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The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-08

munity. Other churches have been known as the churches of the aristocra- cy. But though John Wesley had as much brain as any man of his generation, and though by political preferment he could have reached a position of influ- ence in aristocratic society, yet he chose 10 cast his lot among the common people. He did not believe there was was one gospel for the rich and another for the poor-one for the brainy man and another for him of small mental calibre John Wesley believed all classes should meet as one at the throne of grace. Therefore, as the common people crowded around him to receive his message, many of the rich and the affluent stayed away. He was truly the missionary to the middle and lower classes Are we in church work ready to reach out In Christs name for the conversion of the same kind of people?
 It was said of our Lord that "the com mon people heard Him gladly" Ah that Is the best encomium that can be placed upon the tomb of the founder of Method isml When Peter Cartwright, many years ago, arose to preach in Tennessee, some one whispered to him, General Jackson is in your audience' With that Peter Cartwright turned and said: '.I hear that General Jackson is in this dience. But I want to say to General Jackson that I have no gospel for him any different from that which l offer to every man" Then In a voice of thun- der, Cartwright cried: Except ye pent, ye shall all likewise perish, Gen eral Jackson, that message Is for you. Poor man, that message Is for you" So, today, John Wesley, in his old pulpit, like Peter Cartwright in vision, is stretching out his arms over the whole sinful world crying: Repent Repent. Repent" And at the same time he Is call ing: come to the mercy seat Come! Comer'
 God bless John WesIey's memory God bless all Methodsts and Methodismi Del- egates to the general conference of 1904. In Christs name we bid you welcome. Aye. we opeh our hearts and greet you with 1000 Christian salutations. May you always love us in the spirit with which we greet you on this Sabbath day.
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Repent. Repent! Repent!

Lastly, Methodism has had it's mar velous and miraculous multiplying power because it has had an infinite field in which to labor. It has worked for the most part among the common people. Certain churches in this world have been known as churches of class. Some churches have been known as churches which appealed to the greatest amount of brains ss elmost every Christian com
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-08
The "Class System.v

We see the value of individual respon- sibility in the temporal world. Why should we not see the same results from the "class system of Methodism? Your boy is about sixteen years of age. Where are you going to send the lad to college? We'll" you say |" would like in many ways to send him to one of our great universities but the trouble Is l am afraid There the boy will only be lost among a crowd of hundreds of other students, and no one will be individuality responsible for the lad. l think shall send him to one of our smaller colleges. where he will come in close contact with his teachers. and these teachers will be able to keep their eye upon him.. You send your boy to a small college to secure the individual touch of a pro lessor upon the boy. Think not,' said President Harper only short time ago. that the university of Chicago is in any sense the rival of the small college. Their is not a professor upon our faculty who would be so foolish as to advocate the idea that young boys of sixteen should be turned loose in this great sin full city with no one to be indlVlduahy responsible for them. Chicago uiiIVeisi- ty is distnctvely a postgraduate hls'i'u. tion We have our collegiate department for the sons and daughters of those par ents living in town, and not TOT tnose whose homes are in the far distance;
 Now, the class system" of hethoaiSli has a double purpose-first, 1t makes the
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Birth of Methodism.

What were the conditions of the nation at the time of the birth of the Methodist church? Did she come into the world as a protest to the sins of a corrupt En- glish court? Oh, yes In no time Of English history have bribery and de- bauchery run more riot than during Rob- ert Wa1poles occupancy of the English premiership He was the author of the famous and hateful sentence in reference to the house of commons, "All these men have their price" What Robert Wal pole in statecraft could not win by fair means he won by foul. But Methodism came into the world to do a greater work than merely to protest against govern mental depravity. It came. Josiah Strong has said, as a protest against an established church, which believed at that time more in outward ceremonies than in spiritual truths. Isaac Taylor" so records the author of 'The Next Great Awakening" "calls the church of this period a fair carcass, and Black stone says he went to hear every preach of note in London and that there was not one whose discourse indicated wheth- CT he was a follower of Confucius or Mo- hammed or of Christ. The Established church of that time believed in carry ing the phylacteries upon the forehead, but not in practicing Christ's spiritual lessons in the life. It was so given over to Journalism and rites and ceremonies that it had no warning to give even to men in its pulpits who, like the Pharisees of old, were whited sepulchers, fair to the eye, but within harboring decaying corpses and whose private lives were a repusive stench. "It is the inward wit ness, son. the inward witness" spake the dying father Samuel Wesley. to his son John-"this is the strongest proof of Christianity" So John Wesley and his followers resolute1y set their faces against the prevalent sins of that day They vehemently declared that the Christian church should not only have a pure creed. but that it's members should be men of pure private lives Tn the high spiritual standard set before the individual church members we find the chief cause of the marvellous development of the Methodist church.
 No Compromise With Sin.
 My brother. it is of vital importance that all Protestant churches realize that they are making a fatal error when they in any way compromise their high spiri- tual standards by alliance with sin The higher the standard of the Christian church the greater will be it's success. We do not need today churches that honor winebibbing ministers. We do not need churches which, when they have a church sociable. tell their young people they may dance and play cards. We do not desire churches whose members in
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1904-12-23


