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SALVATION PRI X Though.tfu.1 Sern Rev. 33. 3?. Roberts The pulpit of tfetcv and ( the Citadel Square Baptist Church was filled yesterday m ruing by the Rev. B. P. Itobertson, t,f tJaffuey, S. C, who preached a ni?iig aud interesting sermon on the abject, "The Trained Disciple at work, or the Child of God Working Out his Salvation." Mr. Robertson t >ok as his text Philippians, 2:12: Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence 0Hly but now much more in my ab sence, work out your own salvation with tear and trembling," and spoko as follows: My friends, the great topio of study iu Heaven is life. Tho angels have searched to find out the mystery of life in Jesus and all errands to this earth have been in the interest of life, aud even the most important topic that has so far as we know oooupied the mind of God has been life. For it was God who so loved mankind that lie gave His only begotten Son that the human race might have life. Now, it seems to me that if life is of so great importance to the inhabi tants of Heaven, surely it ought to absorb our attention when it all con cerns us. If all the Heavens are in terested in our lives, surely we will give the subject our prayerful and most earnest attention, and I am hap py to note that most all the great minds of earth in past history have concentrated their thoughts on this topic. I might mention the names of Moses, Socrates, Luther and Spencer. I rejoice that I have been enabled to see the day when science and the Bible are conceded to be the warmest friends. To-day the scientific method of investigating truth is being applied to the study of the Holy Scriptures. We can never honor the name of Henry Drummond and John Stewart Mills and Herbert Spencer enough for this grand achievement for the benefit of the human family, and now science bas b come the strongest ally of the Christian religion. But with all the works of science it is impossible, as we saw in my first sermon, for man to clearly understand what kind of a man he ought to be. While life in nature and tho divine revelations in the Scriptures tell us much about the Divine life for man, yet not until he beholds Jesus Christ through the oyo of faith does he un derstand what sort of person he ought to be. Then, by experience, does he realize that Christ is the life, the truth that reveals that life and the way to that life for h?m And while nature about him em phasizes the truth that man needs special nourishment and training for the fulfillment of the Divine plan for him, yet ho cannot possibly under stand the real meaning of this until he studies the real life of Jesus on earth and lives in His very presenoa day by day, by means of the Holy Spirit, who dwells within him. Jesus himself spent thirty years in special training for the accomplishment of His mission in the world. How much mere does the Christian need the school of disoipleship? This I em phasized in my second message. This morning I desire to call your attention to the thought of the child of God working out his salvation in this life. The text which I have chosen has been very much abused as to its meaning. I am sure it contains one of the most important doctrines for God's people in their relation to the world when correctly interpreted. The first thought to which I invite your attention is: This So ri pi uro docs not teach that works will produce sal vation, and the second is: This Scrip ture does teaoh that salvation will produce works. , 1. This Scripturo does not teaoh that works will-produce salvation. The connection in which this Scrip ture is found proves this. For the apostle is writing this letter to the Philippian Christians and^exhorting them to work out their salvation. These Philippians are supposed to al ready possess life; they are already saved; then why would Paul exhort them to seek that which they already possess? Then tho general teaching of th? Bible concerning salvation is tha*. works cannot secure salvation for any ?nc. Paul in another place says that salvation is not by works, lest any man should boast. In tho verse fol lowing the text ho says that it is "God that work?tfc in us both to will and to d*> of His good pleasure," suggesting the idea that salvation is from God. Theo again there Would have been no necessity for Jesu* oottiog into the world and dying for xx?. if salvation could havo been secured through tho *orks of cash individual? It seems -at the mc/i among tho Jer?s when 3DUCES WORKS. ion Delivered by tne on, of Gaffney, S. O. Jourier, J7th, ' Jesus was ou earth who were fullest of good works were looked upon by Jesus himself as dead in trespasses and in sins, and how cun the dead produce good works and through these secure life? Impossible. Then we arc taught by the scientists that true evolution from a lower to a higher state of existence is impossible without help from a higher creation or being. Plaoe water in a vessel and