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Many There Are That Live in A False Security THERE is nothing more terrible in the Bible, or out of it, than our Lord's repeated warnings that many persons will meet with an awful disappointment after this life is over. They will find that they have been living in a false security, because they did not seek to know and do what God required of them, but only to follow out their own ideas as to what ls right and proper. There are lots of well-meaning, and in many ways well-doing, persons in the world today who have never acknowl edged even to themselves the sinful ness of their own hearts and their need of Christ as a Saviour from sin, and who reject either with indiffer ence or with disdain the atonement for sin which was provided at the cost of so awful a sacrifice on God's part. What right have such persons to ex pect favor or forgiveness from God after they have deliberately refused to avail themselves of his offer of mercy an and through Christ? "Ye must be born again," Jesus said. "That which ls born of the flesh ls flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit" i The New Testament teaches very plainly and in very many different form of expression that ms^ can not be Baved by his own goodness, but only through the atonement for sin made by God himself in the person of his son, and that therefore all true righteousness begins with faith in CiVrist; that is with the acceptance by us of .<?Ous offer of mercy through Christ. Loving anu Serving. True faith in Christ will Impel us to love him, and true love for Christ will impel us to serve him. Faith that does not lead to loving service is therefore not true faith. As James says, that sort of faith "is dead in itself." But good works that are not born of faith and love and obedience are not good at all in God's sight "This is the work of God," Jesus said, "that ye believe on him whom he hath Bent" In other words, submission to the will of God by acceptance of God's terms and receiving pardon as a free gift in Christ's name ls the beginning of a right relation between the sinner and God. And no man can please God until he has placed himself In a right attitude toward God. Many will say to me In that day, ""Lord, Lord, ded we not prophesy by thy name, and by thy name cast out devils, and by thy name do many mighty works? And then will I pro fess unto them, I never knew you: - depart from me, ye that work inquity." Over and again, Jesus repeated the .warning that many who thought while .on earth that they were living right and even doing special work for bim will be grievously disappointed in the end. H~w ls It with us individually? Have we 6?.ch made our peace with God in Christ, and accepted Christ as our Saviour from sin itself as well as from the condemnation due to us for sin? Or, are we preparing for our selves the disappointment of finding when lt is too late that we have been trusting in a false idea. 1 BEST DAY IS THE PRESENT The Time That Is With Us Now ls the Time Appointed for the Doing of Good Deeds. You will never find it with a tel- i sscope, no matter how earnestly you look back into the past, or forward toto the future; It is here now, and we do not see lt because we are all ;oo far-sighted! Today is the best i lay for the purpose of today. There lave been a good many best days as they seemed to us all through the rears gone, and they were best in (heir time, but they would no more It our present than our old baby pina- ? tore would fit the grown man or worn in. There are going to be a great : nany best days lt the time to come, ?ut to try to ad?pt them to what we aow are and where we now are, will j de about like picking gooseberries before they are ripe and trying to , make believe they are strawberries! Sunday ls the best day In all the week for Sunday, but lt ls a mighty poor day when we try to make Mon lay or any other day of the week out ?f lt Each day as it comes along is j the best day, unless we are way be ilud in our use of days and so are j nylng to live a day that belongs in last week or last month or last year ' In lt Each day ls full of the best things If we but look for them, or, for that matter, or the worst things, If ve look for them I That ls, the days ire not periods of time with fixed maracters to which we come; they ire periods of time with capacity to vhloh wo oom? and fill them from our ll 3wu characters. They are all In our bands and ever, day can be the best Uy if we choose to maka lt so.