il
reyolted race to their loyalty To the God
that made them. The law then vindi-
Gates its perfection as the channel OF
grace in that il reveals to us the son oi
GCd incarnate, and makes provision for
the incarnation of the spirit of God To
the individual human life. There is no
other process by which mankind can he
recovered; there is no other process by
which the individual man can be put
upon the basis from which advancement
upwards from his present state is
achievable. The grace of God assists
us in the building of church which
shall be the body of our Lord Jesus
Christ, which shall he to Him in his
effort to save and sanctify the world, to
prepare feet for going, hands for work
ing and hearts for loving, a power for
accomplishing the great end for which
he came into the world. The church of
God is spiritual empire made up of in
dividual kingdoms. in which Jesus
Christ reigns, the holy spirit dwells and
the word of God abides, which God
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of the mind from which they pro
ceeded.
On the contrary, we can form no
rational estimate of the individual
without considering him in relation to
his age and country. Thus Pcricles,
Scipio and Chatham lose much of their
genuineness if not considered rs related
to the Greece. the Rome and the
England which produced them, colored
their thoughts and passions and so
moulded them that Greece saw in
PerIclcs the exponent of her power and
intellect: Rome bcheld in Scipio her
own will and pride of reason, and
England recognized in Chatham 5
Norman energy and Saxon strength
her honesty, intelligence and pride.
But since Il national mind implies a
nation and not the union OF indididuals
or states, dare we say that there is
such II thing as an American mind? II
so what is its character, and what
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-06-13
ANNUAL SERMON.
Baccalaureate Sermon Deliv-
cred by DR.. J. H. Prltchett,
of Mexico, Mo.
THE LAW OF THE LORD is PERFECT
Was tn Subject of an Able Sermon,
Which Was Heard by Vast
Audience.

Last Sunday was Commencement
Sunday for Central The Methodist
church was filed to OveriiOwing at l l
o clock To hear the sermon 10 the grad
uates. preached by Rev. DR.. J. IL.
Pritchett, of Mexico, Mo.
At 1890 o'clock the church was
crowded 10 IFS utmost capacity. There
were perhaps Thousand people crowded
into the church. Every inch of standing
room was occupied by anxious heaters,
and many were turned away, being
unable TO get in sufficient proximity to
the preacher Ia hear his voice.
An excellent program of music was
arranged, and this was finely cXrcnttd.
The services were grand AID the sermon
most excellent. 1t was a rare treat Ia
all who heard it.
In opening the exercises DIR. Pritchett
offered this prayer:
oh God. our help and Onr only help
i'm the ages that are past; our hope and
our only hope for the years that are yet
to come: rhOu who hast been our shelter
from each stormy blast that has swept
over our sinful world; Thou who hast
promised to be our eternal home-in the
shelter of Thy shadow still may we dwell
secure. we are here this bright, beau
tiful Sabbath morning to express our
continued and our increased trust
i'm Thee as the director of our
lives, as Thou hast been the protector of
them. We pray Thee to smile upon us
this morning and touch our hearts,
that we may feel the sense of Thy pres
ence. May we recognize this place as
Thy house, the place where Thou art,
the place where Thou hast been. Please
to reveal ThyseIf unto Thy children as
Thou dost not, can'st not unto the
world. May we lift up our faces heav-
onward this morning, that we may re-
ceive our Fathers smile. May we lift
our hearts this morning and seek Thy
communion, without which the soul is
an orphan and an outcast in the world.
o Lord. bless the institution of learning
under whose auspices we assemble hele
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inspiration does it give TO the individual
mind of America?
We cannot assert this in the same
sense in which we say there is Greek
mind, the birth, the growth and decay
of which we take in at one grasp; nor
III the same sense in which we say
there is an English mind. full grown
and thoroughly organized in literature,
manners and institutions. All we can
say is that through two centuries the
thoughts, characters and actions of the
Plymouth Puritan and Virginia Cave
licr have been fused into Il mass of
national thought, character and life,
and that this national life has sulli-
cIent strength TO receive, without
radical change, the foreign element
necessarily pouring into it, and to
assimilatc for Its own uses into the
comprehensive national mind. The
Cclt, the German, the Enelishman, the
Italian, can remain here only by part
ing with his national individuality,
accepting the influences which sur
round him and adding TO the mass o:
American life. But while these inllu-
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ment. lie is not only ut war with his
Creator. but the trauSgrcssion of the
divine law has gotten him 10 dcpravity.
