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"W7J Y*A Abbeville tSY W. W. & W. E. BRADLEY. ABBEVILLE, 8. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 1912. 7 ESTABLISHED 1844 State F i OPENING SESSIOF NIGHT IN THE Able Spccchcs Made by L< The State Federation of Women's Clubs was called to order in th?> Opera House, Monday nlffht at o'clock. The fol lowing program was adhered to strictly : PROGRAMME. OPENING SESSION *J:00 p. m.?Form d Opening of Fourteenth Annual Convention, Ope: a House. Convention called to order, by l'rssident, Mrs. Julius M. Visanska. invocation?isev. luuis isio .v, oi auub- i ville. | We.cmie to Abbeville?Dr. C. C. imbrell,! Mayor. Welcome on Behalf of CitvV. Cluuwomen, Mis. M. T. Coleman, rrosident Civic Club, Abl wiile. Response?Hr?. :.*...:.uer Long, Rock Hill. Vocal Solo? "Song of The Soul," Joseph Carl Brell; Miss June Marie Minshall. Fraternal Greetings? From United Daughters of the Con federacy, M. C. E. Graham, Pres. S. C Division U. D. C. Frqpi Georgia Clubwoman: Mrs. H. C. White, Athens. Ga., Pres. Georgia. Federation of Women's Clubs. Intermezzo en Octaves, Leschitizky, Miss Ada McMillan. President's Annual Report, Mrs. Julius Jdj. Visanska, Charleston, S. C. Announcements. Informal Reception. It is not a mere compliment to the fair sox nor empty praise accorded our own or our visiting ladies to say that the speeches and papers were exceptionally able, hap \ ABBEVILLE 31 UN Where the Sessions of Feriei I be held tl pily adapted to the occasion aud interest ing throughout. New light was thrown j on the purposes of the federation iu the | report of the retiring President, Mrs. Julius M. Yisanskn, and in the speech of Georgia's Federation President, Mrs. H. C. White, of Athens, Ga. The South Carolina lx.c rlirnii .rl <urrk.-L- I... throwing the weight. of its influence j against legislation thought to lie injurious to public welfare and in using its inlluenet to promote such legislation as is l'or tin moral uplift of society. Funds of the federation are being used to maintain jx?>r deserv ing girls at AVinthrop College and this feature of Federation work is be ing annually enlarged. One of the practical features of the work in Georgia is the building and niainta'u y-".. - MRS. JULIUS 31. VISAS SKA, President ol' South Carolina Federation ol Women's Clubs. ~ ,.< ?..i. * !./> wMtnfnin /liefri/?fc nf 1U& VI OCUWia III fcllC illUUIil/Uia vuowiviw v* the State. Mrs. White's address was practical above all things and full of good* suggestions in federation work. In view of the fact that the entire pro grain was a pleasure and delight to those present, it is perhaps not improper to make special mention of the address of the retiring President, Mrs. Julius M. Visan ka; this for the reason that it was full of suggestion for the future course of the Federation, originating in her experience in the service. These suggestions betoken the able executive that she has been and her loyalty to her successor. Mrs. Visan ka's address as a literary production was thoroughly onjoyed. A feature ol the meeting Monday night was an informal reception hold on the stage after the regular program. At the clone of the exercises, the large ^deration, * 4 HELD MONDAY OPERA HOUSE. Deal and Visiting; Members. stape curtain which served as a bafk ground for those on the stage, was raised, bringing into view some ten or more beautiful Abbeville girls dressed as Japa nese, and posiug in tableau under and .. nriMn rnv..n<1 TonnviAcn linihrolln nvcii <i niuvp opiciau va^/auuov uiuwiwww. The effect was that or a pretty Japanese garden, and the pretty girls were to serve tea in oriental style. The tableau feature soon faded when the stage was occupied by hundryds of ladies and gentlemen who wished to meet the visiting ladies. Abbeville is in gala attire for the recep tion of her guests. Around the central gra?,s plot in which her monument and hev fountains are located has been drawn a line of eloctric lights drooping graceful ly between posts set some twenty feet apart. Lights attached to the top of the monument droop gracefully to the four corners. In one of the urns a flowering cactus, the property of Mrs. Richard Sondley, has been placed. It is the most magnilicent flower we have ever seen, with its hundreds of wax-like blooms, and measuring perhaps six feet in circumfer ence. It is regretted that the Press and Ban ner had gone to press too early to give account of the entertainment for Tuesday evening. As a matter of information we print the ^program for tho remainder of the meeting. Wednesday Morning Session. 