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The Abbev ille Press and Banner. 1 '18 ;|g by hugh^wilson" Abbeville, s. c.,wednesday, November 3. 1897. established 1844J FwH A With their store JS of Gene iik 1 8 f\ T A very nice line of 5c ( fj\ yard. See our line of 10c fi iiV Mixed Goods. Standard E fiz yard. Flannels, all colors. rfi\ cheap. Canton Flannels w Jk\ JEANS and JEANS J 2? IN SHOES we bave a SHOES we have a good lie fi\ A full line of HATS oi Has 4s /i\ We bave new tilings in ili ^are we l)ave a n'ce slock '1J pots. We have j list added /ii kinds in stock. Every sto\ TABLETS and WIU'I T i?C In Groceries we are full 'I? in>; any. Lois of Canned C Bacon. A fine llio Coffee ] ily tierce of Muscavado Molass W Lots of Bagging and Tie9. ' I W.B A Success Real and L v Sermon by the Late Rev. Robert Likewise also the chief priests mocking said amo the scribes, Let Christ the King of Israel descend that we may see and believe. St. Mark, xv. 81, < Nothing succeeds like success. So th and declares, and in accordance with this \ The world demands of every man who seei one thing, that he be a successful man; the only this one thing, but this one thing it nev world is ready and waiting and eager to crc achieved success. It has its text-books ar dustry and perseverance, by following whic success, and be rewarded by its favor, the great apostle of success in this coi Franklin, and to his maxims of Poor Rich; example of successful men in every walk c world bestows everything, all that it has, learns the lesson, who achieves success. ? world has does it keep back from those wh business,, science, art, and literature. But little, has nothing, for him who fails. To crosses the stage of existence the world ap successful, or unsuccessful. On the first it vor; on the second, its indifference and n do not mention this fact to criticise, or This exact meting out of rewards only to th cessful lies at the basis of our commercia progress; it is that which gives value to ii tegrity and perseverance. It is a part of tl and constitution of things in which we all si we could not change if we would. I do not mention, then, this recognitic -r 1.1 ?i u. Ul illume uuiy wtiu die s>uiA,esaiui LL? ^unuc tion it because I wish to speak to you of a of success, that this world does not recogn so long as the world remains what it is, the not understand, and upon which therefore i wards. I have been speaking to you of th? the world recognizes, because I wish to s that success which the world does not recoj is of greater worth, which is real and lastin I have said that the world applies to test, successful, or unsuccessful. We have day an account of the application of thi Christ. "Likewise also the chief priests among themselves with the scribes, Let Ch Israel descend now from the cross that we i lieve." These chief priests and scribes who is hangfng on the cross has had a mai of wonderful works, but it is all about to be cause he does not save himself, and they s in the words of the text, Crown that lifi achievements which you have lived with c by saving yourself and coming down from we will accept you; yours will be a life achievement, of the grandest success, and ruler and king. 1 'Let Christ the King of Isr from the cross that we may see and belie; this was a genuine offer; while they did n< + /-> +V>o r-Vio 1 lonrrp VtnA T-Trlr>nf> cr down from the cross, they would have acc< as a spiritual Saviour, that they could not king. Had Christ come down from the saved Himself, the world would have haste a successful man. Christ did not accept He did not save Himself and come down The world had therefore no opportunity of as a temporal sovereign; the world applie test successful, or unsuccessful?and He fa Therefore, as the world views it, Christ wa ful man; because He was not a king and s over nations, because He accomplished not or art or literature. But was the life of C ful? Tested by the world's principle, it aj is this test a final one? Is there not a succ lacking in all the elements of what the woi and yet is greater than the sum of these eler ^ * A f) Rarksdalt greatly enlarged and impro ral Merchandise are ready t . . . bargains in all lines. . ?^>DRY GOODS. Calicoes. 5c Outings, 5c Homespun. A great vari gured Worsted, the best in the city. Sattiue rills at 5c per vard. Sea Island and Heavy Hon Twilled Red, all wool flannels, for 12 l-2c. Th ay uown. Come and see them. L'ANTS. KEARSEYS. an all wool pants good bang up stock "of all kinds, from the heaviest to le. all kinds and styles. TINWARE. ^3 this line and have nearly everything a person at lower prices than formerly. Something n( and gotten iu a line of the famous "New Lee" ( 'e guaranteed, and cheap, too. 