-Uni ter? alist Leader. Th? Way to Heaven. "Whs ?eeks for heaven alone to save his soul may keep the path, but will .-?ot reach the goal; while he who walka In love may wander far, yet God will bring him where the blessed ara," -Henry Van Dyke. CHURCH DIRECTORY OF THE COUNTY For sometime the editor of The Advertiser has been endeavoring to compile a complete schedule of all of the religious services held in all the churches of the county, but we have not yet been able to complete the list. The following are the appointments which have been sent in to us, and ad ditions will be made until the list is complete: REV. E. C. BAILEY, Presbyterian. EDGEFIELD. 1st and 3rd Sundays ll a. m. TRENTON. 1st and 3rd Sundays 8 p. m. 4th Sunday ll a. m. - JOHNSTON. 2nd Sunday 11.15 a. m., 4th Sunday 8 p. m. REV. HENRY B. WHITE, Baptist. STEVENS CREEK: Ev*>ry second Sunday morning at ll o'clock. REV. G. W. BUSSEY, Baptist. RED OAK GROVE: First Sunday morning at ll o'clock, and Saturday before. DR. W. S. DORSETT, Baptist. JOHNSTON. Evary Sunday morn ing at ll a. m. and every Sunday night at 7.30 except 5th Sundays. REV. P. E. MONROE, Lutheran ST. JOHN'S. Johnston. Preach ing 2nd Sunday 11.15 a. m. 4th Sunday 7.30 p. m., 1st 7.30 p. m. MT. CALVARY. Preaching 1st and 3rd Sundays 11.15 a. m. GOOD HOPE. Preaching 2nd Sun day 3.30 p. m., 4th 11.15 a. m. REV. FOSTER SPEAR, Methodist. McKENDREE. Third Sunday morn ing ll a. m., 1st Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock. REV. H. E. BECKHAM, Methodist. JOHNSTON: First and fourth Sun da^ mornings at ll a. m, Second and third Sunday night at 7.30. HARMONY: Third Sunday morn ing at ll a. m. Sunday afteruoon at 3.30. SPANN. Second Sunday morning at ll a. m., 4th Sunday afternoon at 3.30. J. E. JOHNSTON, Baptist. BOLD SPRINGS: First and third Sunday mornings ll a. m. GRAVES L. KNIGHT, Baptist. TRENTON: 2nd and 4th Sunday mornings a% ll a. m. REV. J. C. BROWN, Baptist. PHILIPPI: Second and fourth Sun day mornings at ll o'clock. REV. J. R. WALKER, Methodist. EDGEFIELD: Preaching every Sun day morning at 11:00, and every Sun day night at 8:30, except third Sunday morning and first Sunday night. Prayer meeting every Wednesday afternoon at 4 o'clock. TRENTON: Third Sunday morning at 11:00 and first Sunday af ternoon at at 4:00. MILL CHAPEL: First Sunday night at 7:30. REV. R. G. SHANNOKBOUSE, Episcopal EDGEFIELD: Preaching, first and and third Sunday mornings at ll o'clock. Prayer meeting every Wednesday af ternoon. TRENTON: Second Sunday morn ing at ll o'clock. First and third Sun day afternoons at 3:30 o'clock. RIDGE SPRING: Fourth Sunday morning at ll o'clock. BATESBURG: Second and fourth, Sunday afternoons at 5 o'clock, and fifth Sundays. DR. M. D. JEFFRIES, Baptist. EDGEFIELD: Everv Sunday morn ing at 11:30 and every Sunday night at 8:00, except fifth Sundays. Prayer meeting Wednesday night at 7:30. HORN'S CREEK: Third Sunday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock. REV. P. P. BLALOCK, Baptist. BEREA: First Sunday at ll o'clock. GILGAL: Third Sunday at ll o'clock. REV. B. H. COVINGTON, Methodist. BARR'S CHAPEL: First Sunday at ll o'clock. PLUM BRANCH: Second and third Sunday at ll o'clock. PARKSVILLE: Second and third Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock. DOTH AN: Fourth Sunday at ll o'clock. MERIWETHER: Fourth Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock. REV. J. T. LITTLEJOHN, Baptist. RED HILL: First and fourth Sun day afternoons at 3 o'clock. Third Sunday at ll o'clock. REPUBLICAN : First Sunday morn ing at ll o'clock. REHOBOTH: Second Sunday at ll D'clock. COLLIERS: Third Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock. ANTIOCH: Fourth Sunday morn ing at ll o'clock. " REV. P. B. LANHAM, Baptist. CLARK'S HILL: First Sunday morn ing at ll o'clock. EDGEFIELD MILL: Second Sun lay morning. ' HARDYS: Third Sunday morning. Mt. ZION: Fourth Sunday morning. REV. R. EARLE FREEMAN, Baptist. PLUM BRANCH: First Sunday at ll o'clock. Third Sunday afternoon it 3:45. Mt CARMEL: Second Sunday morn ing. FIRE INSURANCE Go to see Harting & Byrd Before insuring elsewhere. We represent the best old line com panies. Harting & Byrd At the Farmers Bank, Edgefield His Sinless Nature