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I'11 =? = PROTECTS THE POLICY HOLDERS OF THE SOUTHERN LIFE Tito Jefferson Standard Life Xmrar4Cco Company Comes to Their lescue. layetteville, N. C., March 31, 1909. Tocny was consummated one of the uiua imponani aoais that has ever i I oci^trred in the annals of Southern inauraicc. The Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Company of Raleigh, , H C' came to the rescue of the policy I, B holders of the Southern Life Insurance Company of Fayetteville, and gtiannteed to them that their insurance wild he protected by the large H . the Jefferson. It has been knovt: }or some time that the Southern would re-insure its policies, sm ttT flittering offors were made by H fa- ' tames throughout the eounbttia this business, but the direct,.; cf the company, looking to B the int* si of the policy holders, and t k1 mr th? strength and standing of ft ?n< T < v <01, selected it, after mature i. tiig this rc-insurflnce and protecting 'he policy holders, the Jefferson Shndard Life Insurance is in no way drectly or indirectly connected with any transaction of the Southern Life. The policy holders of the Southern Life Insurance Company are to ie congratulated upon their good fortune in having their life insurance potcies guaranteed bv the Jefferson, whi-h is one of the strongest, I if not the strongest life insurance company souti of the Mason and Dixon Line, aid one of the strongest in America. It has a surplus to policy holders of nearly half a million dollars. It is w->ll managed, conserva- I uve. and is ba-lted by some of the most prominent financiers in the South. The offices of the Jefferson are Joseph G. Brown, president; P. D. Gold. Jr.. irst vice-president and general manner; ("has. W. Gold, secretary and superintendent of agencies; Chas. V. Gamwell, actuary; Ex-Governor Chas. B. Avcock and Judge R. W. Winston were special counsel for the Jefferson in making the transfer of the business. The reinsurance agreement was fully approved by James R. Young. Insurance Commissioner of Nortli Carolina. THE WATCHDOG. The statesman waars a look moat wise; "We must," he cries, "economize!'" He placidly admits a few Appropriations should go through For sums that seem amazing great To benefit his own dear State. f But when his millions ho has gained He wears a look exceeding pained That some bird working clerk should seek A rnisn of fivo ?? * ? -??? "tu ui LCU jatt Or that some town, outside the fence That bounds his sway, should make pretense With an ambition strangely rash. To anything that looks like cash. No wonder that he seems so wise Whene'er he cries "Economize!" ?Washington Star. Wise Sayings. Drink deep or taste not the pierian spring. A kindness done to the good is never losl. All is lost that is poured into a riven dish. Associate with the lame and you will learn to limp. Lot it be a rule of the store that nothing slut 11 go to \vaste. It is hard to keep up appearances and save up money simultaneously. A woman is never so homely but you may truthfully compliment her. Think right if you would walk right. So. 15- '09. Turn failure in victory; Don't let your courage fade; . And if you get a lemon Just make a lemonade. \ SISTER'S TRICK Cut it all Came out Right. How a sister played a trick that brought rosy health to r. coffee fiend is an Interesting tale; "I was a coffee fiend?a trembling, nervous, physical wreck, yet clinging to the poison that stole away my strength. 1 mocked at Poslum and would have none of It. "One day my sister substituted a cup of piping hot Postum for my morning cap of coffee but did not tell me U was. I noticed the richness of id remarked that the coffee tas me, but my sister did not tell iii" \ is drinking Po3tum for fear I tv..r iot take any more. kept the secret and kept givfru i Postum Instead of coffee / grew stronger, more tireless, 8 gri* tter color In my sallow cheeks :<n>' learness to my eyes, then sho told of the health-giving, nerver?* ? ? enlng life-saver she had given tue In place of my mornl t coffee. From that time I became a disciple of Postum and no words can do Justice In telling the good this cereal drink did me. I will not try to tell It, for only after having used It can one be convinced of l'a merits.*' Ten days' trial shows Postum'a power to rebuild what coffee has destroyed. "There's a Reason." Look In pkgs. for the famous little book, "The Road to WellTille." Brer read the aboTe letter? A new one appears from time to time. They are genuine, true, and full ?f human THE PULPIT.' K SCHOLARLY SUNDAY SERMON BV DEAN HODGES. Theme: Defense of the Faith. Brooklyn, N. Y.?Sunday evening at Holy Trinity P. E. Church. th< Very Rev. George Hodges, dean of th< Cambridge Theological School, dellv ered a lecture on the early church The subject was "The Defense of th< Faith." Dean Hodges said: The first antagonist of the faltl wae prejudice, crowned in ignorance growing up into contempt and thei into hatred, and resulting in preju dice whereby the Christians were ac cused of atheism and sedition, and o immorality. Of atheism, becausi they had no images in their sanctu aries and because they worshiped ii a fashion unknown among the rellg ious of their time; of sedition be cause they refused to acknowledg* the divinity of the Roman Empire and of immorality because they hel< secret meetings, and not knowlni what took place at these meetings everybody might guess what he chosi ?and the mind of man is so consti tuted that under such circumstance some people will guess very unpleas ant things. So, by virtue of ignor ance, in almost entire absence o facts, there grew up around