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4 ?hr IGmtraiilrr Nnit ( SEMI-W EKKLY.) JUANITA W ?' LIE Editor W. 8. HOUGH. . . Business Mgr. PUBLISHERS' ANNOUNCEMENT] Published Tuesdays and Fridays at Lancaster. S. C., by The Lancaster Publishing Compauy, successors to The Ledger, established 1852; The Review, established 1878; The Enterprise. established 1891, and entered as second-class matter Oct. 7, 1905, at the postofllce -? T -c r> niwlor A f?t ?LL uaavaovci , kj. ., uu\kv> of Congress of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: (Iii Advance.) One Year $1.H Six Months 7f TO SUBSCRIBERS. Your subscription must be paid up to and including year marked on your label. If paper is stopped look at your date and you will probably find you are behind one year. We cannot send each subscriber a statement. Look at Your Label. If you do not receive your paper promptly we would appreciate it if you will notify us and we will correct tiie mistake. In the hurry of mailirf out the papers names of subscribers are someti- s left ofT inadvertently. ?Weather forecast for Soul Carolina: Partly cloudy Wednei day. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11)11. "Wear cotton clothes" is our sh gau. Make it yours. Are you helping to boost "Lai caster County Day?" October 2'J will be our opportur Ity to advertise this section of tli state. Now is the time of all times fc us to buy home products and liel the neighbors over a hard place. Remember, Mr. Farmer, you can eat cotton but there are other croij you can eat if you will but plan them. Goods made of silk and wot are all right in time of peace bu cotton cloth is the appropriate wai time fabric. In reading of the many propose solutions of the cotton problem, w should bear in mir.d that, after all it is up to the individual farmer. The governor's pardon mill is an ~w.v. u. ouuiu v aroima inanuiactur ing concerns that seems to he ran ning on full time. .If you have not bought a suppl; of cotton goods you have not dom your duty. Why not buy a bolt o cotton goods? The" pore'' man would be glad t? profit as his "friends" and" chain pions" are doing by the extra ses sion of the legislature. The world's series has claimei more attention during the past rev days than the Kuropean war. An< few enthusiasts are neutral. Why not buy all the cotton good; you are going to need for severa months to come and thus help in crease the demand for the staple. "Lancaster County Day" to b trepresenative must be well patron Izeil. We hope that people fron overs section of the country will joii in this booster trip. iStrange, isn't it that the incorpoi a'ors of "The Commonwealth," si lected a name almost synonynou: with that of the journal they hate s cordially, viz, The State. The (ireenwood town ennmil looking out for cinders to spread o Its muddy streets. We pass tli news item on as a tip to the lion council hoping they will do likewis In The York County Fair Kdi Ion of both The Record and T1 Evening Herald, Rock Hill has tv splendid boosters for her fair th year. Both are vevy creditable, her two newspapers the "Go< Town" has a valuable asset. While to many of us the Euro can war is a stern reality, we leai that there are several men in th county who believe, there "air so sich thing "but that the war ta la merely a newspaper lie to depre the price of cotton. Those Florence County seho children whose teacher allowi them to go out into the held ai pick cotton, are perhaps the wis for a lesson not taught in hook Practical wisdom such as this on t part of teachers would help the over many hard places and would < much to recommend education those who do not thoroughly appi ciate what training it affords. iwtl?\ ..... v-i*? i Mi FAC'K THK ntl'i:i. : The farmers af the cotton Jielt; might as well face the truth about the condition that now onlrouts them, and that is that it is squarely up to them to determine whether I L * they will get a fair price for this, as , well as next year's cotton crop. It | is a fact that a surplus of at leas; six million bales will be carried over j into another year, making it plain that next year's crop of cotton should be diminished at least that much. If tne consumers of cotton i knew for a fact that there would be ; !a shortage of six million bales of | cotton next year the priee now for | j the present crop would materially \ J? i advance, llut how are they to he _5 ! satisfied that tliis will l>e done? i It is a true saying that "actions ! speak louder than words." and as rapidly as the present crop of cotmn is gathered, if the farmers of the cotton