9:30 a. m.?Minutes of Tuesday After noon Session. Report of Department of Forestry and Civics, Mrs. A. F. McKissick, Chair man, Greenwood. Reports of 23 Civic Clubs: Abbeville, Anderson, Bishopville, Charleston, ICIPAL BUILDING ation of Women's Clubs will his week. Cheraw, Columbia, Dillon, Edgefield, Florence, Hartsvi le, Johnston, Kings iree, Marion, Lake City, Mayesvlile, Orangeburg, Pickens, Port Royal, Statesburg, Shan don, Suininerville, Walterporo, Winnsboro. 11:00 a. m.?Report of Civil Service Re form Committee, Mrs. M.L. Parler, Chairman, Wedgelield. 111:15 a. in.?Report of Reciprocity De partment, Miss Louise B. Poppenheiui, Chairman, Charleston. 11:30 a. ni.?Report of Domestic Science Department, Mrs. L. T. Nichols, Chair man, Chester. 12:00 M.?Rej^Hfof Health Department, Mrs. H. \V. Beall, Chairman, Sumter. Report of Greenwood Hospital Associa tion. MKS. M. T. COLE31AN, President oi Abbeville Civie Club. Address?Medical Inspection in the Schools, Dr. E. A. Hines, Secretary S. C. M. A., Seneca. 12:30 p. m.?Report of Field Secretury or i Endowment for South Carolina, Mrs L. W. Gilland, Kingstree. 12,40 p. m.?Report of Committee or President's Recommendations, Mrs, I O.O.Fletcher, Chairman, Greenville 1:00 p. m.?Report of Committee on Con stitutional Revision, Mrs. W. B. Bur ney, Chairman, Columbia. 1:10 p m.?Report of Committee on Reso lutions, Mrs. J. W. Allen, Chairman, Spartanburg. 1:20 P. M.?Announcements. 1:30-8:00 P. M.?Luncheon, tendered bj the Abbeville Music Club. i ^ _i MKS: W. W. BRADLEY, Chairman ot Reception Com mittee. Afternoon Session. 3:00 p. m. Minutes of Morning Session. The San Francisco Biennial. Biennial Transportation?5 Minutes Talk, Mr. R. M. Pierpont, Represent in#? Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway System. 8,30 p. in.?Federation Conditions and Outlook. General Discussion. New Business. 4:00 p. m.?Final Report of Credential Committee and Final Roll Call. 4:15 p. m.?Election and Installation of Officers. Wednesday Evening 9:00-11:00 P. II.?Reception, tendered by ! Civic Club of Abbeville, at Residence of Mr. and Mrs. M. T. Colemah. IJJtv. (J. (J. Ijr A.U liKr^JLLi, itiayur, who in a short aud appropri ate Address welcomed the Federation to Abbeville. MRS. J. D. KERR, Vice-President Abbeville Music 1 Club. Mm \e? Noliedule for Seaboard. No. 33 due 1.19 p. m. Southbound. [ No. 63 due 4 <0 p. m. Southbound No. 41 due '2.56 a. m. Southbound. No. 32 due 6.U6 p. m. Northbound. No. 52 due 12.56 p. m. Northbound. Mo. 38 due 2.08 a. in. Northbound. The best candy?Huylers?at Speed's . drug store. 1 If you will inspect the houses around . town painted with Devoe paint you will ( have no trouble deciding what you will < put on yours. It's the kind that last$ and \ looks well. For sale at Speed's. I That Ciuco cigar of Speed's is more pop- ' ular than ever. It just can't be beat. For tired, aching feet use Tiz?for sale : at Speed's. 1 Varnish stains, wall finishes, brushes, J ?fcc., at Speed's drug store. < ? The Fourth C SERMON BY REV. H. The following sermon on the Fourth 1 Commandment was preached in the Abbe- j ville Presbyterian Church on the Lord's j Day morning, April 28, 1912. Toe Scrip- < tural truths set forth have awakened con- j "J A 4-W~ WA/..?AOf /%#'! SlUOraDltJ lUbei CBL, turn m LUC icqucoi Ui the Editors, the sermon has been furnish- i ed in full. "Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy; six days shall thou labor ana do all thy work; but the Sabbath day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God; in it though shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that 13 within thy gates; Ifor In six days the Lord made neaven land earth, the sea and all that In them Is, and rested the seventh day; wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it. ?Ex. 20:8-11. It is always unfortunate when the lan guage used in religious conversation or the written creed of the Church does not conform to the language of our English Bible. It is always permlssable in writing i book for the author to define a term as tie intends to use it throughout the pages Df his book, and if he adheres consistently to his own definition of the term, he Is within his rights. But if he happens to j use a word well-established in meaning in i different sense from that usually receiv ed, he makes himself liable to be misun derstood. From this no serious conse quences may follow, except the