'IXG PAPER. Lots of these goods for school GROCERIES, I up, with lots of good things, cheap. Give us a ioods, Peaches, Crackers, Snow Klakt? Cracke 10 lbs for the Si.00. rsew Crop N. O. Syrup to c les, the very fiuest. Bran and Cotton Seed Meal When wanting anything in General Merchaud Respectfully, >. Barksdale Jesus Christ ap lasting. tifie discoverer He something was achieved, . _ fields in which -"e6, it was achievec ng themselves with at all, and in a now from the cross difficult, the fit its offer of succ e world believes on the cross; I )rinciple it acts. Failure as His cs its favour but means more, is : world demands er man who liv er remits. The ever brilliant a iwn him who has Christ today is id its lives of in- peror who livec :h one may win victorious gene It points us to legislation that intry, Benjamin today than the ard, and to the that old religio if life. And the scribes, are, in upon him who fering to receiv Nothing that this cross. Why is 0 win success in than its success the world has not a success every man who moral and relig plies this test? world apart fro : bestows its fa- the world than eglect. Now, I ways been, and to condemn it. er fnd influenc ose who are sue- as the world es 1 and industrial the world's gre idustry and in- Bonaparte on c le present order lemagne, and hare, and which what did the ci Jesus alone fou in by the world ions would die mn it. l men- down from the success, a kind to become one ize, that indeed a success, He c : world, it can- parison with wl it bestows no re- as nothing, it success which But once ? peak to you of that Christ exe: jnize, but which considers as e g- memory so trar every man the other men? I in our text to- in art or scieuc s test to Jesus or experience, > mocking said which in all the irist the King of of that moral p may see and be- which He has said, This man from their sin rvelous life, full How does Chri: : of no avail, be- the ages? Chr ;aid to our Lord make men pur? e of marvelous Himself a mon omplete success ence, an influe the cross; then trust God and : of the fullest gious man. M you will be our no other is po ael descend now ever know a m; re." I suppose those around hi ot expect Christ ence, then, tha >, had He come comes from Hi: spted Him, not You may ; do, but as their through what c cross, had He ing, that this p ned to hail Him 0f men comes the challenge; clares is Christ from the cross. this influence is accepting Him have been save :d to Christ the "are being sav iled to stand it. ous and holy, t s not a success- . into the Image tatesman ruling fluence upon t\ hing in science, ments, the divi :hrist unsuccess- through the go spears so. But it comes throuj :ess that may be anj best phase; "Id calls success, character of H nents combined? , P, Da J ! l/J. I| ved and a full stock A o show great T II*1 iii I ^ /AS ety of Outings from 5 to 10c per s, Wool Henriettas, Serges aud aeepun, all yard wide, at 5c per ili e best medicated at 25c ; all other s, for 25c yard. i|i i the best. IN CHILDREN'S jJJ i might want. Also in Agate /|i iw?COPPER BOTTOM CofTe? ;ook Stoves ana nave an sizes ana w folk9. Also Pens, Inks, Pencils. iK chance on FLOUR when need- ijv rs, Kit Mackerel, Lard, Haras, ome in a few days. Just in?a /A\ delivered to any part of the city, ilw ise come and see us. W ! & Co. | >peals to the world neither as author, scien, statesman, or man of wealth; but was not that is more than all of these? His success not in finance, or art, or in any of those the world is ready to applaud success, but 1 in a field which the world does not regard field wherein success is most rare and most ild of morals and religion. The world made :ess to Christ, ?but He refused it. He died iis life seemed to close in absolute failure, life was declared to be, Jesus Christ to-day more, to the world than the life of any othred at His time, or at any other time, hownd successful that life may have been. Jesus more to the world than the Romau em1 when He died; He is more than all the rals of Rome, more than all the valuable we owe to Rome. He is more to the world art and philosophy of Greece, more than n of Judaism whose officials, the priests and the words of our text, taunting Him and of e Him, if He will but come down from the ; this? Christ is more to the world to-day ;ful men, because He has given the world such as they gave it, but in His life a ;ious success and achievement, such as the m it has never known. Christ is more to. all its successful men, because He has alis to-day, the most tremendous moral powe the world has ever known. Not a success teems it, but a success before which that of at men fades into nothing. Said Napoleon )ne occasion: "Alexander, Caesar, Charmyself founded great empires, but upon eations of our genius depend? Upon force, nded His empire upon love and to-day mill tor him." Jesus Christ, tnen, did nor come cross; He did not accept the