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? TT A I THE GITTITE By REV. B. B. SUTCLIFFE Extension Department Moody Bible Iff Institute oC Chicago s?ij TEXT-Then said the king to Ittai the Gltvite. wherefore gocst thou also with us?-II Sam. 15:19. ' To get the setting of this text we must read at least the first 23 verses of the chapter in which it is found. It will be seen that King David was driven from his place by the rebellion under Absalom. It was a dark item in David's history, and his prospects for final victory were not very promising. Some of nis most influ ential friends were turning from him, and his pop ularity seemingly was waning. Then it was that Ittai came to him with cheer and encour agement. mai's Choice of David. In the first place it was a proper choice, for even though David was driven out, he was still the rightful king. Then again, it was a very en thusiastic choice, as we see from verse 21. Ittai was in it for life or death. And it was a deliberate choice. He was awar3 of the difficulties, the pri vations and the dangers he must share with David. He was not blind to the promise cf ease and safety and pos sible advantage to himself by making another choice. And he had beforo him the example and influence ol' some of tile leading men who were forsaking David. Hut he had count ed the co?t and then deliberately and with enthusiasm he threw himself on David's side. \\ hat a picture this presents of what the Christians' choice should be in following the Lord. Doubtless there are certain difficul ties and privations, certain promises of ease and advantage from the other side. And there is surely seen the example ot many who turn aside. But in spite of this thc proper choice for the Christian is a deliberate and en thusiastic choice of the Lord whatever the cost may be. Ittai's Consecration to David. His consecration is seen in his sep aration to David's person. Where the king was he would bo and where the king went he must go. But this in volved a confession of David's pur pose. Being found with David meant that what David wanted to do, he want ed to do. lt wouid be plain to all, friend and foe alike, what Ittai want ed. And this in turn meant associa tion with David's people. How strong the church wouid be if all professing Christians were found among the peo ple of Christ, having the purpose of Christ as their purpose and knowing not only some of the promises of Christ, but knowing too sumething of the person ot Christ. But so many have their own purposes to follow and work out instead of tho Lord's. So many there are whose associations are more often formed among the ene mies rather than the friends of Christ. Little is seen ot' true consecration among them. Ittai's Compensation From David. To read this we must read I Sam. 18:1, 2. In this passage we are told that Ittai came to a place of responsibility for David's work. Ho became a leader among David's friends. This put him into a place of honor before David's enemies. They knew Ittai had been promoted and henceforth they must reckon with him in their warfare against David. And this gave him a place in sharing in David's triumph when at last the king came into his own. What an incentive for all Christians to step out and away from the world with a con secration to the Lord which would re sult in each one having such a place In the Lord's service that would make the enemy take note of them. And ia the filling of such a place there viii come at last the sharing of our Lord's triumph when, his foes being made his footstool, he is seated and reigning upon his throne. Ittai's Secret. Each successful life has had at its foundation some secret spring which has supplied the continuing energy to give that life success. In Ittai's case the secret was threefold. He had ?a personal attachment to David which never wavered when David came to troublous times. He was ready with personal sacrifice for David when the usurper was on the throne and David driven out. And finally there was per sonal satisfaction with David even when apparently David could give him nothing but difficulties and dangers while David's rival could hold out the promise of ease and safety. This same threefold secret applied to the life of any Christian in relation to the Lord will bring success of the highest kind. There ls in this fol lowing the Lord, sacrifice and priva tion, difficulty and danger in the pres ent time, but in the end it will be glory and honor, delight and joy in the presence of the Lord Jesus (Christ. The best armor is to keep out ol gun shot.