book be on the subject of morals or religion. In all our conversation and writing on spiritual things, we ought to conform our language to the terminology of the Bible, unless there is a clear mistranslation, or unless the meaning of | the words has changed in the three centuries since the King James version was made. I have spoken to you about the use of the words Church of Christ and Kingdom of Christ. The Bible clearly distinguishes between these, uses them consistently throughout, and yet to the majority to day, these terms are synonymous. In the average mind they are one and the same, and are ,so used. As a result, the whole matter of God's plan concerning the course of time Is unknown, and totally false no tions of missions everywhere prevail. On the other hand, by not changing the I an cruage of Scripture in the case of the word jdamnation as used in 1 Cor. 11:29 many other false notions -are believed. The word damnation In the verse three hundread years ago meant what we now mean by judgment or condemnation, and not endless final perdition. We have called attention .to this princi ple at some length because It is a matter allectlng vitauy tne unaereuuiuiuK ui mo fourth commandment. This command- ' ment begins, "Remember the Sabbath ; day to keep it holy;" and then the rest of the commandment defines how it is to be J kept holy and why. It was the seventh i day after six days of labor. This was call- ; ed the Sabbath. Now I find many about : here speak of the first day of the week as ] the Sabbath. Search the Bible through, . and you will find no warrant for it any- , where in its pages. Men have thus taken a Scriptural word with a perfectly defi nite meaning and applied it to another use.; If the use to which it were applied were. 1 consistent with Scripture, no harm would i' be done, but unfortunately men hearing ( talk about the Sabbath and then looking ' into the Bible to find out about It, Imagine { that what is there said about the Sabbath applies to the first day of the week, and as j a. result, a totally false notion prevails ' with regard to this commandment. The Sabbath first appears ln.Scripture as the day of God's rest in the finished work J of creation. For 2500 years there is not a single ^mention of it in Scripture after i this. "VVe ,are ?told In ;Nehemlah 9:13-14 1 that the Sabbath was revealed at Mt. Si- < nai, and this important passage fixes be- < ?~?1 ?ll 14- lira a imlrnAvn fn mfl.1 J )UI1U Uil UQ/il tuabiu n?o uunuv.... vw .MN. till then. At Sinai God made it part of the ) decalogue, and invested it with the nature of a slsrn between Jehovah and Israel, a perpetual reminder of their separation to God. Ex. $1:13-17. The manner of its ob servance was that of complete rest, and by God's express command a man was put to death for gathering sticks on that day. Apart from the daily sacrifices, it was not a day of religious worship. In connection with the seven annual feasts, it played an Important part, but the seventh day Sab bath recurring 52 times a year was never for special sacrifices, worship or any rell ?:ious ordinance whatever. You can veri y this statement by making a thorough study of the Old Testament. It was sim ply and entirely a day of rest, a humane provision Jor man's needs and beasts' needs. If the first day of the week were intend ed to take the place exactly of the seventh day (if the week, then we certainly misuse ana abuse It from almost every stand point. The Christian first day, called in the Scriptures, the Lord's day, never the Sab bath. Deroetuates in the dispensation of grace that one seventh of our time should be kept for sacred purposes, but In all oth er respects is In contrast with the Sabbath. One is the seventh day, the other is the first. The Sabbath commemorates God's creation rest, the lirst day Christ's resur rection. On the seventh day God rested. On the lirst day Christ was ceaselessly ac tive. The seventh day commemorates a finished creation, the first a finished re demption. The Sabbath was a day of le gal obligation, the first day one of volun tary worship and service. The Sabbath is mentioned in the Acts only In connection with the Jews' and in the epistles only twice, once in the Hebrews which was written to Jews and the other time in Uolossians, in which it is| expressly said that it must not be observed. Our attitude toward this commandment is settled by our relation to Christ. If you are a Christian, you are not under its au thority. It is a part of the law. The Christian