apply the optic test and there will spring up no life in that water. So there can never be generated in man a heavenly lifo without the presence of the Heavenly parent in that man. The Heavenly life in man must come from the Heavenly life, which is Christ. Soience teaches the impossi bility of good works producing it. Then people whose lives bear moral fruits when there is no divine life within them are religious parasites. The mistletoe on the oak appears to have life in itself, but cut down the oak and where is the life of this para site? So take the so-oalled moral peo ple and remove all traces of the reli gions of the true God from them, and they will be the very image of Satan himself. Their morality is a kind of respectability which they have bor rowed from tho people of God. A friend of mine visited the Art Museum in London a few years ago. As he passed into one room he saw a lady lying on a couch, breathing as if she was then dying. My friend was alarmed and oalled for help. But the watchman reminded him that it was nothing but a wax figure with artificial breathing. So it is with onr moral re spectable people; there is no real life in them. And at the last day they will realize that their superficial and artificial morality has done them no good. It will not produce life. This truth, which is substantiated by science, Scripture and the Christ,' places all the heathen among the dead ones of earth. Their religions, so called, are only human creeds, more or less, and manifest human efforts to produce life in themselves by means of so-called good works. Thohcathe a religions are what we would term to day codes of ethics, which expross the ethical teachings of the adherents. Some of them, which give any empha sis to life hereafter, are simply efforts to produce life through good works. And as it is impossible to do this, then all the heathen will miss the at tainment of the divine life for man. 2. But this Scripture does not teach that salvation will produce works. The fact that we have some mem bers in our churches who do not live respectable and useful lives is no ar gument against this statement. These people resemble- very mnoh the hermit crab, which in life crawls into the shell of a molusk and there spends its time seeking the protection of an other's house. So these church mem bers who have no lifo in them seek shelter from the day of visitation within tho church. But this will be of no avail to them in the trying hour. Activity is a universal Lw of life. If we take the large telescope and look at the heavens wo behold activi ty, and if we take the microscope and look at the small atoms we behold activity. The whole universe is alive, from the smallest to the greatest part of it. The 'flowers of the field, the trees of the forest, the birds of the air, the fish of ..the sea, with all these activity is tho sign of life. Life in these will cause them to be in motion, fulfilling their destiny. So it is with the person, v. uo has re ceived the divine life [tram Jesus Christ. Just aa the dead leaves on the oak will begin to drop off just as soon as new life in the spring begins to course through its fibre, so the sins and evil habits will begin to disappear from the man who has obtained life in Jesus Christ just as soon as this new life begins to spring up in him. You can tel! that this man has new life by the activity in shedding the old dead leaves of sin. Jesus saves his people from thoir sins. Why doer a man oome to Jesus for the new life if he prefers the sinful lifo to the Christ life? The fu==*sst ?h;sg ??.u?r Hea ven is a man claiming to be a Chris tian and still serving-tho-devil. The person who has the divine life Within him will bring forth fruit to the glory of God. Just as tho tree will bend and blossom and produce fruit,, so the child of God will work out his salvation by producing in his life the fruits of lovo, joy, peace, temperance, kindness, meekness, gentleness, and long suffering and suoh liko. And these fruits will establish him in the confidence of the public, so that when he presents Christ to then; m the Gos pel they will accept the message. It is the plan of God to. evangelize the world through His own children. He could have done this through the angels, but lie chose rather to houor His own children with this work. And by doing this work, with all its accessories, the child of God is to work out his salvation, and this Gos pel work is more a privilege than a duty for the ohild of our Father. I wish we could realize this mere than we do. By doing this work we de velop our Christian characters and become prepared for our eternal ser vice in our Father's house above. It seems to me that the very fact that it is our Father's will that we sh- aid produce good works in preach ing the Gospel to the poor dying is enough to induce us to gladly do it. But if we will remember that the world ia lost without God and without hope iu the world, we surely will tell them of