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ELBERT EL A U L Proprietors. Wx. P. HOUSEAL, j ELBERT H. AULL. EirroR. A LAY SERMON. For the past two weeks the people of Newberry have been greatly aroused on the subject of religion. The Rev. R. G. Pearson has preached a number of strong and powerful sermons which have been accompanied with the power of the Spirit and have brought convic tion to many hearts. Multitudes have attended his preaching. There has been a religious awakening, and much good has been done. We sincerely trust it will be lasting in its benefits. Many have professed Christ and have pledged to mend their ways. Some fifty persons have united with the va rious churches. When the excitement of the hour is over and the preacher is gone, we hope the pledges taken and the professions made will still be re membered. There should be a living of the pro fessions made. As the preacher told us, if we are sincerely in earnest, we need to take this religion into our offices, and|fields, and shops, and plaoes of business. We want to have the life and the character and conversation a living and ever present testimony of the religion we profess. If It is not such as to shine forth in the every day life, it will not be of much value. It should make us charitable in our judg ment of others, kind and forbearing, one to another, alwayb ready and will ing with a helping hand to a brother in distress or trouble. We should always take delight in ministering unto others than in being ministered unto. Evermore ready to helpa neigh bor or friend up the hill rather than to be always trying to give a push down. That is the religion that Christ taught, not only by precept but by example. He came to riinister unto others and not to be ministered unto, and his whole life and suffering and death bear testimony to this fact. If we have re ceived such an awakening here as will make us strive harder to follow in his footsteps, then we should all be thank fal for the coming of Rev. Mr. Pearson. The good work he has set In motion should not stop with his departure. We should also remember that each church here has a devoted pastor who is with us all the time and who is deep ly interested in all of us, and in the welfare of souls. And if we would only hold up their hands and show them a little more appreciation of their efforts -In our behalf and co-operate with them a little more, they would be encouraged and their hearts would be made glad. They are just as much interested in your soul's welfare as Mr. Pearson; they are just as earnest, they are just as devoted to their work, they are just as ready to suffer for your welfare. Our duty now is to be just as ready and willing to give them aid and attend on their ministrations and hold up their hands and encourage and co-operate with them as we did with the preach ing and work of Mr. Pearson, and Mr. Pearson will be delighted to know and belheve that we are doing it. If we have been aroused to a sense of ouri duty and opportunity and privilege in this matter, then it is fortunate that Mr. Pearson has been with us.. We hope that all of us will think more on these things, and that we will see in the results lasting benefits to our town and community. Our sincere hope is that one of the results of this religious awakening will be to put more love in our hearts for one another, to cause us to be more charitable, to judge one another more kindly, to be able to show a greater spirit of forbearance. The great commandment, you know, is to love God with all your heart and your neighbor as yourself. The man .or the woman whose heart has not been touched and kindled with this love lacks the one thing needful. While on this subject, we desire to quote here from an article on "Judging Kindly" that we read the other day, and with this we bring our lay sermon to a con clusion and send it forth with a hope that it may be helpful and of benefit to some one: It is an easy thing to condemn a sinner send him toprison and so fogt all about him. It is a very diflerent thin to look on a sinner with pitying eye and while con demning what be has done, make him feel that you are his friend and will help him to recover himself. The habit of harsh judgment is ungracious, ungentle and unchristian, but altogether too common among us. we; are prone to attrib ute a bad motive even where It would be posble to see agood motive. It is not too much to say that we rather relish a rumor 'which tells against a neighbor, and find a morbid comfort in the thought that people are not so good as they pretend to be or seem If a man gives largely to a charity our first Impulse is to declare that there 1s a purpose in it which is not quite as excellent as ap msan Indiscrtion, either wiluly or $:cem Just as hardfor her to hea the wout d as possible. In a word, we are not helpful to each' other, and are L:iuch more I acitinedI to shove an ofrender down hill than to pull .him up hill. We are