A tabulated statement made by
Rev. w. I. Dale in The Cumber.
land Banner on the question of
union of Cumberland Presbyterian
and Northern Presbyterian church
es shows with all the presbyterles
voting up.to date the popular vote
against the union. The exhibit
represents 81 Presbyteries voting
for union having 462 ministers,
GAP churches, 2,481 elders, and
50,556 members and p Presbyte
ries voting against the union hav-
ing 396 ministers, 1914 churches,
3,119 elders and 52,27S members.
The editor adds four Presbyteries
voting mo- not included in DR..
Dale's table and one that tied.
This shows the defeat Of the union
plan SO far as the vote has been
taken and probably the settlement
of that question.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1904-12-23

racy and for that reason has no
claim to the Democratic caucus.
We believe further that prece-
dent made in allowing Independ-
ents to participate in the councils
of the party will eventually de-
moralize the party in the State.
The Commercial has as much re
spect for the opinions Of those
who oppose as as any newspaper
could have, but has no apologies
nor com promises to make relative
to its course. We undertook to
run a Democratic paper, and would
have opposed any other man in
the county, makes no difference
who he is, if he adopted the same
tactics the Representative elect
from this county did.
The vote in the November cleo
ton clearly shows that Fry re-
ceived a majority Of the Demo-
cratic votes. He was defeated by
a majority of AZ votes. The Re.
publicans polled over seven hun
dred votes and any man who will
admit the truth knows that the
bulk of these were cast against
Fry. Why? Because Tate was
pulled off by the Republicans in
the interest of Mcdowell. We
admit, it is true that at Rives,
Woodland Mills and at Union City
some Of the colored vote was cast
for Fry, but this vote altogether
would not amount to an hundred.
So, we have practically the
unique positionlin Obion County of
having both the Democratic and
Republican parties under the con-
troll of the Republican boss.
And then that the man put for
ward by this combination to de-
feat the regular Democratic nomi-
nee should be admitted to Dem
ocratic caucus is beyond our con-
ception Of anything conservative
or fair. 1t is simply to our mind
a sample Of ''ingrowing nerve"
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1904-12-23
Watch the Label.

If you are a subscriber to The
Commercial your name is printed
on little yellow label On this
label IS printed the date to which
your subscription is paid Look it
up and if you owe the paper any
thing we want it. The amount may
be small, but several hundred small
accounts mean great deal to us.
The Commercial appreciates your
patronage, but if you will attend to
this matter to-day the favor will be
donbly appreciated.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1904-12-23
Coughing Spell CEASED Death,

Harry Duckwell, aged rs years
choked to death early yesterday morn
ing at his home, in the presence 81
his wife and child. He contracted q
slight cold a few days ago and paio
but little attention to it. YESTERDAY
morning he was seized with a fit Of
coughing which continued for some
time. His wife sent for a physician
but before he could arrive, another
coughing spell came on and Duckwell
died from suffocation. st. Louis
Globe Democrat, Dec. |, 1901. Bal
lard's Horehound Syrup would have
saved him. 25c, SOC and 81 at Martin.
Allen Drug Co, Mailing corner.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1904-12-23

Thomas Lawson says the watered
securities must go and that he Is
the man behind the gun. He sent
Amalgamated Copper from the
eighties down to sixty or therea-
bouts and proposes even greater
things if the public will stay with
him. He says that his ammuni-
ton is simply publicity and that is
all he needs. There are billions
of common stocks which have
nothing whatever but market
value. They are represented by
nothing whatever except name.
These are under Mr.. Lawson's ban
and he proposes to wipe them off
the face of speculation. He pro-
poses to hammer the padded pre-
ferred stocks also to a proper ba-
sis of exchange. The man has
"blood in his eye" and it looks
like there is something in it.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1904-12-23

o. L. Weaks, who has charge
of the Chapel Hill school in Mum
Der Sixteen, announces n the
press this week as a candidate for
County Superintendent of Public
instruction for Obion County.
Mr.. Weaks has some very strong
claims to present to the attention
Of the County &ourI i in behalf of
his candidacy Thdse things are
embraced in hise.bllity to conduct
a school and train the pupils. He
is thoroughly reliable, exceedingly
Industrious and very successful in
his work. Mr.. Weaks has been a
candidate for some time and these
things are what values as con
sideration.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1904-12-23
DEMOCRATS DID NOT VOTE