Is not under the law, but under grace. Rom. 6:14. The Christian therefore is not underithe authority of the fourth commandment. You are not required to keep it. I do not see how anything ;could be plainer. Ir, however, you are not ajChristian, you are under it. If, after six days of labor, you do not rest absolutely, you are guilty t)f wilJul violation of the law of God. You are just as guilty as a profane swearer, a murderer, an adulterer, a thief, a liar, or any:of the breakers of any of the com mands of the decalogue. One violation of this, unforgiven.byGod, is enough to damn the soul eternally. You are bound to keep the seventh day Sabbath. The natural question therefore that is In the mind of my hearers is doubtless this. If then I accept Christ as my personal Sa viour, am I free to do as I please on the Sabbath day? Yes, you are absolutely free to do as you please. And as a matter of tact I am not acquainted with any one at all except a few Jews and Seventh Day ad ventists .who observe the Sabbath day. They are confessedly under the law, and hence they try to keep the Sabbath. Some one linay kthen say, according to this teaching since the iSabbath day is abolished for the Christian, and since the first day is not the Sabbath I will do just as I please all.' seven days of the week. Certainly you can do just as you please, but letlme remind you not to forget this fact that if you are a true Christian, you will please to do that which is according to the will of God with reference to the use of his time. Has that will been revealed? And if it has been revealed, what is it? As soon as it is found out what the will of God Is, !ommandment. WADDELL PRATT. ;he Christian will be anxious to carry It )ut, not because it is commanded, but 3eing a ^Christian means that God's will ind his will are the same on every matter, ind his only concern will be that some thing may prevent giving God all that is possible of his time. Let us study the fourth commandment more in detail. We notice first that the Sabbath was founded on a definite, divine command, is to what was meant there cannot be the 3lighest ;doubt. It came with the same authority'as the command to keep the Passover or to circumcise the child. Again, the particular day to be kept as the Sabbath was authoritatively determin ad by .'God himself. It was the seventh 3ay. The Scripture never calls any day the Sabbath in connection with the fourth commandment but the seventh. For a Jew to keep the first day would have been pregumptious. Third, It is expressly declared what is the purpose of the Sabbath. It was a memo rial of God's finished work of creation (Ex. 20) ana or ;tne deliverance 01 israei irom bondage in Egypt (DeuJ. 5.) Fourth, the manner fn which it was to t>e observed is clearly stated. One re quirement alone was made. No work for iman!or his family or his animals. It forbade work. It did not forbid recrea tion. As a matter of fact the Jews used it tor recreation. They paid visits from house to house, and spent much of the day In social enjoyments. One Instance of this is prominently mentioned in the case )f our Lord. On his way to Jerusalem, iust five days before he was crucified, he was entertained at a big dinner party, as eve would say, at the home of Martha and Mary and Lazarus. Since He was crad led on Wednesday, this loccurred on Sat urday, or to use our present division of the (lay, on Friday evening, the first part jf the Sabbath. In the writings of Augustine we find Sim censuring 'the Jews for dancing on ;he Sabbath. He said that they had bet ,er plow than dance. Now whatever we nay say about dancing as a moral ques tion, it is certain that the law ;did not for )ld dancing, bnt did forbid plowing. I have no doubt that if the pious Jew in Palestine in the time of Samuei;had known ;he same development of sports as fre lave today, he would have put no obstacle n the way offhls boys having a game of jaseball, or tennis, or other recreations, jo long as no work was done, on the Sab jath day. The passage In Isaiah 58:13-14 in which will unto t.hA word nla&sure is used. las no reference whatever to -what we call ;he pleasures or amusements of today, [t Is generally agreed, by scholars that It relates to business, work, dally occupa tions throughout. Nothing is said in the Old Testament ibout special worship on the Sabbath daily. The priests in the temple continued to of fer the dally sacrifices. But it was not a lay for worship. It was simply a day of est. The word means