more ap to look on the darkest side of other pepe's lives and to think the worse of them tan to look on the bright side and think the best of them. At the same time we would be gladio have them look at us leniently and find a good rather than a bad motive. Doing uinto others. however, as ynu would have them do to you neither suits our convenience nor our appetite. A painter of acient:tireswascomnmanded to make a portrait oft the monarch. It so happened that His Majesty had a very ugly scare on his face which getydisfigured him. The artist, with kidydiplomacy, a.sked hissitter to lean his hea on his hand, saying it would give a finer pose. He then deftly arranged matters in such way that the fingers of the monarch entirely covered -the s.car, and so the portrait was painted with no scare visible. If we were to foUow the example of the artist and charitably cover up the scars on the lives of our friends, or If. conscious that we need mercy ourselves, we should exercise that virtue toward others, or if, as com manded by Christ, we should make, not a weak, but a loving judgment of acts which come within our notice, we should soon hear the rustle of angel wings In this hard world, and the sweet perfume of the millennium would be wafted earthward. A kindly judgment is one "f the rarest things on the earth, and it is als,> one of the most excellent. *We hope that we now have an end of the spy system. The Herald and News does not want to see a return to barrooms, especially,upon the old plan. Let us try prohibition or get some good high license law that wiIl embody the good features of the dispensary system. We publish on our first page the State Constitution of the Democratic party as amended in 1692. Last week we published the county constitution. It will be well for you to file these two copies away for handy reference so you may know what the party Jaw is. G3en. Farley pleads for moderation and forbearance in politics. We hope he will do something to bring about such a state of affairs. HE DISPE(AEY LAW UNCOIITITU TIONAL, The Supreme Court has at last filed its decision in the dispensary case and 1 the law is declared unconstitutiona1by a majority of the court. Only that it could have been possible to have had the decision sooner. Justice Pope does not agree with a majority of the court, but holds that the law is constitu tional. Di3pensaries have all been closed and the State is, at least temporarily, out of the whiskey bisiness. But she still has a very large supply on hand. Gov. Tillman says business has only been suspended for the summer to allow time for repairs. What he means by that we do not know. We rather sus pect that Gov. Tillman is really glad that the decision is as it is. The dis pensary law was giving him a good deal of trouble and no doubt he is glad to be relieved of the responsibility. Many others who were drawing good salaries no doubt feel just the other way. But the decision seems to need further deciding and elucidating. No one seems to know just what the des cision decides, or rather just what the status of affairs is. The best lawyers give it different interpretations. Some think we have prohibition, while others seem to think that we are back where we were beforei and still others that we have no law on the subject at all just now and that every body can sell whis key now just as they can sell corn or bacon. It seems to us that we have plain and simple prohibiton. In one paragraph the court says: "After the fullest and most careful and deliberate consideration we feel constrained to say that the act is clearly unconstitutional; except in as far as it forbids the granting of licenses to retail spiritous liquors beyond the 30th of June, 1893. Under this view all subordinate questions presented in all the cases, except the first named, lose all practical importance, and need not, therefore, be considered." That portion of the act which re peals all other acts inconsistent with this one, it seems to us, is also of no force, and, therefore, all the laws on the subject prior to the passage of the dispensary act are still of force except that under them no license can be issued to retail spiritous liquors. It Ir just the same as if, under tbe lccal option law, a town voted not to issue license. Instead of voting on the ques tion the Legislature has passed an act saying no licenses shall be issued and the Supreme Court says it is a good law. But we must admit that we do not know just what the effect of the de cision will be. The court says the law is unconstitutional. We are very much in the state of mind of Editor Wil liame, of the Greenville News, who says that he tried hard to decide what the decision really decided and finally came to the conclusion that he was about ready to walk off meekly and humbly, to an asylum for the feeble minded without demanding extradi tion papers or habeas corpus, until he found nearly everybody weas in the same fix as himself. We