states would, in concert, commence sowing the one-half or more of their land in grain, closer and grasses, the world would take notice at once and the present prices would advance and reasonably fair, prices would yet be obtained for the ; present crop, as well as next year's I crop. But when we consider 'lie fact ! that food stuffs, on account of the ll ' | war in Europe, wilt bring a good ; price next summer it is an additional ! reason for cotton giving place to 1 I grain. So it would seem that or-1 _- dinarv prudence and the exercise of j. no large amount of common sense would prompt the farmer to cut down his acreage in cotton and plant food stuffs. Rut as we have said, it1 depends alone upon the farmer to : help himself. The calling together | of the South Carolina legislature in e ! extra session will amount to nothing except to place upon the sho'ti^ers of | | the tax payors the expense of the ' ir session, estimated at $50,000. If {) i the farmer will not realize condii tions and act upon them from self- ; | interest, he will indeed have a hard | road to travel for the next few years. I8 , In this connection we quote from j l( | The Augusta Chronicle: "If all this won't influence him to ' i that end then all the laws for acre-; age curtailment passed by all the >1 states in the South won't have the i it desired effect: and all the sentimental talk of newspapers and politicians. with all the 'holding move i menus mrown in, won i neip to any appreciable extent. It may not tie el ! popular' to present the situation e this plainly; but it is far bettor that our farmers realize the truth now '? than after it is too late." The wanton destruction of some of our beautiful shade trees by order of the city council is much to be - . I deplored. We beg ol them to spare every tree. The growth of many vears ninv be cut down in a single V hour, but may not be replaced for Q as many more years. Due reflection will show any reasonable man the wisdom of what we ask. I TIMKS THAT WKItK HAItl). - >lr. Itniley Ke members the Time Sooken of t?\ Slierill' Hiinlci I To the tiditor of The News: ' The little article of my life-long i friend, John P. Ilunter, which was1 i published in the last issue of your paper, ini regard to hard times, brings the same hard times he I speaks of vividly to my mind. I 1 iv ed in a half-mile of Johnnie Hunter.; P| And can endorse every thing he said } -'in regard to hard living, and more I too. for he did not tell that as cheap and plentiful as salt ts now, then his (> family, as well as mine, and many others in our neighborhood, had to actually dig up the dirt in smokeit houses upon which salted meat had u | dripped for years and boil 't in order to get a little salt. There are many other things I could mention which would show that real hard times were sure about our cabin '- doors in the sixties, but 1 prefer to h, think of. and look for, better things and better times. A. J. BAILEY. js American Hankers Will Discuss New in Currency System. is Itichmond. Va., Oct. 12.?Handle reds of delegates here for the fore. tieth convention of the American Ii n lroro' a uoa/iI o i/?i\ Knrron t? preliminary work today in numerous ie ; committee meetings while hundreds vo of others jouryneyed to points about is Richmond that were scenes of stirr,n ing events in American history. With 5<1 the nation'8 now currency system about to be launched, officials of the most impotant discussion of the con p" vention would rente about it. The eeserve system will be the topic of '|8 several addresses, including those of 1 1 President Reynolds of the assocition Governor Hamlin, of the federal reserve board, and Chairman Glass, of the house currency committee. iol To what extent the emergencies thrust upon the western hemisphere by Europe would be discussed had not been determinen wnen several of or | ' the outstanding questions were [,_! taken up oday In the committee im | meetings. 1o to ? The fifteenth episode of "The Perils of Pauline" will be shown at the Star tomorrow and Ivarhoe i Thursday. THE LANCASTER NEWS MEETING OF BIBLE SOCIETY SUNDAY (Continued from Page One.) . j the history of these books which go to make up the one great book of , humanity. Then, as wonderful as the history of each book is, still more wonderful In a way is the history of the one book. Musty manuscripts, dingy volumes, illy written and scarcely de I ciphcrable vellum pages, bring to us ! the story of how this book has come 1 down to us through original and translating during the centuries. A [ more facinating story than that contained in the little book "How we Got our Riible" is scarcely to be found anywhere. And to those of you are interested in the question 1 as to how you came into possession of your Knglisli Bible, I would re- j commend that little book. But after all. when we have stud- u ied these things, we are confronted I with this fact. We have but looked j r the skeleton. The tlesh and blood, |t the heart and soul are not there, a What is the right right way to look- o at the skeleton. The flesh and blood, t What is the right way to look r. of the history of its separate books, t of its tradition slirdlu lirdlu hrdlu t of its translations, .of its effect on v or of its being pure literature? 