cessation, rest. There Was but one place to worship. That was the temple at Jerusalem. The people went up there to the feasts. They ivere required to do this at least three ;lmes ji year. But the weekly Sabbath lad no requirement for worship. We lave no|doubt that the pious Israelite, vbon-the day Rcame, spent much of his ,ime in thought about God, in Instructing ;he children, in telling his family what it! ivas that the Sabbath stood for. It was iod's way of securing for the successive fenerations the knowlege of his wonderful iealings with his people. But provided le did no work, no rpriest or other relig ous officer had any right to call him to ac ?unt for not worshipping. The use of the word ''holy" has no doubt ed to much confusion in this connection, rhe word ordinarily means ''set apart." I Anything set apart waaiholy. The dishes, vessels of the tabernacle were "holy," be-j jause set apart, and yet thev had no mor i\ character. The priests were holy.) Eli's sons, for insta nee, were holy, though ;bey*were men of very bad character. 'Holy" is used in the sense of pure/clean, ileo.^But this is a derived meaning,not the jrlmary one. Israel was a "holy" nation, i nation set apart from all others, yet in the time of Mannasseh, it was anything jut holy, in the sense of righteous. The ;ribe of Levi was "holy,"" being set apart from all the others, 3ut*lt was anything but holy in thei ime of Micah. The priests were "holy," jet apart from the families of Levi, but ,hey were anything but pure in the time )f Christ. The high priest was "holy," set ipart, but Calapbas or Annas was any ;hing but good. The [temple building was "holy," set ipart, within this the inner court was 'holy," set apart from! the rest, and still further within was the "holy of holies" >et apart from the inner court. The first .'ruits were "holy" set apart for God, the firstlings ofjthe cattle were "holy," the tithe was "holy." all set apart for God. 3o the seventh day, the Sabbath was holy," jet apart. The seventh year was "holy," ;he land must then rest. And the forty ilnth and fiftieth years, the fiftieth being ;he{year of jubilee, were sabbatic years, 'holy" set apart to ?od.. . All these requirements were intended to teach Israel that God claimed the earth, ,he people, their property and everything is his own. The Sabbath was a great es sential of this system which God planned tor teaching great spiritual truths. It is no wonder then that the penalty tor violating this commandment was ?o ievere. It was the one commandment ;hat kept before the people every week 3od's claim upon them. So just as the ligh priest had to die if he went into the Host Holy Place on any other day than ;han the great day of Atonement, so the Israelite must die if he worked on the Sab bath day. Except for this commandment, the ma ority of the people would not have thought >f God. But the entire cessasion from vork each week kept Him constantly in mind. It was a singularv benificent institution. The agricultural life of Israel did not :ompare in its trials and hardships with )resent work and distress in labor. They lad no sweatshops, fro long^ night hours, so crowded tenements. But they had to vork, and man and beast became tired and ;he Sabbath was welcome at the end of six lays. It was a perpetual witness of some ;hing better and thus stirred in the Israel te those hopes which have drawn men 3odward throughout the ages. Slaves md animals were greatly blessed by it, securing as it did for them in those days ;hat which would never have been theirs ind that which no other nation afforded. I have no doubt that this cessation of vork was an offense to the covetous then >ven as now. Amos tell us (Amos 8:5) that ? ??U ? (ii/Uam ?**4I1 C?KKof K Kq r?Ana II tJ II ?ttiU VI J1CI1 Will LilU OU.UWU.UiI VV ;hat we way set forth wheat." But to the >ulk of the nation that it wus a gracious )lessing from God. The relation that the Sabbath bears to ;he Lord's day,'or thejflrst day of the week, s not a necessary part of our subject to iay. All we have said has to do with the Sabbath, the seventh day of the week, is distinguished from the first day. How >ver rigidly and devoutly one may spend Sunday, he is not keeping the Sabbath, rhe Chiistian's Sunday, or as our Con fession of Faith declares it to be called in scripture. The Lord's Day, the first day of .he week aud the Sabbath are absolutely lifferent institutions. How very different ;ney are can be seen by comparing the anlversaily admitted facts regarding both. 1. The Sabbath was founded by a defi llte command. You can find no such com mand anywhere in Scripture relative to the first day of the week, which is called the Lord's Day. 2. The Sabbath was the seventh day, settled by Divine authority. This and no other one in the week must the Israelite observe. With us the seventh day is a common day, and it is the first that we observe as a religions festival. 