quote here what he farther says which will give some Idea of the uncertainty which seems to prevail as to what the decision does really mean. We hop5e, however, that we will all soon know just where we are at on this question. As we said above the dispensaries have all been closed. In fact, we gather from the state ment of Chief Justice McIver, that the1 decision Is yet to be decided. There is a decision, as we understand it, or an opinion. It is about twenty columns long and is against the dispensary law. Yet how it will aff et the dispensary law or what Its practical result to any body will be, the Chief Justice declines to say until acase is carried before him. Then the court will decide what Its] decision means. Until then all is speculation and the opening stages of paresis. It seems to us that nobody can do anything with liquor now, except drinc gIt. 80ofar as wecan see there is nothing bearing on that poibt and any man who is in possession of liquor de facto may absorb it at his convenience and dodge the police If possible. Aside from that, we are under a prohibition clause and also the claws of the blind. tiger. The old license law is repealed, we suppose, but do not know how. The prohibition law stands but it is nQt yet in force. The dispensary law is no law at all, but continuestooperate. Whether there is any scrap of the law of 1893 which escapes the general fate of the law of 1892 is not yet revealed. Where are we at, anyhow? Everything was;to be settled by tbe de cision of the Supreme Court. We were all looking forwrd to itas disposinw of the entire dispensary complication. NowI we are more complicated thatt ever. We don't know whether we are in a prohibi- I tion State, a license State, a transition] state or a state of sin and misery. In junction and habeas corpus have begun work. Old mandamus will be along pre sently. With all of these we became famil iar in 187ti. After that we may look for quo warranato and that willesettle it. We won't get out of it short of a presidential proclamation and the United States army and navy. Those of uswho wish to keep from under the operations of de lanatico inguirendo had better go out in the is boutkshesesotsan&is waiting.] for sikthogh~ lob s of I and daonlJist3diesOd P&ope Its,. 1 beentrying;to*epitanna to him we dozaotwmd- dug out forBd tiill. 2W' xpect to beer of himup there with 1meean ingoundata.tlleik!i waitng for the train t'and elis populace under the impre- boatits ~ Charley Ross or CorysGreat Unknown.' Just as soon as somebody finds out what' the law is we shall insist that the law must be.obeyed. We have been having : rather liberal doses of preaching on that subject recently. The dispensary law was law, we were told by the Abbeville Press and Banner and all the "reform" organs, and was not to be respected, even if it sent a constable ofdubious reputation into the bed room of a man's wife or the personal baggage of his daughter. What the Supreme Court says is law, or will be when the court says what it has said and epounds itE ,osition. We will demand obedients to mue law. If it is prohibition every drop of dispensary liquor will be contraband, and ought to be seized and destroyed. 'Tis sport to see the engineer hoist with his own petered out petard. The squeak of the "equedunk" try ig to masquerade as tbe blast of a trumpet will make us ridiculous and contemptible. That is what Mr. Mo Laurin says. Will he pRlease tell us what a "squedunk'' Is? We have tried to ind the word, but have failed. Itj must bha ar b ird. Congressman McLaurin has written i very caustic letter in which he cuts Lround promiscuously. We agree with the Congressman when he says we want to pour some oil on the troubled raters. "A good, conservative, busi oess-like Governor, who is not an im itator, not brilliant, but sensible, will bring us round all rignt, and the 'old lady' will be all the better for the little shaking up she has had." Now we would like te have him tell us how we are to secure a man for Governor as long as the politicianc _re in the laddle and caucuses are held and all sorts of rings are being continually formed. Mr. McLaurin will find many men-to help him bring about this state of af fairs if he will only start the movement. "It is mortifying, humiliating, for poli tics to be on the low plane" that it is. You are right, Mr. McLaurin. Then come along and help uq to get on a higher plane. LIFE AT WHITMIRE. Personal Notes-Militia Company Organ aing-Lutheran Services-A Negro Killed. WHIr'MIRE, April 23.-Mrs. Sallie Phifer has returned from a visit to her daughter at Mountville. Mrs. J. W. Holcomb and Mrs. J. C. Duckett have gone to Atlanta on a visit. Mrs. D. Swindler, of Mountville, is spending a few days with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Lee. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Reeder, of Jalapa, spent Saturday. night and Sunday in our town. Dr. R. R. Jeter went to Santue last Wed nesday to witness the marriage of his sister, Miss May, and Mr. Clarence Jeter. Mr. and Mrs. D. May have been to Monroe. N. C., to visit relatives. Mr. B. S. Hardy is off for a few days visiting his parents. The Democratic club here has been reorganized. J. S. McCarley, Esq., was elected president and J. J. Abrams sec retary. They have changed the place of meeting back to Mt. Tabor church. A military company is being organ ized here. Forty-four names have been enrolled. They will meet here next Saturday afternoon and effect a perma nent organization. The much needed rain has come at last. Considerable rain fell Thursday night and a heavy one Friday after noon, which was accompanied by con siderable wind and hail. The farmers have been making good use of the beautiful weather, and some have about flnished planting. An enjoyable "tacky party" was given at Mr. Walter Cameron's last Friday evening, and furnished amuse ment for the old and young. Some of our young people are prac ticing a beautiful drama, "Out in the Streets," which they expect to present to the public in the near future; fur ther notice will be given later. The decision in the dispensary case caused little comment here as many had anticipated the result. Rev. Antine McCullough, a young Lutheran minister of your city, preach ed an interesting sermon in the Meth odi.t church Sunday morning. There Is talk of organizing a Lutheran church here, and we hope it may be done. A negro named "Mun"' Rice was sot on Mr. F. N. Calmes' place last Baturday morning by Jack Wilson, from the effeots of which he died that night. It .seems that the shooting was provoked by Rice who was making to wards WIlson with a huge knife, and that the killing was altogether justifi able on the part of Wilson. Rice is said' to have been a bad character. J. General Conference, K. E. Chureh, South, Memphis, Tenn. May 3rd-31st, 1894. For the above occasion the Rich mrond andDanvilleRailroad andGeorgia Pacific Railway will make special rate o one first class fare for the round trip; tickets to be sold A pril 30th and May let and second, with extreme limit June 1st, 1894. The route via Birmingham is the only through car line to Memphis, and the time going and returning by the Richmond and Dnville and Georgia Pacific in connection with the K. C. M. &. B. is several hours the quickest. Be sure your tickets read over these ines. A Quarter Centuary Test. For a quarter of a century Dr. King's New Discovery has been tested, and the millions who have received benefit from its use estfy to Its wonderful curative power in all iseases of Throat, Chest and Lungs. -A remedy that has stood the tdat so long andl at has given so universal satisfacton is ,no ,periment. Each bottle is positivel ibe for Coughs and Colds. Trial bottle Free It Bobertson & Gilder's Drug Store. Large Ize soc. and $1.00. CITIZENS' MEETINGs PLANS AND SPE('IFICATIONS Ibeing ready, the citizens are re luested to meet in Opera House May th, 1894, at 4 p. in., to decide on fur her action in reference to water works. E. C. JONES, Nayor. C. A. BOWMAN, Clerk. BTOCKHOLDERS' MEETiNG NEWBERtRY, S. C., A pril, ]2th, 1894. T HE ANNUA L MEEING OF the Stockholders of the Newberry Dotton Mills will he held in hall over Martin's store, at New berry, S. C., on Wednesday, the second day of May, [894, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, for he election of Directors for the ensuing ear, and for the transaction of other )usiness. GEO. S. MOWER, Secretary. CONTRACTS TO LETs )FFICE oF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS, NEWBERRY, S. C., April 21, 1894. THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS for Newberry County will be at ong Bridge, over Little River, on riday, May 4, at 10 o'clock a. in., to et contract to repair that bridge. On sme day at 2o'ciock p. mn., they rim Jet wantract to rebuild fie Lind uBridge over Bush River. B order of the Board. J. C. DOMINICK, Chairman. Teos.. & EASE, Clerk. hadet Sore. We call the attention of the citizens f Newberry and surrounding country our stock of Goods which we beg you w'ill call and examine. We are receiving IEW FRESH STOCK EVERY WEEK. WE BUY FOR GASH WE SELL FOR CASH. o Credit given to anyone. One Price. Remember the Place: ['wo doors below Post Office, corner of mblic square. few Yart Racat Store. April 24,1894. -THERE IS NO DISPENSARY." A Consummation Every Patriot So De voutly Wished-Tillman as Talkative as Usual. [Special to The News and Courier.] COLUMBIA, April 21.