world's offer of its successful men. But He did achieve loes exercise an influence and power in comtiich what the world recognizes as snccess is Lgain, what is the secret of this influence rcises? Lacking everything that the world ssential to success, why does His life and iscend that of any other man, that of all have said the success of Jesus Christ is not e, in any department of human knowledge but is in that moral and religious power i ages, He exercises. What is the secret ower which Christ exercises, that influence to-day to make men better, to save them s, to enable them to lead an upright life? st exercise such a power as that through all icf r>vprri<;p<; a moral nowcr. a Dower to ; and. true and upright,, because He was il man; Christ exercises a religious influnce upon men to make them believe in God, love Him, because He was Himself a reliy friends, no other explanation is adequate, ssible, no other is conceivable. Did you an to exercise an influence for good upon im who was not himself good? The influt Christ exercises today upon the lives of men msolf. from what He is, His character. isk, How does Christ exert this influence, :hannels? Allow me to say, then, in passower which is brought to bear upon the lives through the Church, which the Bible de's Body, the company of those upon whom ; being exerted, who are not those, then, who d, but those, as the Bible expresses it, who ed;" who therefore are not perfectly righte)ut are becoming so, arc being transformed of Christ. I answer further that this inle lives, of men comes through the sacranely appointed means of grace, and it comes spels, the records of the life of Christ; and rVi mnfiom r*ivili7atinn whir.h in its highest 5 W* V*V* WA A* V* ' w y .. ^ " O s, is the product of the religious life and im who hung on the cross. The success then which Christ achieved is not which the world applauds and rewards, buty is that x is of the greatest and most lasting worth; it is a su two-fold; first in Himself, He was a perfect moral an i limniic man sprnnHlv in 11? Hp rpnrnH11r.es this r.hars Now, my friend, allow me to ask, are you a succ< man? Have your efforts in life been crowned with sue With success as the world^ counts success?wealth fame? If so, I have nothing to say that will detract 1 that will lesson what you have, what you have been to accomplish. The gifts the world has to bestov worth our efforts, our honest efforts to win. I have i ing, then, to say against that which you have accompli: but allow me to ask, Is that prosperity that has cro' your efforts all? Is it all that your life is to bring f is it to be the sole fruit of your stay on this earth tTAii?? 11 frt mtv?rvltr 4* rv nn n f if nrAenanfir n nrl to if f A f ^UUi 1A1G LU Win L illO ^JL 1 Ly, ClilVJ to U LV 1 that other success of which I have been speaking? me tell you of a man who was successful* as the > counts success, a man who lived at the time whei Lord was crucified, when His life seemed to end in fa That man, who was emperor of Rome when our Lord stood at the very pinnacle of human greatness. Her not the city of Rome, not Italy, but the world, for 1 embraced the then known world. While to him livi Rome, divine honour and worship were being paid thrc out the confines of the vast empire, Jesus Christ wa iner on the cross. Yet to-dav that Man Who died o cross, Who failed as the world counts failure, you and revere; but that other man who succeeded, succ* beyond the wildest dreams of fancy?you could not te his name without referring to some work on history, friends, you who are successful, you who are strivii win success, allow me to say this, That which you won honorably and honestly, that which you may be tined to win of life's rewards, however great it may b low me to say that it is not all of life and of living. Roman emperor had all of life's gifts; Christ had nc them, but He had something that that emperor di have. See to it that while success crowns your life do not fail of that success which Christ had, the de\ ment, the achievement of moral character. But again, perhaps my friend, you have not suco in life. Perhaps you have not won the gifts andre1 that life has to bestow. Perhaps the world has pu down as a failnre. If so, the probability is that your a failure, for the world is very accurate, is very imp; in its judgments. It does not often place the wrea the wrong brow, or fail to place it where it is dese Let us accept then the world's verdict that your lif failure. The world has also decided that the life of ( was a failure. But we have also seen that while- fro point of view of the world Christ was a failure, yet be of what He was, His.character, He has made the gra achievement in the history of our race. My friend, 1 ask this: That life of yours, at one with the life of < in failure, does it