Hence. the first thing toward an educa-
ton under Gods Law is that the man
shall recognize himself aS Il sinner, thai
the man shall come, before lar under
takes To hrgin anything on the trunda-
tion outlined. and adjust his relation
ship to God. BE AT peace with God
with the assurance that only 10y making
such peace can God come Ia Nou in any
way. / would undertake to affirm, and
| would emphasizes ii with all the
power with which God can endow me,
that there is no basis sufficiently broad
on which 10 bniid an education. the
results of which are to he reached by
trial. except as laid 10y the law of God.
Other foundation can no man lay than
that which is laid Education doesn'
simply consist in the handling of books,
attending upon all the lectures of the
professor, sc. This education | say,
beginning here and having for its iinality
the eternal hereafter, can only be based
upon Il foundation that the law of God
laws. So insist that as an educator or
;ls Il means OF edcuCation employed by
the rule of our being. the perfect law of
God furnishes the only foundation.
But touching that second element in
education. the curriculum. We some
education. and we hear thcm say some
times, we cannot patroni2e religious
scnnnls because they are too narrow"
but no man except one with the narrow
mindrdncss of the knave or Ignorance
of IL fool, will ever make such Il state
ment as that The law of God furnishes
the only perfect curriculum. the only
one that covers the original want, the
only one that covers all human relation
ships, the only one that Compasses all
human interests and all human destiny.
There Is no proper education in the
world except under the auspices of the
holy spirit.
As God has given the Bible the text
book, so he has given Il revealer. Not
only does this curriculum furnish the
only text book, but it also indicates to
us the order of teaching and the mighty
range of truth embraced in the teaching,
There is something to be unlearned be-
fore we can learn anything correctly.
As was Just now indicated. man must
learn first his relation to God and go TO
work to adjust that relationship to God.
So long as man fails to adjust himself to
that relationship he is unfit to fill any
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poets-Dana, Emerson, Bryant, Long
fellow-avOid the passions and thought,
of American human nature, although
they may represent the woods and
streams of American physical nature.
Perhaps in our politics may be found
the fairest and least ilattering expires
sion of the entire national life, for ouI
politics will certainly compare favora-
bly, with those of Greece and Rome,
with France and England, in respect
either to intelligence or morality.
every powerful national mind are
resistance, persistence and impressI-
bility. Each of these three elements
, were represented by Webster, Clay
and Calhoun, three of America s
greatest statesmen.
1t now remains to ask how the mind
of America, with its powers generally
directed by its sentiments to commerce,
law and politics, appears when tested
by those virtues, which are the con-
ditions of nations durable strength?
In every social system there will be
individuals and small classes repre-
senting the vice of every grade of
civilization which history or tradition
has recorded: in viewing a nation we
must fasten on the strongest element
and on average humanity. Viewed
from this liberal point American life
can stand comparatively high in the
| tests of prudence. moderation and
benevolence; little less confidently
perhaps in those of veracity, stead
fastness and business, and considerably
less in beauty, heroIsm and self
devotion.
But it is not so much in the present
rs in the future that we have the
grandest vision of the American mind
We have seen that its organic sub
stance is solid and practical, and as
it is a sleepless energy we may hope
that it will fuse into itself the best life
of other national minds, without
having its individuality overwhelmed,
so that Greece might in its multiform
nature recognize beauty, Rome will,
Germany earnestness, Italy art, France
vivacity, Ireland impulse and England
tenaclty. 1t is in this contemplation
of America as a cOnquering mind that
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who are fusIng into their own charac-
ter and that of the nation loftier
ideas and more liberal tastes. On
churches, institutions and societies
established for moral and benevolent
ends, are connected with the national
mind, and at the same time are in
spired by influences apart from it.
Our theology is closer to the public
mind, both to act and to be acted upon,
than our literature. Indeed if we take
the representative mind of those classes
whose productions, ethical, poetical
and artistical, we call American litera-
ature and art, we shall find that the
national life Is not as much their
inspiration rs it is the object they
would inspire. If you observe the
long line of English poets-Chaucer
Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton, Pope,
Byron-you will find that, however
exalted their rank, they all rest on the
solid base of English character; they
idealize, realize or satarize English
mode of thought, English life and
English men-all full in short of
English blood. But our most eminent