-The day of the dispensary is at an end. The official death came to knell at noon to-day. At that hour telegrams were sent to every State barroom in the State. How long they will be closed is problematical. There is, however, just now every indication that the entire system has gone to pieces, never to be revived by the Legislature. The Court may grant a rehearing and,give the dispensaries a chance to gasp a little longer and then the end will come. What is most peculiar is that there seems to be but few mourners around the apparently lifeless thing. Just now, when the whole matter is at an end, no one seems to have ever assumed the re sponsibility of the law. It just dropped on the statute books "unbeknowinge" to anyone. CONFUSION WORSE CONFGUNDED. The dispensaries have been closed. What next? No one hereabouts seems to know. It is difficult to suggest pro babilities, for one moment one thing is hefard and the next moment another. Until some decision is reached the dis pensarias will be kept closed and all agencies of the State have orders not to sell liquor under any circumstances. There is some talk of trying to sell the liquor on hand in a lump sum before the demurrer is sent down, and there is a rumor that the stock will be kept in tact until there is a change in the complexion of the Supreme Court. THE POSSIBILITY FOR A REHEARING. Another suggestion made during the day was that the Attorney General would very probably ask for a rehear ing of the case, and in that way have the dispensaries reopened, and just here it may be well to put this sugges tion down for future reference, as something may happen in this line very shortly. The situation is liablo to change at any time, and until the horrible uncertainty is over no one knows where the State is at. THE GOVERNOR HAS LITTLE TO SAY. The one man who knows more than anyone else about what is going to be done is Governor Tillman, and just about this time it would be very hard to find a more non-committal man. This morning the newspaper men waited around for a long time before they could get a peep at Governor Till man. It was not known what he was going to say or how he felt, but he was just as jovial as if he had won the capi tal prize in the lottery. After greetings had been exchanged I asked Governor Tillman "what about the dispensary situation?" "Ihere is no dispensary," was Gover nor Tillman's reply. "Well, what are you going to do with the liquor on hand, if there is no dis pensary, Governor?" "Oh, well, that is a matter for the Legislature to decide," was his reply. "Are you going to call an extra session of the Legislature?" was the next query. With a hearty laugh he answered, "Excuse me if you please." Then he went on to say: "I won't say anything about what I am going to do, but I will tell you what has already been done: I have discharged the constables, ordered all dispensaries to close and quit business as State barkeeper. The State bar has closed business and gone into summer quarters for repairs." Governor Tillman wound up by saying that he was still in the ring. So much for the expression of the Governor, and if anyone can say what is coming 'let her roll," as McLendon would say. THE WATCH DOG OF THE STATE TREAS . UY. There was a'somewhat significant fact developed during the payment of the dispensary bills which came rusb lug in all day. One of the claims was for about $60 and It was made payable to Ex-Constable Brown for services rendered. It was regularly made out and approved by Governor TRlman and Commissioner Traxler. When it was presented to State Treasurer Bates for payment he said that he wa' not pre pared to pay out any money on account of the dispensary. When I saw Dr. Bates about the matter he said that he was not paying any dispensary claims. When asked whether this was done by legal advice or upon his own respon sibIlity he said that he preferred not to answer that question. A CHANCE FOR TH E PROHIBITIONISTS. No one has yet been able to decide what the Supreme Court meant to say in this paragraph: "After the fullest and most careful and deliberate consideration ...we feel constrained to say that the Act is clear ly unconstitutional, except in as far as it forbids the granting of licenses to re tail spirituous liquors beyond the 30th of June, 1893. Undei this view all subordinate questions presented in all the cases, except the first named, lose all practical importance, and need not, therefore, be c'onsidered." There are those who still insist that it means free liquor so far as licenses are concerned, and others who contend that the only possible construction is that the State will have absolute prohibi tion. It seems that the matter will have to be4taken to the Supreme Court for solution. From what can be un derstood the State Administration will rnot move in this matter, and if the dispensary cannot be resurrected the Prohibitionists will have to do the fighting if any is to be done. THIS IS A FREE LIQUOR STATE-THlE .ADMINISTRATION VIEW OF THE DIS PENSARY DECIsION. [Special to News and Courier.] COLUMBIA, A pril 23.