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Raising Benevolent Funds /. S. Kendall in the Religious Telescope SOME things are fundamental In the organization of the local church, If they are to provide adequately for the missionary and other benevolent Interests, Many churches are falling In this par ticular because they have no -wiell thoughtout plans. They are not ap plying the same tact and business sense in this department that they use In their local church affairs. It is not In the province of the stew ardship commission to order the plan a church should use. Every church win pursue the plan which seems most desirable fox Ita locality; but several years of experience and care ful observation of churches of every kind leads us to believe that we can safely make some suggestions as to the requisites for success. There must be organization first of alL This organization must havo. first, a pastor with a vision. The re lation of this servant of the church to the financial welfare of this depart ment of the congregation's finance ls unique and important. Especially ls this true of the smaller churches. Second, there must be a strong be nevolent committee. This committee should be chosen- vipely. It should have members who aro interested in and are in touch with the vari?os be nevolent boards. Third, there must be a cooperation of tu? various departments In tike church. The Sunday school and Ju nior and Senior Christian Endeavor es) should be enlisted. "Benevolent Budget" Needed. The plan ls to provide a benevolent budget which will include all that the local church is to be called upon pub licly for the regular benevolence of the congregation. The benevolent committee ls to di rect an every member canvass of the entire church for an annual pledge on the weekly basis, to be paid weekly or monthly. Where practical, this can vass should be separate from the can vas for the current expense budget. This committee should see tha? the pledged amount is fully adequate to meet the entire budget. The offering ls to be made In con nection with the regular church of fering, using for this purpose the du plex envelope, either the single or the double pocket, as tho church may fur nish. These envelopes should be numbered and dated and every mem ber supplied with one for every Sun day of the year. Every church should have a benev olent treasurer, who should be a mem ber of the benevolent committee, and In connection with the general ste ward should open all envelopes and make the proper entries rn books pro vided for this purpose. He should make a remittance once a quarter to the parties designated to receive the benevolent funds. Quarterly state men ts should be furnished the benev olent committee for every member. This committee should distribute the same and look carefully after delin quents and collect unpaid pledgee. Work of the Church. Preparation should precede the canvass to be made for benevolences. The church should give information as to the needs and work done by these various societies that are sup ported by thia offering. The church should be called upon to give herself to prayer for these various interests. Secure, if possible, some one who ls thoroughly familiar with the plan to present it. He should show how it works elsewhere when worked. The church should provide those who are to do the work with the needed helps. Have those who are to take the pledges thoroughly familiar with the system, so that they can give the needed Information when desired. In the financial awakening of a church, In the majority of cases, it ls wise to have two distinct campaigns of agitation, one for church support, the other for church benevolences. The pledge getting may be worked In one canvass, using cards especially prepared for the double budget, hav ing both subscription blanks on the same card. Experience is proving that separate canvasses are result ing In the greatest success. Where this ts done, the( people should be giv en a little time to breathe between the canvasses. ? *)? ?. The Heavenward Bide. A little cloud ld the sky makes al dark shadow on, the fields and forests and the mountain sides. The observ er at a distance beholds both th? light and beauty of the c loud and th? somberness of its shadow. If we could only get a distant viewpoint of our troubles, we would often be great ly comforted. We would see that tbs clouds which caaj their shadows on oar aves ase bright with mercy. "AD things Trot* together ft? spod fc> then j love QoA" when mystery our darkener! path, let ns re member the heavenward side Of oaf troubles. Real happiness ls spiritual It ls tho harmony of the soul with the will ot God. This inward music li largely the result af the shadows that try and discipline our faith. Tho trouble wita some preaching ls that lt is not expected to hit anything this side of the moon-end it dont 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: Every 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. Evsry 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 D. 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 daA" 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. WALKIiB, 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 afternoon at at 4:00. MILL CHAPEL: First Sunday night at 7:30. REV. R. G. SHANNONHOUSE, 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: Every 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. ELALOCK, 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. DOTHAN: Fourth Sunday at tl 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. ~~Z? -*? REPUBLICAN: First Sunday morn ing at ll o'clock. REHOBOTH: Second Sunday at ll o'clock. COLLIERS: Tha i 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 day morningT HANDYS: Third Sunday monffag. Mt ZION: Fourth Sunday moajg RIV. R. EARLE FREEMAN, Ba'njgf* PLUM BRANCH: First Sunday at ll o'cfock. Third Sunday afternoon at 3:45. Mt, CARMEL: Second Sunday