partake at all of that real success 1 belongs to the life of Christ ? the success of characti moral achievement? Has your life of failure develoj ??" olxirootni-) unita h/mi on linnocf- On A manK yvju unainave j'uu maug au huu^jl awu uiuiiij against adverse circumstances? Has your long sti sweetened and purified your life, made you more uns< more thoughtful for others, more conscious of yoi pendenceon God? In a word, has your life of failure fied and deepened your character? If so, while you in Christ's failure, you share also in His success, world's verdict is true?your life is a failure; but I tel at the same time it is a grand success. But ?perhaps your life of failure has not develo{ you that achievement, that moral success, of which I been speaking. Perhaps failure and adversity hav< embittered you; you feel like rebelling against fat life. You, perhaps, have lost hope for the future; faifh in man anH in C,r\A ic waII nicrh jrnnp. If SO. 1 ~ ? es" o ? tell you of One who suffered adversity as you perhap incapable of suffering, upon whose devoted hea poured out the wrath of God; Who, being innocent, a condemned criminal. Yet out of all the adversit disaster that came upon Christ, there sprang perfect p joy, love of man, faith in God, faith in man. My i if your life has been a failure in the eyes of the worlc to it that- it is not a moral failure. Make that a sity that has overwhelmed you minister to the de^ ment of your character, to your moral good. S Christ; and Christ exists to-day, and the Church is i world to-day to enable you to do this very thing, that among all the changes and chances of this mortal life become meet to be "partaker of the inheritance < saints in light." pun wwvtw w \ A M ^ ... 1897! Xli 111 I 0 rA r\UR LINE OF STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES this seasc & v has been carefully selected and every department Is brim fu ^ on tbe markets or tne woriu. ^ Canned Goods Department. . . . ^ In tblR department you will find a great varlet 0 and suited lo the wants of the most fastidious. 0 Fruits and Confectioneries. . . These are "Our Specialties" and "we" are "Hi tempted to buy. Fruits In great variety, from I ported confectionery. J Attention, Ladies. . . A We can supply your tables for Breakfast, Dinn< J be both tempting and palaUble. ^ Our Carriage and Buggy Reposistory. . .' ^ Here you And all kinds of vehicles In all the ne of Harness, Whips, Lap itobes and Bueey Urab ^ make prices cheaper than ever. .ST1JTEBAI Abbeville County for these celebrated wagons. r\.,, Qoloc I iworv/ anrl FftftH Stables. ^ vui uaivgj k-iwij Id our handsome new stables we have a complete the time. Also all modern conveniences for the i stock of Horses, Mules and Brood Mares to be fot outs furnished od short notice, day or night, wltt Our City Buss will meet every train on both road ^ Coal I Coal ! Wood ! Wood ! . . We handle the best Coal, Hard and Soft. Also short notice delivered at your door. BellevlDg we can please you we cordially Invite an Inspection of W Sept. 8,1897. %%%%>%% p Kiififlii. 1 _i. 01/1 fWtifinflf.An nf Pooriotrntinn ICLCI. jssful are Void?Everybody Must :cess? Register, i ; a The Fooks of Registration will be Opened rom> on the First Mondav In December next ; able and ^ept Open for Three. Snccesslve V are Days for the Registration of Voters noth- Entitled to Registration unter the Conshed; Btitution?For the Information of the vvned People Attention is Called to the Folorth follng Proyisions of the New Law, App js proved the Fifth Day of March, 1898. oil of rnHE BOOKS OF REGISTRATION SHALL an vi ^ be opene(j by the Boards oa the first Lgt Monday In April, 1896, at the Court House in leach County, and kept open for at least six world consecutive weeks. They shall be opened a rrrt in of tha Pah rf ITmioa /\ n (Via A oof ILfAn/lo (TO [1 OUT In June, Juif, August and September, A. D., i 1896, and kTSpt open continually for at least llUre. one week in each of said months. They shall j- j be closed thirty days before the general elecaiea> tion in 1896. After general election in 1896, the hIpH Books of Registration shall be opened on the U1CU> first Monday of each month at the Court ?ome House and kept open for three successive days In each month until thirty days before the ing at election In 1896, when they shall be closed un?, til the said general election shall have taken )Ugtl- place. The offices and books most be kept i open from 9 o'clock in the forenoon until 8 .S ay- o'clock in the afternoon. The Board ol Registration is the Judge of " i n iiic qualifications of all applicants for reglBunw tratlon up to January 1st, 1898. Up to Jano* khuw ary every male citizen of this State aeded and of the United Slates, twenty-one years of " age, who is not an idiot, is not insane, is not ill IT16 a pauper supported nt the public expense, , j- and is not confined in any publlo prison, and My who has not been convicted of bnrglary, ar- ^ , son, obtaining goods or money under false Ilg 10 pretenses, perjury, forgery, robbery, bribery, . 