1 do not minimize at all any one of these c studies, but it seems to me that the j " really vital way to look at the S Bible is that Indicated by Paul in t the second and third verses of his | ^ first chapter of Romans. Paul, a s servant of Jesus Cnrist. called an ' '< apostle, set apart unto the gosped 1 which he promised afore thru his |r ll? rn lilu ........i.-.l.. i?. 4 V. vin w mo |/i -y III IIIC IIHIV :? ' l'Jtures concerning his roii." In other 1 words, this may apply to the Old ; 8 Testament, but hy accomodation the ' * same idea is applicable to the New 0 Testament, a= tin Holy Scriptures i ? Not holy in the se of being better 1' I take it, but holy in the sense of j * being separate, being different, if , '' you will. And it is of these Holy ? Scripturs in their reai signifiance, as Paul sees them, thut I ?. sire to ( 11 speak to you tonight.. j a Let me read, therefore, for you [ " that portion of the text which I in-1' tend to use: "The Gospel of God , b which he promiised afore thru his ^ prophets in the holy scriptures con- (l cerning his son." Here, I take it, Paul has set clearly before us what ? makes these writing above all other writings holy. In other words, why s we are right in assigning them that * name: "The Holy Scriptures. 1 fi 1 wish to have you think witu me b about the llible as the book of oneidea. I fear a great many of us have ' gone astra> right here. We have 1 li looked 011 the Bible e.s the hook fi which contained everything^ when w in reality it contains hut one single v, idea. Men of science have scoffed at h| it and called it unscientific, they N have said that the writers did not d know that ahout which they wrote, tl And yet, the Bible is not a scientific 1 it treatise. It makes no claim to infal- P lihility along that line. The opening cnapter of this book does not con- si tain a geological table but rather a S wonderful story which however, has b proved to wonderfully scientific in b its detail. jc Likewise, the social reformer has ti specific panaceas for every evil to | t which the race is heir. And how o blindly, how miserably he has failed, li Yes. the word of God has a social / message for us, but it is in spirit, not t in letter. The Spirit of that Book 11 drove human slavery from the face t of the earth, the spirit of that book a has killed a thousand social mon- v sters, tlie spirit, drink, and it will * become a thing of the past. s And so, I might go on and on to t show how, thru the long centuries t th" spirit of this volume has been < bettering conditions in this old rtli, yet hoM hae main message of > the book, the one idea of the book, < is not to be found In any of the re- < forme which it has championed and < successfully brought to pass. I Flat what, you ask, is the one real I idea of the Bible? What is the thing 1 which separate? it, rttfferentic,te8 It, ' from all other religious literature? I think that the answer is to be > I found in the opening words of our i text, "The Gospel of God, in the i holy Scriptures." This is the one idea of the book. The good news of i God, God's Gospel, the good news coming from God, and about God. That is the thing which separates this book from all other books, and which makes it different from all < the rest. l<ook at that one idea Does the work of Confucius tell us any good ' news of God? Does Buddha. Mohammed, the many spirits who are1 worshipped in the earth. do any of them tell us the Rood news about Ood? No, we find that new* only1 in the nible. Think of the many Rood things, pleasant things, lovely | things which it tells of Hod. He Uj a holy God, a just, a kind, a loving a merciful. I said a moment ago 'hat the great reforms had been caused not on any Immediate letter' . . . I . , , OCTOBER 13, 1914. r^impossible /oj in the ?an ImpoiiiinliUj i5 fund mammy. Clbtutft eVery dreai had cUVcn partj?kit fmqc hearted iff oris of qu.Uw.r5. . l t ^anRA^cov m mgm.anaiiw inc gcr it