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?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
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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
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an olb-^askwatA ttord Uath
m of fat past U a tWihj tod
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, 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.,
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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
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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.
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