8. The Sabbath day was a memorial of creation and deliverance from- Egypt. The day first commemorates the resurrec tion of our Lord from the dead. 4. The Israelite kept the Sabbath per fectly when he did no work himself, nor allowyiI those subject to him to work. It was for rest, not for worship. The first day is a day which we have for worship, prayer, service and meditation. 5. The penalty for not keeping the Sab bath was death. There is not a sugges LiUii ill bllU iiUW XCOLULLiCIIt LIlUb W? rtltJ guilty for violating the first day of the week. The only similarity between them con sists in the fact that both recuij ;every sev en daysfand both contain the principle that one seventh of time should be set apart from,the rest. In every other re spect they are in contrast. For some time after the Christian era began, the Jewish Christians continued to observe the Sabbath. To say how long Is difficult because we have no inspired rec ords on the subject. It is equally difficult to determine when Christians began to observe the first day as a day of rest as well as worship. After the ressurrection, when any day Is spec ially mentioned with respect to the Chris tian life, it is the first day of the week. It is clear from the New Testament that they came together on that day to "break break." How it came about that the first day was selected is easily seen. Christ had found ed His Church. It was not enough simply for a man to be allied to Christ in a per sonal relation. By virtue of this, he be came connected with hls,fellow men. They became one body In Christ. These rela tionships required expression. Time was necessary for this. It is not hard to see why the first day was selected- by the in spired apostles. This was the day when Christ rose and redemption was achieved. Ti- 4- It ~ JLL WilO tuc Utt)' U1 mo appetULtUlUtt \AJ tuo UiO ciples. It was the day of the baptism of the Spirit at Pentecost. Naturally, even if not guided by inspiration or receiving a direct command, the early Christians would have selected this day. The Sab bath day was the day to them of a dead Christ. To. observe tne Sabbath would have have amounted to a denial of his resurrec tion. It would have been teaching the lie that the Pharisees manufactured and which their followers.have even in this day revived, that the body, the physical body of our Lord did not actually rise from the grave. But they knew that his body, the same one which he had before death, did rise. So they chose to use the first dav.. As far as we can find out in the New Testament, the apostles did ?not command Christians to rest on that day. The only command In the New Testament relative to the first day Is one which is willnlly and habitually violated by nine tenths of pro fessing Christians, namely. "Cpon the first day of the week, let each onej of you lay by him In store as God hath prospered him. It seems Iprobable that for a long lime the first day was not observed as a day ^of rest. When Christians became more numerous ana more poweriui in tne state, thev began to use their power to se cure the first day, from intrusion, so that they might {have' it for worship. By the time of Constantino they had reached such power that the government made laws to secure the day as a day in which men might be free to worship, and they did this by limiting the work of that day The laws of the State'did notthen and can. not rightly say that we shall now do this or that. But they cap say, we must re frain from work if the majority are bene fitted thereby. But the matter of rest was a secondary consideration for the Chris tian on the'first day. The contrast therefore is striking. The Sabbath was made primarily for rest. It was only after the return from captivity and the building of the synagogues that it was used by the Jews for worship. Be fore the captivity, the temple was the place of worship. After the captivity, they used the Sabbath as the day of worship, not because commanded, but because the Sabbath law gave them leisure that day. The worship was an accident, not the real object of the day. On the other