3 Viovo adultery, wife beating, housebreaking, recelvnavt: lDg gtoien goods, breach of trust with fraudu? r1p?;- leat? intent, sornicatlon, sodomy, Incest, as' sault with Intent to ravish, miscegenation, , v 0 p1_ larceny, or crimes against the election laws, ' and who shall have been a resident in this The State two years, (except ministers in charge f yf organized churches and teachers of pnbllc me Ol schools, and they after six months residence In the State.} a resident In the County lor six d not months, and in tbe polling precinct four , vrm months, and who can read any Section in the V '3 i JMJU Constitution of 1895, or can anderBtand and relnn- explain any section of said Constitution " when read to him by the registration officer or officers shall be entitled to registration and < V , become a elector upon application lor such eeded registration. If any person has been convlct, ed of any pf tbe crimes above-mentioned, a iVaraS pardon of the Governor removes the dlsqual. lflcation. It you In case any minor who will become twentyi:f one years of age after tbe closing of the Books 111c is 0f Reglstratratlon and before tbe election, irtial and 18 otherwise qualified to register, makes application under oatb showing he la quallth on fled 10 register, the Boards shall register such applicant before the closing of tbe books. irved. Any person whose qualifications as an elector will be completed after the closing of tbe e IS a Registration Books but before tbe next elecrtimaf tloD, shall have the right to apply for and se* ^nriSt cure a registration certificate at any time t u ? within sixty days Immediately preceding the ui inc closing of the Registration Books, upon an j cause application under oatb to the facts entitling " ?, him tosucb registration. ndest The registration of voters must be by poll- v ' Ing precincts. Tbere must be a Book of Reget me istrutlon for each polling precinct, that Is for . each township, or parish, or city, or twon of ^nriSt less than five thousand ihhabltants, or ward of cities of more than five thousand lnbablu/hirn .?.? i? iha minnr irti&vt* IOUW, ?iauu C1CUW1 UlUoi fv?v *M *MW _ pr nf precinct in which he resides. If there fe more ' . v than one voting place In the polling precinct, )ed in the elector may vote at any voting place de?p , lgnated on the registration certificate. The ' fight Boards must designate In the registration ? , certificate the voting place In the polling pre"Uggle clnct at which the elector Is to vote. If there i? i Is more than one voting place In the polling. vifl -insn, precincts, the Boards shall designate on the j _ certificate the voting place selected by the "> Lit uc- elector. nnrj_ Old certificates of registration are void. Evr ery man who may desire to exercise the right share 10 vote mB8t aPP'y tor Registration. The J- D- CARWILE, ! vou s. a. BOLES, ^ ' W. A. LANIER. Board of Supervisors of Registration. *J )ed 111 ? .hbut A Complete and Full ^ e and '*3? STOCK OF THE CELEBRATED your e; amree Metropolitan brand of liieS Faints d was 0F died tau\T TTTPAfi &r. fft. y and o vim juu?? , >eace, always on hand at the friend jm I #M l 'dver- City Drug Store. | / elop, DRICES IN ONE GALLON CANS by the O did ? single can ?1.25. A liberal discount to ? 4-U^ painters using large quantities. in the F Oct. 25, 1898. tf yOU, IJICHAKD GANTT, Is now prepared to do ' mav " al* *ork ln bls department In the best ' J manner and at reasonable charges. Monthly 01 the customers shaving, hair cutting and shampooing 81 per month. Rasors honed and pnt n the D98t condition for 25 cents each. Hill Jb Km I 11111 UL UVJIUi J ^ in surpasses any stock heretofore kept by us. Our Fall Stock 11" of tne "best goods" of the latest and newest brands placed i y of all the leading brands. Everything will be fresh and new ?adquarters." Call and see our 1 Fall Display''and you will be the leading markets of the world. Lowreys & Blankers lm jr and Tea with a bountiful spread of "Good Things" that will ^ west designs, both in design and flnl-h. Also a splendid line rellas. This department Is well stocked and we can and will ItKK and MIMJI HX WAGO.VN. Wc are sole agents for X You know what they are. i system of "Water Works" furnishing fresh running water all comfort and pleasure of our pHtrons. We carry the largest ind in upper Carolina. Saddle Horses and all kinds of Tourn1 careful and polite drivers. DAY hihI XIVIIT TRAINS. Is day and night. Green and Dry Wood,and can furnish you in any quantity on our stock and solicit a full share ol your patronage. A. M. HILL & SONS. Z J V ?