The official vote of the late Presi
Dental election has not yet beer
fully announced, but it is practi
cally complete in a table recently
published by the New York Times
the few omissions having beer
supplied by special arrangement
of that paper with local CORE.
spondents who had access to the
unreported returns.
We will not at this time attempt
an analysis of the vote by States
in comparison with the vote in
1896 and 1900, but such an analy-
sis will be surprising in its revela-
ton of the large number of Dem
ocrats who did not vote at the last
national election. That such was
the case is abstractly apparent
enough when it is shown that
nearly half million less votes
were polIed last November than in
1900, with the population increase
of the country entirely normal
during the four years interval.
In 1900 Mckinley polled 1901
923 votes. Last November Roose-
welt polled but 1910, 561 votes, a
difference OF only 432,63S, which
can be taken as quite the normal
increase to be expected from the
increase 10 population. The Dem
ocratic popular vote in 1900 was
6, 1853, 1873, and last November it
fell to 5,094,09 1t is plain
Roosevelt did not add the shrink
age, or any material part of it, to
his vote. The Parker vote fell off
! ,264,042 from the Democratic
popular vote of 1900, and 1,408,-
300 from the vote of four years
Roosevelt owes his re-
markable plurality to this unusual
Democratic shrinkage. and the
shrinkage is explainable solely by
The fact that hundreds of thou
sands of Democrats scattered
throughout the union did not 90 to
he polls at all.
Viewed, therefore, in the light
If cold statistical analysis, Roose-
telt received no unusual endorse
nent of his administration in the
'ecent election. As matter of
act, he merely kept the normal
Republican vote of the country in
inc, and his big pluralities in the
States he carried are to be account
ID for by the failure of a large
Der cent of the Democrats to vote.
No third party weakened the
Democratic voting strength this
rear in an appreciate degree.
The Populists made sorry show
ng, it must be admitted. A mil
ion or more Democrats refrained |
rom voting. That's all. Atlanta
Constitution.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1904-12-23

Ex-Gov. Robt. L. Taylor has
announced his intention to move to
Nashville and start his magazine.
This magazine has been talked
about great deal, but until now
the popular Tennessean has not
seen fit to give any definite infor
nation as to his plans. He says
he proposes to print magazine
which will inspire the reader with
thoughts of sunshine and joy; that
the fellow who reads his magazine
will feel like singing "There is
Sunshine in My Soul To day."
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1904-12-23
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The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1904-12-23
Estrav Notice

Taken up and posted in District No,
10, Obion County, Tenn, by A e.
Ratlitf, one strawberry gray mare,
about seven or eight years old, with Fl
branded on left hip, supposed to be
Texas brand, valued at $500.
THos. r. BARRETT, Ranger.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1904-12-23
Estray Notice.

Taken up and posted ia District No.
4, Obion County, Tenn, by J. o. Hou-
ser, one dark bay mare mule, Is hands
high, about Is or 20 years old, dim
brand, can't make 1t out, valued her
at $1,000,
THos. r. BARRETT, Ranger.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1904-12-23
THE COMMERCIAL CORRECTED

THE COMMERCIAL CORRECTED.
The Commercial acknowledges
its error in quoting statement
that two Independents were adj
mitted to the Democratic caucus
of the last Legislature. The Nash
vile News says that our course of
reasoning was faulty and the point
made by the News is correct. A..
r. Harlin, of the Fourteenth Flo
terial District, and L. w. Hamil-
ton, Representative proper from
Upton, were the only lndepend-
ents in the last Legislature and we
understand they we're refused adj
mission to the caucus. That is
true. But there is not enough
practical philosophy to be gained
from this error to shake as from
our position -thatthe Independents
have no claim on Democratic
caucus. OF course the Independ-
ents in a number of cases will
claim that the organization resort
ep to questionable methods in
making nominations. We do not
propose undertaking the job of
covering up all the faults made by
political organizations. We know
full well the high handed methods
which are sometimes used. But
this does not argue that Independ-
ents are justified in indiscriminate
and questionable expedients to
defeat the action of the regular
party organization. Zone wrong
does not right another, and espe-
cially is the last wrong without
excuse when it is more odious or
tlagrant than the first. In this
county, for instance, the Demo
cratic county convention was held
on the first Monday in May and
candidate named for the Legisla-
ture. The executive committee,
as had been the custom, acquiesced
without formally confirming the
nomination. In the following Au
gust, however, at the regular cleo.
ton, a new committee was elected
which opposed the nominee Of the
May convention, and they met and
declared another man to Be the
Democratic nominee for the Leg
islature from Obion County. Both
these men were candidates before
the May convention. AS a matter
of fact, the committee elected in
August had no authority under the
sun to say who was the nominee of
the May convention. The preced-
ing committee was alone vested by
custom and precedent with that
power.
Now, the only serious objections
offered to the May convention
were-in the first place standing
vote was refused 10 the Thirteenth
Civil District convention which
selected delegates to the county
convention and, second, in the
convention proper the chair re.
fused an appeal on the question of
basis of representation. We leave
it to any unprecedented Democrat
to indicate the gravest error COM
mitted in this county in selecting a
for the Legislature.
The whole matter can be rested
with the fact that the contention
ia this coonty was limited alto
gether to the action of the Fourth
and Thirteenth Civil Districts, and +,
both these districts, which are Z
overwhelmingly Democratic. gave :
large majorities to the nominee of J
the May convention, or the regu I
lar nominee, Mr.. Fry. Hence we
assert that the Representative from q
0bion County is non the nominee
If the regularly organized Democ-
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