-One of the un known quantities has been discovered and this even ng Governor Tillman's attitude is known. He does niot hesi tate to say that in his opinion the deci sion of the Supreme Court means no licensing system and free liquor so far as the license is concernr d, and he will act accordingly. He sums up his posi tion in this way: "You see I am paralyzed. I can't do a thing. It seems to me that the Court in so many words expressly declared that 'the dispensary law is not a pro ibitory law,' but the Court denies emphatically that the muDicipalties have the right to issue licenses. Now, if it is not a prohibition law and the right to issue licenses does not stand, and there is no other law applying to the liquor traffle, it looks to me like free liquor. It would appear that anybody and every body can sell liquor any where in the county, at every crossroads and anywhere else, and start up bar rooms. All Acts applying to the liquor traffic inconsistent with the Dispensary Act have been repealed, and there are none on th bettaute books." As to his taking any hand in the fight for prohibition Governor Tillmnan said: "All I have to say is thbat the Legislature gave me authority to en force the dispensary law. When the Court declared the dispensary law dead why, of course, my authority to entforee it dies with it. I don't see what right I have to attempt to maintain the con stabulary to enforce a prohibition law if it is such." When asked abont the extra session he said that all he knew about the calling of the Legislature was what he had seen in the newspapers, and that, as a usual thing, they were wrong in what they had to say. It might be suggested that the more Governor Tillman thinks over the matter the more he seems to be de lighted that he has been relieved of the ispensary incubus. Johnson's Magnetic Oil cures cramps and colic and internal neuralgia and eadache and backache instantly. 25 and 50 cts. W. E. Pelham. EVANGELISTIC-THE GRAND SUCCESS t OF A NOBLE CAUSE. -- a The Opera House Crowded Day and Night e for Two Weeks-From one to Two Bun- : d red Persous Turned A way the Last S Night-Christlans of all Denoin- S inations Interested and Bene- e fited-Penitents Converted. f f Never, in the history of the writer, r has Newberry witnessed such scenes a as have been seen and felt and enjoyed c within her boundaries during the past two weeks. Men, women and children t of all classes (among the whites, for the c crowds have been so great that it was E impossible for the colored people to be i admitted), from the most prominent of s the professional and leading citizens to f the humblest bread-winner in our t midst, have mingled in one dense mass I of humanity that seemed to be drawn l together by an irresistible force asd for a common cause. The old, tottering upon the-verge of the grave; the young- I er, in heakh cnd strength; the little ] children, gay a:id full of life, have lis- a tened, as neiver before, to the old, old story of Jesus and his love. Members of every denomination in this town attended regularly, and with interest and earnestness in their hearts; and their gathering together in this eager, anxious throng, with moistened eyes l and quivering lips, with beaming faces f and softened hearts, and with expres- ] sions of forgiveness and charity toward i neighbors and friends, gave a taste of I the delights of a ce-sation of hostilities and strife in COnurch and State, and of the peaceful dawn of the coming mil lennium which is nearer and nearer at hand. Not only have the entire people of a this community (with but few excep- I tions) been suiging day and night to I the opera house,where the services were l held, but citizens of the surrounding country, for miles in every direction, have crowded in to the meetings and i helped to swell the great concourse of eager listeners and anxious inquirers, f all moved by a mighty impulse, unin terruptedly for two solid weeks. The a interest in these meetings was good from the first, but as the days passed it t became great and greater still, and as I the nights came it grew in intensity and power, until it has flooded New berry with a light unsurpassed in all t these years of blight and waste. So c great was the feeling that business was a practically suspended during the morn- E ing hour of service, and our merchants t and other business men did not, with t but few exceptions, resist the Spirit in a the earnest efforts that were made to < purge this town of all uncleanness and l lit it for the indwelling of righteous- I A feeling has come over the whole i community that is indescribable; a t stillness pervaded even the streets- t not very unlike the stillness of death a or desolation, bnt more like the seren ity of a quiet Sabbath of unexpressed t peace that passes understanding; a still ness that has penetrated almost every ( house of business, almost every resi- a dence and almost every heart; and a great calm has settled upon the com- r inunity that has made many a young l man throw down his cards, many an older one put aside his bottle, and' a many a young woman resolve to give t up her dancing; a calm that has made the blasphemer pause, the swearer cease I his swearing; and that has caused the scoffer to feel, if not acknowledge, that c this deep