hand, The Lord's Day, the first day was used primarily for worship and religious activity. After a while it came to be. used also as a day of rest. But rest was the accident, and,worship was th chief use of the day. It is seen therefore that the Sabbath was a matter of law, the Lord's Day is a matter of privilege. When therefore one asks what he may or may not do on the Lord's day, he is raising a question that the Christian should not ask at all. If one is a real Christian, if one has been born again and is indwelt by the Holy Spirit, not simply a church member, but a member of the Lord Jesus Christ, he will want all the time pos sible to devote to the worship and service of God. He will therefore use all proper means to secure the first day of the week free from all sorts of intrusions that he may have at least one seventh of his time for fspiritual matters. But he will not stopithere. Ho will take Wednesday night, as many true Christians do# and he will welcome the custom which is growing of closing business at noon on Saturday, in order that the Lord's Day may bo still better protected. But it will be for the Christian not a matter of legal obligation, but of ;glorious privilege. Of course if a man is not a Christian, if he has not been 1 I bom again, he is still under the law, not under grace, and what we have been say ing does not apply to him. As far as I can make out from the Scriptures a man who is not a Christian is under legal obligation ' to keep Ithe 'seventh day Sabbath. The Christian is not under the law. The nec essary inference is that is not a Christian is under the law and the seventh day Sab bath of rest is a part of the law, and hence the unbeliever is certainly under this com mandment. Up to this point, we have not spoken of a day of rest as a social, political institu tion , God bears two relations to tho world. 4s manifested in Christ He is our Redeemer and the founder of asupernatur al organization, The Church. Aslthe moral governor of the universe, and of this world in particular He founded the natural organization, the State. The State, under the Almignty as its moral governor, has the right to enact laws for the best inter ests of its people. What are the best, it determines from revelation and provi dence. Experience plays a large part. Now it is a scientific fact as well as a re vealed fact that man needs one day of rest in seven. So for its physical well being, for its|intellectual well being, ond especial ly to counteract the terribly strenuous life of today, the State can and does enact , laws requiring cessation from labor. But. , with this the Church as such has nothing to do, and the glory of the Southern Pres byterian'Church is that it does uotjbelieve in dictating to the State. The question for the Christian is not, i "Shall I by doing |this or that break the ( law? But shall I by doing this miss a bles sing? The PsaJniist speaking prophetical " the time when Christ should ris6, Elm 118) saicl '-This is the day the Lord made; we will rejoice and be glad in i it." As one has well said, "Everything will fall {into its right place and every questi.n will receive it ti-ue answer, if we ' once seize the true idea of the Day' It Is a , Day tp rejoice in; not a Day of bondage 1 but of freedom; not of gloom, but oft glad 1 ness; a Day in which 3we declare that we ! are not merely merchants, mechanics, i shopkeepers and {lawyers but men?chil dren of God and heirs of immortality; a Day in which we assert our position as the rulers and lords of the material universe 1 and refuse to bo in -thraldom to it, and ( in which we claim to be citizens of an in visible and Divine commonwealth. It per- t petuates not the memory of a deliverance iiow Egypt, but a still nobler redemp tion." We do not celebrate by the Lord's Day the completion of the old creation, bat the . beginning of a new creation; not a dead Christ in a tomb, but a living Christ seat ed in the heavenlies. It is not kept be cause demanded by external law. but be* ~ cause the Spirit of God dwelling In us. to whom the Christian Is wholly yielded, Im pels us to actively serve ana worship our Saviour on this Day, thereby securing real s rest for worn out physical nature, ana it is a prophecy of that day to come, when de livered from the bondage of tne naturx.1 body, so full of weakness, we shall spend an eternity without weakness or weariness in the worship and service of God. Vatw Tha Iwrlfor vfahc tn qaIttiavI. HVAUi AllV TT I 1IAJ1 ??A01_1V0 W HMU1VK* edge