Jesus. Wo should preserve the perishing. A young lady prayed as soon as she was converted to be carried to Heaven. That night ihe dreamed that she went to Heaven. As soon as she arrived the door-keeper carried her iuto the crown chamber. He showed her Paul's crown, covered with stars; then Spurgeon's orown, and finally came to a crown with no star in it. She asked whose it was, and she was answered that it was hers. Then she says: "Let mc go back a \ win some souls to Christ, so that I may bave some stars in my crown." My friends, will there be any stars in your crown? A Sensible Woman. A party of married men were talk ing about their wives, and it is wor thy of note that every man was glad he had a wife, and was anxious to tell of her good points. "I never heard my wife swear but once," said one of them, when there seemed to be a lull in the praise-mc?t ing. All the others looked shocked. If any of them had ever heard their wives swear they were not telling it, und they resented the frankness of the one man who was apparently betray - ing family secrets. But the man did not regard the bad impression he had created. "And that," he continued, in the same tone, "was away back yonder, thirty years or more ago, when the oil excitement in Pennsylvania agitated the whole country. I owned a farm which cost a thousand dollars, not be cause it was worth that much, but be cause I had taken it for a debt of that amount which I could not collect. My business was very small then, and a thousand dollars represented the bulk of my capital. I had been married five years, and my wife was the very best investment I had ever made. 000 day I received word that oil had been struck on the farm adjoining mine, and right away I proceeded to go crazy, just as everybody else did when oil showed up anywhere in their neighborhood. My wife showed signs; too, but she kept her wits about her. Inside of a week I began to get offers for my farm, and I got crazier every time there came an offer higher, thin the one before it. It went up like a balloon at first, until tho figures got away up, and then the smaller bidders dropped out. At last an offer of a Hundred thousand dollars came from the representative of a company that" 1 knew was worth two or three mil lions." " 'Let it go, John,' said my. wife, when I told her of this offer. " 'I guess not,' said I; 'if it's worth a hundred thousand to them, it'sworth a hundred thousand to me.' '"I tell you to let it go,' said mj wife, as firm as a post in the ground. " ' Not much,' said I. Til get two hundred thousand.' "She palled down her apron with a jerk, a peculiarity of Hers when she meant business. - - " 'You're getting a hundred times more for it than you gave,' said she, 'and you never expected to make a hundred thousand dollars in a hun dred thousand years, and ycu know it.' " 'But I'll make a good deal more than that'now,' I insisted, and started baok to my desk to write a letter de clining the offer. S "She pulled down her apron with a jerk that made the strings eraek. " 'John Martin,' said she, 'don't be d?fooir "And I wasn't," eoooluded the nar rator, "for I aooepted the hundred thousand dollar offer, and it was nine ty thousand more than the company ever got off the farm, for the oil didn't seem to ran that way."?Xew Lippin cott. _ Large-sun spots, astronomers say, caused the uxirema heai this summer, and doctors declare nearly all the pros trations were induced by disorders of the. stomach. Good health follows good digestion. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure; digests what you eat. If you have indigestion or dyspepsia it will quickly relieve and permanently cure you. Evans* Pharmacy. ? Pekin, China, is surrounded by a wall 50 feet high and 40 feet thick. The walled portion of the city is 16 miles in circumference, and the wall itself if between 500 and 1,000 years old. You can spell it eongh, ooff, oaogh, kauf, kaff, kough or kaugh, the reme dy to quickly cure it is One Minute Cough Care. Evans' Pharmacy. Carelessness With Money. Tho Secretary of the Treasury has i very large directory of oarcles? people ?of people who have money to burn or otherwise destroy, and who appeal to him for reimbursements. Uncle Sam is kind enough to restore lost money when he is satisfied that it is actually out of existence, and the treasury department has to look after this branch of his financial affairs. Hardly a day passes that tho Secretary is not appealed to make good money destroyed, and he often receives rem uants of bills more or less recogniza ble, with queer tales of how the work of destruction was wrought. One el the latest applications was from a Vermont farmer, who sent a mass of remnants of bills that ap proached the condition of pulp aud asked for $180 in return, which, after some delay, he received. Ho said he had very carofully hidden the money under tho rafters of his barn, and somehow it had got into the hay and bran fed to one of his cows. The cow