octs. If moMS drva if the law in this hook, nut rather namely ?y its spirit, and that is true When the So nen have cothe to see. to accept, to but tin telieve in the good news about God the lies aid his mercy, and they have gone But iut into the world to bring to pass would hese great reforms which 1 have but th? nentioned. But the book itself has J<>sus 1 ut one idea, in many forms, and son of hat one idea is expressed in the tion fr< irords, "The Gospel of God." a rest Hut 1 pass on to look at that death, itlu r expression in the , text God's 'Through the prophets, <n the Iloly world t Scriptures." This book which con- So in s ?...? i - . that he is the same one which Upon n aul met, and which you met. But I must pass to that other asertion of the text, "Goncerning his on." The Bible is not only the ook of the one idea, of the one God. ? ut it is the Good of a great unity. J ine might expect that a book conaining over sixty others, and % hough spoken by one God, and with ne great idea, would in a measure 10 somewhat loosely put together. i ind this, in a measure, is true. But ? / here is one great fact wind) gives r~ inity to it all. And thus it becomes l he t>ook of a great fact. For. after ? I ill, what was the message that God I ranted to speak to men. rrue it ^ 1 \as tin- good news concerning 1.1m ? I |)> elf, which I have in a general way J ouched upon. But was it nothing .. noro than that? Yes, it was con- ? erning his Son. % sh Ami 1 realize, niy friends, that we ? lave not time tonight to enter ? elaborately nto a discussion of the J ialborately into u discussion of the V 1{* :erning his Son. Yet I think that y n its great outlines, wo may follow | Lc it. Tlila Hook contains the story of ^ how God's Son became incarnate. It Oi Leila as how, though on an equality 1 with God, he divested himself of h's V glory, and came to earth, taking up- V Dl on hfmself the form of a servant, ?nd was made in the likeness of sin- % ful man. In other words, it is the ?+* Btory of how Christ touched our humanity. And whenever we hear that J beautiful benediction: "Grace, V nsercy and peace," we should re- V member that It is but another way of saying: "God, in his Son came ? from heaven to earth, and became a V 81 man for me." 4A But further than this. The Bible A Is tho Book which tells us how, after w' becoming a man, Jesus was demon-* jf. m< strated to be the Son of God. with Ba power. May I ask you hare you re- V reived your Idea of God? It hardW ?? romftH from abstract argument con- o ^ corning his being, but rather It ? come from the fact thnt, during his X r earthly life. Jesus was demonstrated j jT I* to i>e the Son of Ood, with power. V W Thus It comes about, that the ^ Bible la the relation of but one fact, j uui inn- mra, huh many pans, or tlie tnd each part was written or Jesus, poken by a different man. We have and th lere many men of different charac- idea ol ers, different ideas, different social supreni onditions, and yet but one mind, died fc iometimes we have been puzzled by from tl his. Sometimes we have asked our- supreni elves, "Did God intend for all of th s wli hese books to go together?" How is the an we know that we have the right woik f< nes? And this has sometimes , roved to be a real dlfllculty. But I (.ans tl hink that the difficulty can be over- gcriptu ome. Just as the book is a book etj that f one idea, it is also a book of one though !od. Notice those words, "Which thread e promised afore." Here we have j8 ex{: statement of the inspiration of the caiVar> tible. Paul declares that God told liis good news about himself to the i rophets. It was the same God who I 1,1 iiy ad spoken with him. The same sons!od who spoke to Isaiah, Mlcah, erary' ' Izekiel, Joseph, Moses and a host of "ut its thers. "es 'n And thus behind tie manv pans D*' , ? . himself lands the one God, revealing him- w elf at different times, and in dif- , ' , . . he beei erent ways, but ever the same, ves, , . , . .oustrat erday, toduy and forever. , , . , . , vided a () niv triends, if you are ever puzled, look for the one God in the Head took. See him as iu* guided the Society ither of the faithful, as he walked Presbyl itli Finocli, with Noah, \Vith Moses, This itli Joshua. Hear him as he address peaks to Samuel, to Isaiah, t o priate [eliemlah, and then let all of your terson. oubts vanish before the thought society uit lie is the same God all through preside r^you to ih??r?661cs an olb-^askwatA ttord Uath m of fat past U a tWihj tod rj and a mtdle, Imp vsibiJH //trbtrf/(bufirkin. ml ttctfcr quits. It apes c icr it WorM, the harder