-Bacon. O'^lnouR Phra'c In Persia. The expression "to give a cup o? ?See" has in Persia a somewhat aminoun significance, duo to tho fae; that the coffee cup is a recognized me llum for conveying poison. Some years ago the governor of Aspadana, having long been at daggers drawn with the chief of a powerful mountain tribe, determined in this way to put an end to all trouble. He professed to entertain a great degree of friendship and esteem for the chieftain and in vited him to visit him at his palace. The chief unsuspiciously came accom panied by his two young sons. For a week they were royally entertained. But at last one morning when the chief came into his host's presence ne was coldly received, and an attendant soon stepped forward with a single cup of coffee in his hand, which he of fered to the guest. The latter could not fail to understand that he was doomed. Preferring, however, steei to poison, he declined the cup and was thereupon, at a signal from his host, stabbed to death. What ls Happiness? The aim of human life, no doubt, ia happiness. But, after all, what is hap piness? Efficiency, wealth, material comfort? Many by their lives do so affirm; few are cynical enough to say so; and on their deathbeds none will feel so. Not even freedom in itself brings happiness. Happiness lies in breadth of heart. And breadth of heart is that Inward freedom which has the power to understand, feel with, and, if need be, help others. In breadth of heart are founded justice, love, sacrifice; without lt there would be no special meaning to any of our efforts, and the tale of all human life would be still no more than that of supremely gh'ted animals, many of whose communities are highly effi cient, and have instinctive unity founded on experience of its utility, but none of that conscious altruism which is without perception of future benefit to self, and works from sheer recognition of its own beauty.-Gals worthy, in Atlantic. Midnight Sun. The phenomenon known as "the midnight sun" is literally the shining o? the sun at midnight, which takes place within the arctic circle at and near midsummer. At that time the sun skirts the horizon without dipping below it. The further north one goes, the greater the number of days on which one finds the "midnight sun" visible. The cause of the phenomenon is. briefly, the inclination of the earth's axis to the ecliptic. For the elevation of the pole at any given spot is equal to the latitude of that spot; and the sun's polar distance on a midsummer day being 66H degrees, it will follow that in the latitude 66*4 degrees the sun will barely graze the horizon. North of that latitude the midnight sun is observed for some days about midsummer time, and at the North cape, latitude 73*4 degrees, the mid night sun Is visible from May 12 to July 29. Ruined by Women. An Atchison man has been ruined by women; not actresses and chorus girls, but by his wife and daughters. His wife has an "artistic" tempera ment, and to this day takes painting and music lessons. Ono daughter, ac cording to her mother, has a "voice." The man pays for training it. Another daughter paints china. The man pays for her lessons. Another daughter wants to become a violinist, and the man is putting up. He has never had a wholesome meal Bined his marriage. He ls in debt, old, thin and a failure. There is another combination in which women ruin men, besides the histor ical one of "wine, women and song." Atchison Globe. Reconciled. A calm, dispassionate young .nan married a livelv, emotional girl. Soon after the honeymoon had flitted away they set about to remake each other. Their efforts meeting with Indifferent success, the young husband grew cyni cal and his wife grew very morose. For months they had a miserable ex istence in the vale of sarcasm and tears. Finally, however, they gave up all hope of leveling their divergent personalities and lived happily unto a ripe old age. Domestic happiness consists in working out your own sal vation.