and Infinite Love THERE is a prevalent miscon ception concerning the dally life and experiences of the Lord Jesus when he was with us. We think of him as the 'Man of Borrows," and rightly. "He sarrled his sorrows;" the burden of Dur guilt was upon him. He was so In ?ympathy with men that their burdens and sorrows became his. The incom pleteness of character, the hypocrisy and deceit which met him everywhere, the thousand forms of iniquity which filled the world, our guilt laid upon bis soul, did Indeed fill him with sor row; there was no sorrow like his. It was a deep undercurrent that be came greater as he approached the end. Even when all would seem to be far removed from this, when the mul titudes were about him seeking his blessing, we hear him say: "My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even unto death." But with all this his heart was full of Joy. There was sorrow, but there was no sadness; there was a burden, but there was no disappointment; there was the keen sense of the guilt of sin and of the agony of the atone ment, but there was no hesitation. We see the tumult, but he speaks of "my peace," his own peculiar peace; we see the suffering, but his highest wish for his disciples was that "my Joy might remain in you, and that your Joy might bs full" Life's Suffering and Happiness. Suffering and happiness are not incompatible j sorrow and Joy are not so antagonistic that they may not dwell In the sanie heart. There ls a grace which rises above the sui' faring, and makes it minister to Joy. It is one of the wonderful things o? grace that it so lifts us up out of our surroundings and out of ourselves, that there ia perfect peace even when the suffering is greatest. We have seen the victim of disease racked with pain whose face beamed with joy, and whose words were songs of praise. The martyrs sang as they burned. So with Jesus; at the very time when his cup was Ulled to the overflowing, he talked with biaj disciples out of a heart perfectly at rest There was to Jesus the Joy of his sinless nature. We cannot measure that, but we may sometimes have a foretaste of it; there may be such s Bense of pardon and of Divine love that we are as In the presence ol God, but our highest short expert ance ls far below the blessedness which was perpetual In the soul ol Jesus. To him there was the Joy o? infinite love. He gave himself for others, and In their salvation his Joy was above all suffering. The prayer of the penitent thief was to him the Joy of love prevailing, even over the thorns and the nall?. There to him was the consciousness of his Father's love and support. He dwelt on that love. Even with the cross before him, in the commmunion of the holy fellowship his very garments shone with the glory of God. He was mocked and scorned, but all the time he, saw his work prevail ing. All Typical of His Love. The lame man walking, the dumb man Binging the praise of God, the dead man coming back to life, were typical of a greater work of love in the salvation of men. He thought ol the man whose sins were forgiv en as one savjd, and not simply healed. The world redeemed was not present to him. How great the Joy of that hour as he prayed, "Holy Father, keep those whom thou hast given me!" We can know but little of that higher world In which Jesus lived, for it 1B the world of perfect holiness and Infinite love, but we see something of lt; we have some thing in common with him, so that we can enter into his Joy sufficlently to know that lt crowned all labor and- sweetened all sorrow. The "Man of sorrows let him ever be us, but also we should open our heans to receive the Inflowing of his ever-present, unbounded Joy.-United Presbyterian. Joy of the Lord. Sorrow for sin ls the road to the Joy of salvation. As with the people of Israel of old, the terrors of the law are only the reverse side of the glory of the gospel; the warnings are only shadows of the promises. So Ezra spoke words of consolation to the weeping people assembled to heat from his Hps God's message to them. "This day ls holy unto Jehovah your God; mourn not nor weep, for the Joy of Jehovah ls your strength." The Joy that gives strength ,1s a divine joy, lt ls called "the joy of J? hovah." For pain and rapture meet in the Ufo of God. Ho, too, feels an* guish for the broken law as he sees tl In the broken lives of his children, and