his indebtedness to Dr. B. W. Date for the order of presentation of part of this discourse. After preparing the sub stance from original study and before writing, he was forcibly struck by the ar rangement of thought by Dr. Dale, and also by his holding practically the same views, and so the arrangement of part of the foregoing as well as several histori cal facts he owes to the above author. PROPOSES HELP FOR GOOD ROADS House Pluses Bill Granting High# fim way Subsidies. i .? /as COMPOSITE OF SEVERAL MEJOVIES * SL Is Combination of 29 Bills Dunns Present Session of Congress. Washington, April 30.?The house today aided the national good roads movement fey passing a proposition In the poetofflloe appropriation bill which would grant a subsidy to all highways mall used In' the rural free aellvey mail service. It is esti mated that the cost of the first year would be $16,000,000 to $18,000,000. The amendment offered by Eepresenta tive Shackelford of Missouri was a com promise of 29 good roads bills introduced during the present session of congress. It divides all highways used In the rural free dalivery mail service into three classes. Class A is to receive $25 per mile a year, Glass B $20 and Class C $15. * The amendment was adopted by 182 to 89. The division was between city and coun try. Democrats and Bepubllcans from rural communities combined to defeat the arguments of a similar coalition of reprs eentatives from the cities. rrur uriCCTQQTDDT DDAnT.mr. X1XJU 1TX1OUA0OXA. X A A XVWAiJ The emergency appropriation before Congress of $1,500,000 for the repair and > ' strengthening of levees along the Mississi ppi river Is but a small portion of the amount of money that the Federal Gov-1 ernment should spend as rapidly as the Y ' work can be done in so handling the Miss issippi River problem as to make practic ally impossible a repetition of the loss of life and damage to property by annnal floods in the river. Definite and accurate facts in all this completion about the re sults of this year's visitation are not yet | at hand, but enough information has ac cumulated during the past month abotit the damage at various .points in the Miss issippi Valley from Southern Illinois to Northern Louisiana to warrant the belief that several hundred lives have been lost and that the value of property destroyed equals at least the $18,000,004} or $20,000,000 which expert opinion regards as the amount of money sufficient to give com plete levee protection along the Mississ ippi River; The loss of individual lives or the sweep ing away of the litttle family groups, more or less obscure, may not have some of the dramatic features of the loss of 1600 lives in the sinking of one ocean-going vessel, and consequently may not appeal to the form of the public mind which Is Influenced by the newspapers. But that loss, to say nothing of thfe damage to pro perty, should appeal strongly to the sym pathies of the people of the United States, and in such a way that the representatives of people in Congress shall be moved to make prompt and liberal provision against repetition of It. Such a loss to the country Is preventable.' The prevention Is the task of the whoule country. It is the duty of the whole country?Manufactures Becord. ARE YOU UNITY ? Do You Smoke too Much, Drink to* Much, Eat too Muoh ? Ittakesa mighty good stomach to feel readv for a good breakfast the morning after the banquet or sooi&l session. "Wbal do you want for breakfast?" Inquired Brown's good wife. "Just a pleasant smile and a breath of fresh air," answered Brown the morning after an Important meeting at the lodge. If you eat, smoke or drink too much always remember that two little MI O-NA stomach tablets taken just be fore you go to bed will destroy all poi sonous gases and leave you with a sweet, clean stomach in the morning. For Indigestion and al1 stomach dis tress, MI-O-NA is the best prescription in the world. C. A. Milford & Co. sell it on money back plan, Large box only 50 cents. Dr. J. T. R. Neal, Prop. Riverside Drug Co., Greenville, 8. C., writes re cently, "I have been a practicing physician and druggist for over 35 years and have sold and administered many kidney medicines but none to equal Foley Kidney Pills. They ire superior to any I ever uesd ana ;ive the quiekest permanent relief." McMurray Drug Co. When you go fof paint, say Devoe. You ivill never he disappointed in [looks nor luality. For sale at Speed's. You can get pure Linseed oil if you will jo to Speed a drug store, - ; .