-A. E. Supp. Abode of Greatness. In the human heart there is a cham ber set apart where a certain guest may dwell, honored, reverenced, loved. The threshold of that chamber ls a lonely one, for none of the other ten ants cross it entering, and only the guests Itself ever issues forth irom ita high embrasure to bless, to act or to move among Its fellows. That guest is Greatness, rare inhabitant, more like a visitant from other spheres, bringing with it. an atmosphere of hushed power and amid the noise and hum of littlenesses. Phrase Traced to Dickens. "You are a daisy" ls used by Dick ens in "David Copperfield," m the sense of calling a person a daisy to express admiration, and at the same time to laugh at one's credulity. Steer forth says to young Copperfield: "Da vid, my daisy, you are so innocent of the worm. L*t me call you my daisy, as it is so refreshing to find one in these corrupt days so innocent and jr...opui&Licated. Ivly dear Cop perfield, the daisies of the field are I not fresher than you." I BERU SW!MS * _ * By LOUISE OLIVER. * Bert Van Buren stood waiting the "boss" editor to speak. The ter looked him over. "You-let see-you might get a ticket Beechmont. Mrs. Harding-Hainos, sculptor, is doing a group for s< thing or other and is going to the proceeds to the dog hosp Something like that, anyway. I neer an interview with the lady. 1 a camera. There, get along now! Bert's rebellion boiled over in corridor. "What's all this about?" lnquin feminine voice behind him. Bert turned smiling to the girl They went down to the street gether. "Say, Bertie, I'm leaving. "Why?" She laughed a little slyly. "Oh, like the little boy in the poem- . 'I've got the hives And a new straw hat, And I'm goin' back home Where my beau lives at.' " He stopped- as though a bullet put a hole In a vital spot. "I grat?late you, Molly," he managei get out. "I-hadn't an idea you v, engaged." "Well-I'm not exactly! I g?ei shouldn't have Bald that. But mol is making an awful fuss about my lng newspaper work and insist? u my going home and marrying a i she's picked for me." "And you?' She sighed. "I'm going to look ] over. If he suits my fancy I may A hour later, the young man fo himself unloaded at the entrances to the Harding-HaineB place. He '. preferred walking the quarter mik the house to get a few pictures of grounds. He had passed a group of elms wonderful shrubbery, and an Ital garden, and was approaching a ] gola, when he spied a swimming pi cool, marble lined and inviting, looked around. Things were quiet, cept for a woodpecker hammer near, and somewhere in the distal the dull hum o? a grass mower. He was hot and dusty and e since his tall: with Molly there 1 been a queer feeling in his head. 1 solitude of the place spelled safc Why not take a plunge? So in a f minutes he was in the bath, his clotl and camera stowed away beneath hydrangea. The water was soothingly refre ing and he swam slowly around, ke ing close to the shadow of overhas ing shrubs. And then-as he neat the place from which he had start he heard a voice, a woman's, qu close: >H^ "Here, Jenkins, put the tea wag by this stone bench. I'll wait here : Miss Mary." Bert thought of his clothes, not fi feet from the bench, and danger of d covery became imminent when t same person remarked: "When y go back. Jenkins, semi Green to n These shrubs are entirely too thh They need thinning around the wat You may go." Bert shivered. The water becai cold as the situation grew war Jenkins retreated and the voice apo no more, but Bert knew that mada probably Mrs. Harding-Haines herse was seated so near that he could ha touched her." Then "Mary" arrived. A car cai rapidly up the drive and stopped. Nc was the accepted time and Bert' w about to make a grab for his cloth when Green appeared upon the c posite side of the pool. There w nothing for it but to drop quickly bai Into the water under cover of tl bushes. But in the instant something hi happened.. Bert had seen the girl. H heart nearly stopped beating, fi "Mary" was his Molly. But hark! Madam was talking. A unwilling eavesdropper, Bert couhk help hearing. "Mary, now that you have had yoi own way and earned your own brea for a year and lived a real life, as ye call it, I want you to consider what say. When you were quite tiny, and certain young man also waB quil small, his mother and I betrothc you two. I've never mentioned it fe several reasons. Partly because changed my mind, as his family lot every cent of their money. But hi mother was my best friend and I thin I've done wrong In walting. If I pr< duce him, won t you try to like him? "Do I know him? What ls his nam? mother?" "Bertram Van Buren." "Mother!" Just then Green's quick