he, beering the burden of the world's agony in atoning love, touches the blessedness of divinest joy through sacrificial service, wheo he sees of the travail of his soul and ls satisfied. When wv learn to share his heartbreak over a lost world and lost souls we shall have also entered into the joy of oar Lord. They Fail in Edgefield. The liquor forces in Edgefield who have been working to get up a petition which would enable them to call a dispensary election for that county according to the Advertiser, are about to fail. Meny men to whom the petitions were sent re fused to handle them. Senator Tillman refused to sign the peti tion. This is quite a credit to Edge field but it was no more than was to be expected of the good people of the old mother county. She can not afford to take such a back ward step. We see that Dr. M. D. Jeffres pastor of the Edgefield Baptist church has come in for some heavy abuse because he did his duty in op posing the effort to re-establish the dispensary. This is not at all to be wondered at, and was no surprise to Dr. Jeffries. It is a compliment to him or any other man to have the liquor element arrayed against him.-Greenwood Journal. ^Miiiriimiiiiiiiii!Uii4H~H>iiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiHiiHm PROFESSIONAL 1 ??I?!!:illillj|||?ll!llllllvvvvlllllllllll!lllr?illllllir; Drs. J. S. & F. P, BYRD, Dental Surgeons Edgefield and Trenton Edgefield Office over Postoffice Office 'Phone 3 ?. Residence 17-R AH. CORLEY, Surgeon . Dentist. Appointments at Trenton on Wednesdays. Crown and Bridge werk a specialty. James A. Dobey, DENTAL SURGEON, Johnston, S. C OFFICE OVER JOHNSTON DRUG CO. Round Trip Tourist Pares Now in effect Via Southern Rail way-Premier Carrier of the South. Tickets on sale daily including April 30, 1912 with final limit re turning May 31, 1912. For oom plcte information as to schedules, sleeping car service etc., call on nearest Southern Railway ticket 'agent, or J. L. Meak, AGPA., Atlanta, Ga. F. L. Jenkins, TPA., Augusta, Ga. Light Saw, Lathe and Shin gie Mills, Engines, Boilers, Supplies and repairs, Porta qle , Steam and Gasoline En gines, vSaw Teeth, Files, Belts and Pipes. WOOD SAWS and SPLITTERS. Gins and Press Repairs. Try LOMBARD, AUGUSTA. GA. Money to Loan. With real estate security, for long time. Easy terms. ARTHUR S. TOMPKINS Seed Which Succeed. Seed purchasing is a matter of confidence. We ask your confidence in Landreth's seed which have stood the test for 128 years. We solicit your orders for garden and flower seed. You cannot do better than buy Landreth's seed. W. E. Lynch & Co. Hake the Old Suit Look New We are better prepared than ever to do first-class work in cleaning and press ing of all kinds. Make your old pants or suit new by let ing us clean and press them. Ladies skirts and suits al so cleaned and pressed. Sat isfaction guaranteed. Edgefield Pressing Club WALLACE HARRIS PROP. Ready for Delivery We have in our warehouse read}7 for delivery all the popular brands of commercial fertil izers from reliable manufacturers . We can alao supply the farmers with the necessary ingredients for Mixing Their Fertilizers at Home Drop in and get our prices before making your contracts for the year., May & Prescott Copyright 1909, br C. E. Zimmerau Co.-No. 57 THERE is nothing which will make so much difference on the journey through life as a bank ac count. . THOSE without one will bitterly regret their care lessness, for sooner or latrr they will be overtaken by misfortune in some form or other. ON the other hand these with a bank account are sure to catch up with Dame Fortune. IF you want a pleasant journey through life, don't put off starting a bank account any longer. Bank of Edgefield OFFICERS: J. C. Sheppard, Pres.; W. W. Adams, Vice pres.; E. J. Mims, Cashier; J. H. Allen, assistant Cashier. DIRECTORS: J. C. Sheppard, W. W. Adams, J. Wm. Thurmond, Thos. H. Rainsford, J. M. Cobb, B. E. Nicholson, A. S. Tompkins, C. C. Fuller, W. E. Prescott. We Told You So! The roads are get ting better and the orders are getting heavy, but our stock of fertilizers of the best grades is com plete. Send us your orders under a guar antee of first-class treatment at our hands. We have recently taken on Dry Cell batteries for gasolene engines, and the boys do tell us that they are the beat to be had. Yours truly, W. W. ADAMS & GO.