th< Christians a thick atmosphere of prej adice. It is astonishing, remember lng all that afterward happened, tha Christianity should have existed to one or two centuries almost unno ticed, and then only with derision am antagonism. mere was Luclan th satirist, who makes one of his char acters, Perigrinus Proteus, profes to be a Christian, and when he is pu In prison is visited by prominen Christians, who reverence him be cause he is in danger of martyrdom and then says of them: "These mie guided creatures have so persuade themselves that they are going to llv forever that they have lost all fea of death;" and he says, again, tha "they have been taught by thei Master that they are all brothers, an they love one another in an amazin manner." It is a friendly comment but mingled with contempt. Ther was Celsus, the critic, who wrote long and substantial book again! the Christian religion, in which h decried it first on the ground of his tory. He says it is not historical bt cause it is filled with accounts of mil acles, and miracles cannot happen and so he begins with the virgi birth and the resurrection, and dl; credits miracles, which he say Christ was able to do by meais c tricks He learned In Ervnf An/ econd, of philosophy. He says th Incarnation is impossible becaus God is intangible, and unnecessar because God is Rood. It is absurd, h says, to think that God cares for an little company of people and servic* on this planet, and he praises th Greeks, who put their trust in reaso over against the Christians, who pi their trust in faith. There was Marcus Aurellus. en peror, philosopher, moralist, the on man in the pagan world whom w would have said beforehand woul have appreciated the Christian relij Ion and would have gone out to met it. He views them with a far-o contempt and refers with some d< rision to the alacrity with whic Christians go to martyrdom. Thi religion, which within a few centui ies was to take possession of th Roman world, which was to be th most notable fact in the history t the race, began in obscurity, an ol scurity amazing to us. When Chrii tianity came to be a little know there came in its defense against il antagonists the Apologists, chief c whom was Justin Martyr. Born s Sychar, in Palestine, of pagan pai entage, at an early age Justin devote himself to philosophy. In his desir to learn the relation between Go and the world, he in turn sought thi knowledge from the Stoics, the per patetics and the Pythagorians, hn finally turned to Christianity and die martyr at Rome. From some wril ings of his we learn that in the mid die of the second century the Cbrh tlono VlQ/1 r\r\ 1 J uau iiu ?. ecu anil uu icuiiauu of the creed, and no formulation c the truths of their religion. Justl made some inferences from the Bibl in the direction of faith. He lai great stress upon the argument fror prophecy, and had much to say abou devils, with whom he Identifies th gods of the Pagan world, and he be lieved in a literal millenium. Ther was a lack or order and formality i: the church, but they took collections he says, and describes a service a which there was a reading of th Bible, a long prayer, a hymn and sacramental feast of bread and wine The second antagonist of th Christian faith was Heresy. The tim came when men of edncation am learning began to be attracted towari the Christian religion, and there wa a natural desire on the part of Chris tian teachers to prove the Christiai religion to those persons, to make i reasonable to their cultivated minds and the result was sometimes heresy Heresy, I suppose, is almost alway the result of that kind of purpose These heretics were the Gnostics whose aim it was to make some kini of a combination between Christiai truth and the other kinds of truth floating about in the minds of men Gnostics found two great difficultie in religion: One, the difficulty of re conclling the New Testament with th Old Testament, partly on the groum of morality, which is taught from s much higher a plane in the Ne\ Testament than in the Old Testament the difficulty emphasized by th teaching of St. Paul, wherein h seemed to set a new system of grac over against the old system of works How to reconcile these discrepancie between the Old and New Testament nernlexeif them A nH tlin nthm. ?>?? plexity was, how to reconcile the bai world with the good and mighty God These they met with a series of prop osltions. Tw"" ? are two antagon latlc r . is matter whlcl is er nd there is a spir It wo': < i. r I >lly divine." The also sa l are two worlds the low 'n'. in which we live clot: i and thereby hav ing out i i ' ir.dtred by this envir onmc!. < ' I; a .d a higher world whe?? God 4?rtila, remotely distan t and having between Him and ua a long series ot spiritual being, emanations from Him, called aeons, and t at the end of this long line of aeons ' reaching down Is the Demiurge, a pretty poor kind of aeon." The Demiurge was the maker of the world, and be was responsible for all this evil matter, and the Demiurge was the God of the Old Testament. Everything that takes place in the Old Testament Is under the control of the > Demiurge, not of the Supreme God, > and we may deal with It with all the I freedom we like . The 8upreme Aeon, they said, was the Christ who came j to redeem man from the tyranny of the Demiurge; and 8hrist redeemed j man, not by the sacrifice of His death upon the cross, because, matter being i evil, Christ had no body. That was . only an appearance. There was no . incarnation, no resurrection, or any f of the rest of it. He saves man. not 9 by the death of the cross, but by . Illumination, by the shining in of ) His