I TO5 0J SllCCASS comtf ITO#! ggL.fl ^WB ^g0gggaWL<BM RST NATIONAL BA1 Lancaster, S. C. ED STATES DEPOSITORY. , that Jesus of Nazareth was n of God .that he was Gol, it he was God manifest- I in di. is that all the story? That indeed be glorious enough, >re is more. Paul Fays that ivas demonstrated to be the God in power by a resurreeam the dead. Where there is irrection, there must he a And death in the case of Son meant far more for the ban an ordinary death would, uldition to the wonder'ul fact humanity and the deity of we have this additional fact, e one win h gives the vhole r the good news of God its e aail. So, I might sum up r our sins, and that he ros** IC uvau IU lllclltt? nil' * I l"ci ' ?1 (M e vaail. So, I might s i:u up lole matter thus, "Tim nible story of God's redemptive or humanity." Kou wonder then, that Paul tern, or rather it, the Holv res? Are you at all r.stonishthere is but one idea, nut one t running like a crimson through it all, and that idea iressed by the one word, '? brethren, the Word of God 5 interesting for other renIt may attruct us on ts lltor national, or historical side, supreme interest to humanity the fact that it contains a Ion made by God, concerning ' and that revelation has to ith the fact that, in his Son, ime one with humanity, denied there his deity, and prol full salvation for all men. Iiof.ini ?kn 1 I -11 October 10, 1014 at the Lerian church, Lancaster S. ('. eloquent and well delivered i was followed by an approprayer by Rev. W. S. PatThe business meeting of the was then opened by the vice lit. Rev. W. S. Patterson, notion of Rev. H. R. MurchlffFTj / ^ rfieck. Lts loss or destrucl the money. Its receipt tall l>e glad to have you as STATEMENT OF T] THE VARMERS BANK atea at Lancaster, S. C., at tbe RESOURCES. >ans and DlscounU $165,645.43 ferd rafts 1,844.06 lrnlture and Fixtures 2,875.00 ite from Banks and Bankers . . 87,213.98 irrency 3,067.00 ?ld 1,047.50 Ivor and Other Minor Coin .... 497.51 leeks and Cash Items 766 <>9 TotAl >212,960.6 V 'ATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. County of Lancaster?ss. Before me came W. H. Mtllen, i 10, being duly sworn, says tha rat is a true condition of said id bank. Sworn to and subscribed befoi JOHN C irrect?Atteat: W. T. Gregory Dire< trmers rank & . T. GREGORY, President R. T. I1KATY, Jr., r i vOcmon^^^ tieftsl I a J^finihon but net a B sy. S<r\4ing mad&mf fl V \Us art mmhj ttu KaJf m Mtorhitwfor >>cm. t Work* atu th* lar | hai?e tVi? S *K, I 3ank^ | son. Dr. Thayer was elected a life member of the society. The secrei tary, Mr. W. T. Illackinon then read I the minutes of the last annual meeting. Mr. John H. I'oag, the treasurer, read his own report as well as that the depositary, Mr. George W. Williams. All of these reports were approved. After a few remarks by Revs. Murcliison and Patmarks by Keys. Murchison and Patterson and Mr. W. T. Thomson, a collection amounting to $33.75 was tiiken mi An. Patterso? alluded v.-ry affectionately to I)r. J. H. Boldridge. the president, whose absence was felt very much, lie sp jko of hi* interest in the society and of Mrs pleasure in its meetings. Mr. it. ?. Beaty moved that Rev. Mr. Patterson ne elected president. This was made unanimous, as was also the election of the other officers. Ruv. II. P. Murchison was elected vke president and nil the other officers were te dected and the same executive ?cmm'tttc elected to ser.*e another >ter. After the sinAlns of another bynr.n. Dr. Thayer pronounced the benediction and the 13)1 meeting of tho Lancaster Bible Society was brought to a close. i j SEE 1 W(fc)DWARD ^-4u>r Plumbing t aiWl Elcctncal Work PHONE :??? I i ; Remit By | Check I ! X and you will both add o dignity to your businews and save money ?|> as well. Besides, V there is safety in a ion does not mean the loss V ?% can never be denied. We ^ i one of our depositors. UK CONDITION ftp & TRUST COMPANY, close of business June 30, 1914. LIABILITIES. V Captal Stock Paid In $50,000.00 X Surplus Fund. . .. 1,500.00 V Undivided Profits, less Current Ex- JL pensee and Taxes f paid 8,261.01 A Individual Deposits Subject to Check 64,668.71 V Time Certificates of & Deposit 38,806.84 JL Cashier's Checks... 41.61 V k Bills payable, In eluding Certl- X cates for Money Borrowed 66,000.00 ? Total $313,>68.67 X Cashier of the above named bank, T ,t the above and foregoing state- jT bank, as shown by the books of V W. H. MILLKN. e me this 4th day of July, 1114. o RAWrORD, Notary Public. A , W. P. Robinson, <V. P. Bennett, Jl stors. TRUST COMPANY ? W. H. MILLKN, Cashier. V Assistant Cashier. /