eye notice a splash, and he exclaimed excitedly "Madam, there's a man in the watei If you and Miss Mary will please gi away, I'll call Jenkins and pull hin out!" Mrs. Harding-Haines rose quickly "Heavens! Come along to the house Mary. I'll call up the police Instantly.' But Molly, recovered of one shock was to have another. She had spied the end cf a well-known cravat pro truding from a bush beside her an? beside it a camera she had often used herself on her travels. She smiled and covertly blew them a kiss. "Oh, don't, mother!" she pleaded. "It's some poor fellow Just wandered in to got cool. Lot him go-do! Il you promise, I'll-I'll marry Mr. Ber tram Van Buren. Honestly I will, if he WaUkS i_u.tr. Copyright, 1916. by the McClure Newsp: per Syndicate.) AVOID SPKIKG COLDS. Neiden changes, high winds, ililli int; ?.. i > ).:?is.- mids aii<: j;r?""|-i"-. ;.?-.: 'M- spring colds ar* iiiiM \ i ii..' ;!!.<; . .H jfi?r?'iis .-nd ni ? l<i':.\ I . 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Now I feel as well as 1 ever did. Every suffering woman should tryCarduL" Get a bottle today. E-68 Will keep the yoong folks nt home. It will make them happy and con tented. Invincible Dayton Electric Lighting System ls the heot plnnt on the market. Complete pluntH installed us iow as SZ 76.00, Including: engine with built-in magneto. Cnn you afford to do without light?? JO- The Dayton ra, Ff] Electrical Mfg. flj $2 Company, ??4 R. H. MIDDLETON. Clark's Hill. S. C. Dealer in ELECTRIC LIGHT PLANTS AX WATER WOK KS. Master's Sale. State of South Carolina, Countv of Edgefield, Court Common Pleas. Mrs. Elizabeth C. Cobb-Plaintiff I - against Rilla Williams-De fendant. Pursuant to the decree in this cause, I shall offer for sale at public out cry to the highest bidder, be fore the Court House, Town of | Edcetield, County of Edgetield and State of South Carolina, on sales-1 day in May 1916, same being the) first day of said month, between the legal hours of sale, the follow ing described realty to wit: All that lot in the town of Edge field, S. C., as was bought by said Rilla Holloway from W. W. Adams, and containing One and three-fourth ?1-3-4) acres, more or less, bounded North by Sallie Dun ton, East and South by lands of j W. W. Adams and West by Pub lie Road, leading to Trenton, S. C., and lies near the Trestle of South ern Railway Company that crosses Beaver Dam Creek. Terms of Sale Cash: If purchaser] at said sale shall fail to comply with terms thereof within one hour) from the time ot said sale, said premises, upon direction of Plain tiff's Attorney, will be re-sold on sahl day at the risk of the former purchaser. Purchaser to pay for papers. J. H. CANTELOU, M ?ste! E. C., S. C. March 2?, 191?. ?D* ?9 ^^^M^^I?)?ME?1 ?fy* M? ?M'f?tffK. 5 ri o va SS! ?2 ni We invite the men and boys to come in and see our SPRING OXFORDS. A large shipment just received from the celebrated Crossett factory. Wear Crossett shoes once and you will always wear them. We have the latest toes and latest lasts in all of the popular leathers. Come in and get a fit from the large stock of stylish footwear. Dorn & Mims J <fa R E E W E L Wc have the largest assortment of pres ents in every department that we have ever shown. We have ordered largely of Clocks. Watches, Gold and Silver Jewelry, Sterling Silverware, Cut Glass and China. Every de partment is filled. It matters not what you want we have it or will order it out at once. Come in to see us. We have our entire stock marked very low, much lower than you find the same class of goods elsewhere. 70S Broad Street, Augusta, Georgia Southern Railway Premier Carrier of the South Passenger train schedules, effec tive October 24. 1915. Trains arrive from No. Time 108 Augusta, Trenton 8:20 am 130 Columbia, Trenton 9:40 am HO Aiken, Augusta 3:00 p m lUG Columbia, Augusta 8:3U p ic Trains depart for No. Time 109 Trenton, Columbia 7:20 a m 129 Trenton. Augusta 8:45 a m 131 Aug-Columbia-Aiken 11:45 a ra 107 Augusta, Columbia 7:30 p m Schedules published only as in formation and are not guaranteed. For further information apply to J. A. TOWNSEND, Ticket Agent. Edgefield S. C. Ford Automobiles We have the agency for Ford auto mobiles for the western part of Edge field county. There is no better car on the market for the money. The Ford owners who have thoroughly teBted these cars will tell you that. 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