Spirit upon the spirit of man. The third antagonist of the faith . was Competition. There came Into 9 existence two great new religions, on ; the one side the religion of Plato (a j revival of philosophy), and on the 5 other side the religion of Mithras (a i revival of Paganism). These came j In the way of a revolt from the pro. sale religion of the Roman Empire. B It had in it no emotion. It was a harp rnntrnrt hPtwoon mnn nnrt flntl 1 _ wherein man said, up and down, "I f will give you a certain amount of e ritual if you will give me a corres_ ponding amount of protection." It _ had in it no sense of mystery. It I was just as commonplace as the morr ality. Now, the world was longii.g for some appeal to emotion, for some j satisfaction of its sense of mystery, e and these two religions came at the _ place to do that work. Neoplatons ism, a revival of philosophy, found t its exponent in Plotinus. From fragX ments of books he wrote we get some idea how he tried to bind together t> all the truth there was irto one avail tern, except the truth of Christianity, d And then opposed to Neoplatonism e was an ideal, an ideal ned not a perr son. Mithraism was the most fort midahle competitor that Christianity r ever had. It rcemed at one time as d if it were likely to become the religt? ion of Europe. It entered very little tt into literature, nnd scarcely anything e was known about it until men began a to study the ruins of Mithralc shrines ^ and read the inscriptions and gradue ally to find how far spread it was and 5. what it meant. It came from Pers'a >. and its supreme god was Mithras, ?. who was the representative of the in; visable and eternal deitv behind and n the mediator between Him and us. He was snnernatiirallv horn and His g first appearance was to shepherds. (f He fought with a wild boar that was ]_ ravaging the country which He killed e whose blood became a vine and whose ;e" marrow sown in the earth became the y wheat. After His victorious battle "e He dined with the sun. H? was to y come again in a second advent and ?s hold a general judgment of all mane kind in which the good went one way n and the bad another?into heaven or hell. They had a baptism of blood and water for newness of life followed j. by a sealing an anointing of confirmie ation, and after that a holy commun e Ion of bread and wine. They had d sanctuaries in which liturgies were ?. chanted by vested priests ministering >t at altars adorned with lights, ff This day on which we meet Is >. called Sunday because of Mithras, h When Constantine gave out his edict is in the days when the empire became r_ Christian he decreed that the first l6 day of the week should be kept, as a ,e dav of rest and they called it by it3 >f Mlthraistic name, the venerable day j. of the sun. Why is Christmas kept 3- on the twentv-flfth of December? Noli body knows when our Lord was born. ;s Even the season of the year has to,f tally departed from the memory of Lt man. The only indications of the r_ time of year point to the summer d when the shepherds were abiding in e the fields. Christmas is kept on the d twenty-fifth of December because It [s was Mithras' blrthda". l_ That was Mithras' birthday kept as d a day of rejoicing among the votaries d of this religion scattered all over from t_ the desert of Sahara to the glens of l_ Scotland, where shrines of Mlthra i_ have been found. When Christianity n became victorious over this religion ,f she found it wise to say to the conn verts, "Keep on with your domestic e rejoicing on December 25, but do all d these joyful things in remembrance n of Jesus Christ, our Saviour." The t essential defect, however, in this ree ligion of Mlthra was that there was no Mithra; he was only a Mith. Nnse ticism was founded on an idea; not n a person. Mithralsm was founded on , allegory, not a person. But the hu? man soul cries out for some manifes e tation or uon in tne rorm or actual, a historic personality. There were the four men who dee fended the faith ore-emlnently In the e second and fourth centuries: Justin, tj the apologist: Irenaeus, the theolo3 glan; Clement, the instructor, and 8 Orlgen, the commentator. These were the men who defended the faith n against the three agnostics?preju t dice, heresy and competition. i, A Prayer. s Our Heavenly Father and truest >. Friend, who hast so loved and saved I, us, the thought of Whom Is sweet and i always growing sweeter, come and n dwell in ouf hearts; then Thou wilt s keep \Vatch on our Hps, our deeds, i. and we shall not need to be anxious s either for our souls or our bodies, i- Give us charity, sweetest of a'.l gifts, e which knows no enemy. Give us in d our hearts pure love, born of Thy love o to us, that we may love others as v Thou lovest. Loving Father of Jesus ;, Christ, from Whom floweth all love, e let our hearts, frozen in sin, cold .to e Thee and cold to others, be warmed e by this divine fire. So help and bless i. us through Christ, Thy Son. s Tlio Lord's Mandate. "The White Man's Burden" In Its il highest and noblest aspect Is, surely, I. the duty that our Lord has committed i? to us of evangelizing the world. The time?" the set time"?for doing this i- has come. Happy are they who can h discern the times, and respond to the - call of God and man. blessed are y they who sow beside all waters.?* : Rev. F. W. Macdonald. >, Condemnation of Sin. 8tn against the body must he conl, demned as severely as sin against the t souL Habitual Constipation Mcy be permanently overcome by proper personal efforts with the assistance of theory Truly beneficial \a*atire remedy. 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