morn ing. FIRE INSURANCE Go to sop Harting & Byrd Before insuring elsewhere. We represent the best old line com panies. Harting & Byrd At the Farmers Bank, Edgefield i A FALSE JRY Peace Not Always Indicative of Prosperity PEACE is a good thing, but peace in the ordinary sense of the word is not the summum bo num of human happiness or usefulness. Rest and freedom from pain are comforting to the sick, and may be signs of approaching dis solution. Peace in a community may Indicate prosperity, or lt may be in sensibility to duty and Indifference to fraud and political corruption. A man freezing to death or under the Influence ot some poison needs to be roused and kept moving. Some com munftles need nothing so much as to be waked up and forced to fight for good government Peace In the church may mean prosperity or decay. It ls written in the Acta: "Then bad the churches rest," "and walking in the fear of the Lord and In the comfort of the Holy Ghost were multiplied." This was after a period ol persecution and steadfast contention for the fa'' There have been other times " the church had rest because os asleep to its duty. Righteousness Fir The command to "conteud earnest ly for the faith once delivered to tho saints" does not Indicate tBat Chris tians in a world of sin are to expect or be satisfied with peace until righteousness ls established. So long as God has a controversy with men, controversy is the duty of the church. So long as immorality and Infidelity exist, the church has a mission to op pose them. Often Ita greatest need is for some one to stand, as did the prophet of old. and call men to line up. "Choose ye this day whom ye will serva" When this call ls heard there are always some to plead for peace. "Art thou ho that troublest Israel?" No, the men who trouble the Israel of God are those who pro mote immorality and Infidelity, who belittle the word of God and deny the doctrines of grace; and very often these cry "Peace, peace," when they themselves are disturbing the peace. When men in the church deny God as the Creator, or that Christ ls God, or that he died on Calvary as a sac rifice for sinners and rose from the dead, or that the Scriptures are In spired and true, the church has a controversy with thom, and woe be to lt If, through fear of man or love of ease or for any other cause? ii shrinks from Its duty. Danger of tho Chu NC h. The greatest danger of the church la. Its insensibility to the beginnings of unsound doctrine. It credits loose teachers with being better than they seem. It says 4f them, as a minister said of a student who seemed to deny the atonement, "He does not mean it, and. at any rate, he will get over it when be gets to work." It strains Its charity beyond the scripture point. It do? not heed the exhortation of John, the apostle of ?ove and peace: "If there come any unto you and bring not this doctrine, receive him not." A writer, describing a visit to the home of Henry Ward Beecher, speaks of a painting wHieh Mr. Beecher 3howed him, representing a huge mastiff asleep near something he had been left to guard, and a lap-dog quietly drerwlng lt away. "That," said he, pointing to the mastiff, "Is Orthodoxy, and the little dog is Heterodoxy." If ever the church needed to be awake, it ia now.-Her ald and Presbyter. Don't Look for Flaws, A large part of our own failures m life comes from seeing flaws and fail ures tn others that we do not need to see at all The keen-sighted pessimist does a great deal more harm than even the easily fooled, often mistaken optimist For the man who looks ?or flaws in other people's lives usually leaves those flaws worse than when he round them, by the hotice and atten tion flLho gives to them.; and this leavelMfci worse off himself. The man wWFlives so. much in the sun shine that he wont see other peopleV flaws helps those flaws to die, andi gathers new-sunshine and strength loy so doing. "Don't look for flaws es 700 go throne* Die; And even when yon find them, Tia wise and kind to be somewhat bund* and Look for the virtues behmd them.'" Virtue-hunting means vtrtue-flndmgj and the right things that we hunt for most eagerly we add constantly to our selves. But the best part of thia get ting la that ft la all in the Interes^ of uthera The Orsa test Race. Out of the chaos of our social sys? tem. out ot Intense freed for wealth ind power, out of oar shattered mer ila will come a mightier and greater race, the highest the world has ever tnown*-Rev. H. a Swesxingen, Pr?s aytertan, St Paul Love. It ls human nature to love and to love truly, and a way should be por rided for those young persons who ure unable to make love to each other lave In the street-Rev. J. IX Veten, Disciple, Hoboken. 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. ^iiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiimi+-M-*Hiiiii!iiiiiiiiiiiniiiib PROFESSIONAL Z X Tl(i:i ll?lll!llll!!!ill?l?-:-vvvlllllIII!!lllllrtlll?l!!in: 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 Fares 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 com plete 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, Saw Teeth, Files, Belts and Pipes. WOOD SAWS and SPLITTERS. Gins and Press Repairs. Try LOMBAED, AUGUSTA, GA. Money to Loan. With real estate security, for long time. Easy terms. ARTHURS. TOMPKINS I 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. Make the Old Suit Look New We are better prepared than ever to do first-class work in cleaning and press ing of all kinds. Hake 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 Chub WALLACE HARRIS PROP. Ready for Delivery i We have in our warehouse ready 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 1509, br C. E. Zimm?rman Co.--.Vo. 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 those 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. Hims, 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 best to be had. Yours truly, W. W. ADAMS & CO. ?MIS???