stillness, this terrible , alm ness, this awful quietness, this solemn silence, is the forerunner of a judgment to come. The events of the meetings t have been grand and inspiring. The ' I crowded parquet, the packed dress cir cle, the over-flowing gallery, the full stage, every seat in the building occu- Z pied, and extra seats filling the aisles, with even the standing capacity of the i house tested to its fullest; men, women I and children up stairs and down stairs, wherever they could get a seat,-was a sight that could not but gladden and inspire the Christian's heart, quicken the lukewarm, arouse the indifferent, and dumbfound the vile and the un- 3 caring. The vast throng was majestic in itst presence alone, but when the large a choir sang, and especially "Nearer my God to Thee," "Jesus lover of my soul," accompanied by hundreds of voices in( the congregation, it was a scene that 1 beggars description and that will live in the memory of all present. It was beautiful, marvelous, inspiring and grand and glorious, even to those of us who are too weak to be "*hat we ought to be," and it was a glimpse of1 that heaven which we ought to have1 on earth, and an earnest of what willI be, but more brilliant and magnificentI yet, hereafter. The writer did not attend all theI meetings, but such were the incidents and' impressions attending those at which he had the pleasure and the privilege of being present. But there was a similarity in all the meetings-a deep feeling of reverence, of piety, of earnestness, of sincerity. Brotherly love was manifested among the mem bers of all denominations. Preachers, officers, laymen, all seemed to- enjoy the services and to take an interest in the meetings, to understand that it was a special season of grace, a time for deeIsion and action and not hesitation. The climax was reached Sunday nighbt, the last meeting. It seemed a culmination of two weeks' efforts in - one direction, an answer to uraited prayer, a concentration of mighty I forces that bad been constantly at ~ work. The house was filled an hour ~ and a half before the time for services: to begin. The people from the coun try came in early because they knew it{ was their only chance for seats. The citizens of the town who did not hurry. were unable to find even standing - room. Long before the appointed hour the available space of the build ing was packed and jam med as never since the opera house was built. A few had to leave their seats on account of the crowded condition. The aisles were almost impassible and the door way was blocked. It is estimated that from one to two hundred persons were turned away. It was an overflow meeting--an overflow without and a spiritual overflow within. It was like a rushing of many waters that had been gathbering and increasing day by: day until they had swollen into a. mighty stream that swept everything before it. The seating capacity of the opera house is 750. Thbe number pres ent on this occasion has been variously estimated at from 1 000 to 1,500. Ths're were probably from 1,100 to 1,200 within the' walls of the building, for every nook 'and corner was packed. Some contend that the number wasi 1,300. And about two-thirds of that vast congregation pressed forward to give the preacher their hand during the closing moments of the services. It was a touching sight and melted the hardest heart. Rev. RL. G. Pearson, tbe evangelist who has been conducting these meet ings, and who was born in Mississippi but whose home is now in Asheville, N. C., is a very earnest, zealous and successful preacher of the gospel of peace and love, and of whom it can be said he goes about doing good, being in deed and in truth a follower of the meek and lowly Nazarine. It has '1 been said that he is not an eloquent orator or a man of much comeliness, and that he sometimes uses question able (?) language. Thern wherein lay his power and influence and magnet ism?--for Newberry has certainly been under the spell of his charm for two weeks as she rever has been under the convincing aud convicting power of man's preaching since about the year 1832 when Rev. Daniel Baker visited this town The older citizens say that nothing like Mr. Pearson's meeting has been known here since. Mr. Pearson is eloquent-eloquent with the power of the spirit, with the baptism of the Holy Ghost, with consecration to is duty and devotion to his work; and his beauty is the beauty of the soul~ of 3e mind, of the heart, that shines in is life and character. His sermons re powerful fu their simplicity, earn 3tness and sincerity. he makes no retenses, but preaches the simple tory of the cross simply, pleadingly, weetly, gently. With him there is no xcitement, no ranting. He warns rcibly, without bypocricy, truthfully, ,arfully and fearlczsly; but pleads 2ore tenderly and lovingly to the sin er to turn and look. If be cccasion lly uses a harsh word it is because he beys the command of his Master to cry aloud