was chewing the green feed when us nature was discovered. Another farmer from Kansas has sent a lot of chopped bills that he says represents $40. According to his story they were in the pocket of a vest that was hung on a feed cutter, and when it was being operated the corner of the vest that held the money got between its knives, and, with the money, was torn in shreds. The claim is now in process of adjustment. A Boston man took from his pocket what, he says, he thought was a piece of paper and burned half of it in light ing the gas. The gaslight revealed the face that he had used a $20 bill as a lighter. A Washington man a couple of weeks ago went in person to the Sec retary to get $35 for some badly mu tilated bills that his playful pup had been exercising with for an hour. A Wisoonsin woman has sent a lot of tinder that, she says, was once $90. Several months ago she hid it in a stovepipe hole, into which a pipe from a laundry fire was recently placed. As the pipe rested on the bills tinder was the result. Another woman, this time in Indian apolis, got $10 in greenbacks mixed with greens she was preparing for din ner and boiled them into an almost unrecognizable mass. A loving Philadelphia papa has asked $20 for a few strips of greenish paper and a score of pellets of the same material. He says they once constituted a twenty-dollar bill, which hiB pet boy had toru to pieces, rolled into balls and blowu through a glass tube at a cat, canary bird and nurse maid. An Ohio man wants to sell tho treasury department a mouse for $100. He says he had that amount in bills in a bureau drawer, and that the mice appropriated it in bits to build a home in which to rear their family. This list is continually growing, and the communications giving tin remarkable details are so frequent a ? to cause no smile or comment in tho department. Each one is simply x new case that follows along a line of red tape until it is adjusted. 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It fa especially to be recommer lent, ob ft acts by combining with the caus< well by its germioldal action lo destroying development of gases which give rise to fa does not simply supply an odor to mask cause and removes it. In my opinion, Its tarion in his laudable endeavor to obook dl nfloencee of the omnipresent microbe. CHL0R0-NAPTHCLEUM heals beaet It is invaluable for the treat me chicken cholera, as a sheen dip and ani struetion of bed-bugs, cock-roaches an kinds of insects which infest vegetatioi EVANS PH Not the Conventional Woman. 'But I don't know you, madam," the bank cashier said to the woman who had presented a check. But this woman, instead of saying haughtily, "I do not wish your ac quaintance, sir!" merely replied, with an engaging smile: "Oh, yes, you do, I think. ?l'ai the 'redheadod old virago' next door to you, whose 'scouudrolly little boys' are always reaching through the fence and picking your flowers. When you started down town this morning your wife said: 'Now, Henry, if you want a dinner fit to cat this evening, you'll have to leavo me a little money. I can't run this house on the city water and 10 cents a day "Here's your money, madam," said the cashier, pushing it toward her and coughing loudly. ? Together they were looking over the paper. "Oh, how fuuny," said she. "What is it?" he asked. "Why here is au advertisement that says, 'No reasonable offers refused.' " "What's so odd about that?" "Noth ing, nothiug," she replied, trying to blush, "only those are my senti ments." Have you a sense of tullncss in the region of your stomach after eating ? If so you will be benefited by using Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Ta blets. They also cure belching and tour stomach. They regulate tho bow els, too. Price, 25c. Sold by Hill Orr Drug Co. ? Massachusetts has prohibited tho use of the United States flag for ad vertising purposes. The flag-makers will feel the blow, but the people will commend the law, and hope to see other States adopt it. The most dainty and effective pills made are De Witt'b Little Early Risers. They are unequalled for liver and bow el troubles. Evans' Pharmacy. ? "Do you Buppose she rejected you because you were not rich enough?' ' "Well, she gave me to understand that I was a man of no interest and uot much principle." When you want a pleasant physic try the new remedy. Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets. They are easy to take and pleasant in effect. Price, 25c. Samples free at Hill- Orr Drug Co's. store. A. H. DACNALL, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Andci'Non, S. C OFFICE-OVER THE P03T OFFICE. Pendleton Graded School. Session 1900-1901 begins Sept. 17th CHILDREN of other Districts admit ted on payment of small tuition too. Your patronage- is invited. For informa tion as to rates, etc.. apply to or write? A. G. HOLMES, Prio. Pendleton, 8. (.'., Sep_tL5, 1?mK>_ 11?4 LAND SALE. 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