and spire not," and to tell be people of their sins-he only emonstrates the figure of the two dged sword. He is broad and liberal! n his views, and combines common ense with knowledge and wonderful amiliarity of the Bible. He is in ensely religious, without being fanat eal, bigoted or narrow-minded in the east. He is surely the ideal man of xod, "a legate of the skies," clothed vitlh divine authority to preach truth o a wicked and perverse generation. ndowed with wisdom from on high ud imbued with the very essence of iiety, he preaches s:ith such force, uch naturalness, such gracefulness vxthomt self-consciousness, such win omeness, that men, women and chil Iren, of all cla.aes and conditions, Irink in the sentences that flow from uis lips. People look into each others' aces as the preacher closes the Sacred look from which he has been trans nitting the intelligence and beauty of ieaven and the glory of immortality, ad see in each other's looks feelings f wonder that the old story should be ret so new to them. Mr. Pearson's arguments are logical, lear and convincing, and his conclu ions reasonable and irresistible. We ike his preaching so much that we iave no desire to pick a flaw in any of is sermons, if we could. The length f this article ana the space of the pa >er forbid a synopsis of these sermons, vhich we would like to give. We vish it were possible to reproduce all he strong points of the series. They vere a "feast of reason and flow of oul." These meetings will rriult in lasting enefir to this community. Not the east of the good that has been accom lished is the great and precious influ nee that has. been brought to bear pon the membership of the differant hurehes. There will be a higher tandard of holy living and Christian ctivity as one of the happy effects of he meeting. A pastor tells us that ot less than fifty names have been nd will be added to the different hurch rolls, as follows: Lutheran, 4; aptist, 11-1 by letter; Associate Re orwned Presbyterian, 6; Methodist, 10. 'he session of the Presbyterian churcb 3 to meet to-night. It is expected hat there will be 10 or 12 accessions to bat church. There will also be acces ions to the Episcopal church. During the meeting the contribu ions amounted to $435 81. The ex enses were r88 15. The balance, 347.66, was presented to Mr. Pears n a a thank offering. Mr. Pearson will conduct his next oeeting at Yorkville, on'Sunday. He eaves Newberry with the profoundest ratitude of the hearts of our citizens, nd the love of all for himself and his toble wife. May the peaceful influence that has een and is now exerted over this con unuity continue to show itself, in all or lives and actions. ENDORSED BY OTR PASTORS. Whereas, Rey. R. G. Pearson came at our ivitation on the 8th inst., to conduct a nion evangelistic meetin ' in this town; and rhereas. said meeting was closed last night fter continuing two weeks, and we desire in lace ourselves on record in regard to the ieeiing and the evangelist, therefore be it esolved. 1. Thbat we learned for onrselves his souind ess in doctrmne, his knowledge and skill in andling the word of God, and his power rom the Holy Spirit in pr eaching the Gospel nd his Christian prudence In managing a meeting of this kind. 2. That we and out selves and our churches dified and revived. an't that we witness rith great joy that every class in our comn cinnity is ie.eling the power of Gospel truth. 8 That s Pastors we 'are grteful to the Eing anid Head of the Church that be sent bis brother to labor so effciently and so raternall y i.a our Miastei's work In this own, and that we c>rdially commend him to .11 who aze seeking the services of a faithful vangelist. E .MCUOK Pastor Associate Reformnec kresb.yterian ~hurch. A. .'. SToKES, ~astor Methodist Episcopal i. hurch, south. G. A. W EIG1:LT, - Past or Baptist i.hurch. J. 8. Uo zBr, Pastor Presbyterian Church. Newberry, s. C., A pril 23d, 18%4. Mr. Pearson left yesterday for Spar anburg, to rest a- day or two there; hence he will go to Blacksburg, on uis way to Yorkville. From Yorkville ue will go to GJreenville, Ten.. and uold a meeting tfbere. Then to his uomue -in Asheville to recuperate. He uopes to hold a meeting at Due West iext February. "God be with you till we meet Lgain." Nominations. For County Supervisor. JTENKINS H.8SMITH IS HEREBY announced as a candidate for Jounty Supervisor, subject to the Demn ecratic primary.. [RRY D. SHOCKLEY IS HERE Lby announced as a candidate for ounty Supervisor as provided for under an Act of the General Assembly f 1893, subject to the result of the Dem eratic primary.. D)R. D. H. WERTZ IS HEREBY announced as a candidate for younty Supervisor for Newberry Coon y, subject to the Democratic primary. FRUITS. EAISINS, CURR ANTS, FIGS., CHERRIES, (Chrystalized.) PRUNES, DATES, APPLES, ORANGES, LEMONS, COCOANUTS, OLIVES IN GLASS, OLIVES IN KEGS. %ROCERIES. UGAR, COFFEE,. 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