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God's Love an j Tenderness Shown In His Reiteration of the Word "Come." This little word "come" is one o? the sweetest in the ??bie. The Bible begins with "corae," anti it ends with i "come." The Lord said unto Noah, "Come thoa and all thy house into the ark." The word occurs in nearly every section of the Bible, and in the last chapter we have this precious invitation. "And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. Aud he that heareth. let him say, Come. And he that will, let him take the water of life freely." The invitation of the text gives us a beautiful conception cf tho heart of God in its tenderness and iove for hu manity. While it is in an Old Testa ment seuing, it has a New Testament ring, Messianic in its nature, evan gelistic in its intensity. It speaks forth with wonderful power. Here God ad dresses the world. "Ho, every ore that thirsteth." This refers to the class of people who are dissatisfied with worldly things. Soul thirst is the soul's auxiety and long ing for that which is holy and spir itual. A professor in psychology once asked his class for a definition of the soul. One pupil gave the following: , "The soul is that which feels and i thinks and acts." After this, a little girl spoke up and said, "Professor, is the soul that thing within our breasts that aches so hard sometimes?" "Yes, that's it," said the professor, who him self was a child of God. What multitudes of thirsting souls throng this land today! They -re seeking in vain for the satisfaction i and peace which are to be found only in reconciliation with the heavenly father. They have wasted their sub stance in riotous living; they have | spent all; they are in want; they burn I with an unquenchable thirst. To them ! is opened up that well of water, spring- j ing up into everlasting life, which is ! able to quench the thirst of the soul ? and give them eternal satisfaction. i Invitation Is to All. "Ho, every one that thirsteth, come j ye to the waters." Here the invita tion includes everybody. The pro- j vision of grace is as free as the air we breathe. The river cf salvation j flows past us and the proclamation of the Lord is, "He that will, let him j take the water of life freely." "Hearken diligently unto me. ... ! Incline your ear, and come unto me.'" An active, responsive hearing is one of the conditions of salvation. The written word has been the moans of the conversion of some, notably of ' Augustine and Luther. But very of ten it is by the spoken word that the j truth is brought home to the soul. "Hear, and your soul shall live," is 1 the Old Testament Gospel. The New ? Testament is like trhto it: "Take heed j therefore how ye hear." "He that | hath ears, let him hear." "Buy wine and milk without money ' and without price." We might think, j from what has already been said, that is a strange way of buying when no money is in use; yet it is not so j strange when we understand the lan- ; guage of Christ To the church of j Laodicea he said, "I counseled thee to buy of me gold refined by fire, that i thou mayest become rich; and white j garments, that thou mayest clothe thy- j self." There are some few thingB thai ? money "annot buy, for the simple rea-1 con that they are too valuable to be ! purchased with money. No- price caa I be set upon them. Wisdom cannot be ! purchased with gold. "Ste is more ! precious than rubies." Salvation, the , supreme olessing to the human soul, | is beyond a money valuation. Blood : and not gold is the price of our re demption. Perfect Blessings. The provisions named in the text1 are likewise' threefold. "Let your soul delight itself in fatness." The bless- ? ings which Jesus gives are not only good, but they bring to the soul com plete satisfaction. The longing soul receives an abundant and free supply of grace. I read 3ome time ago of a man in Wales who, along the road j on a hot and sultry day, met a little girl, carrying an earthen pitcher full of spring water on her head. He said : to her, "My little girl, will you give , me a drink of water?" She lifted I the jug from her head and he drank ? from it, and it was so cold and pure 1 that it quenched his thirst, and he ' asked, "Where do you get that re- j freshing water?" She said to him, | "Do you see up yon?er a spring flow ing through the hedge?" "Yes, and j does that spring ever dry up?" Tho ! little girl said, "Yes, in the summer i time it dries up." "And what do you do then?" he asked her. "Do you see a path up the hill to another j spring?" she said. "Well, does it ever j dry up?" he inquired. "Yes," she i Bald, "in the very hottest summers it dries up." "And what do you do then?" the gentleman asked. Sho said, "We go up to the spring at the top. Dp, up there, it never goes dry." YP-S, as Christ said, "whosoever drink eth of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that 1 shall give him shall become in_hini a well of water springing up into~eter nal life." Here is a soul satisfaction that is perfect and abiding. That hour will come when we mud? face the reality of another world, beth with our loved ones and with our selves. May God grant that the ten der appeals of this invitation and the persuasion of the. Holy Spirit may .bring you into fellowship with him, Come.-Rev. William A. Waldo. . ! Offer of Eternal Lits Was ? ' Message the Savior Bore to a Sinful World. "Skin for skin, all that a man he I will he give for his Hie." The mi! lives only in his gold; yet surely, lt should come to such a pass, would let his gold go. If we coi know all the secret history of t people among whom we dwell, even in our own narrow circle, . should find somo burdened tc the lt extremity of endurance; and 3 what a small percentage of these it that are driven to suicide, and ev of these, how many lose their reas first! ls not our own life, and th of those we love, the most precio thing we have? !f it is ever in dang we do not thir.k of cost. Would t not sell all that we have to buy lil One would think, then, that tl offer of eternal life would be one wi which the world would close with tl utmost earnestness, and be only ti glad to obtain it^at any cost; th; such things as persuasion, appeal, e treaty, argument, need have no pla< here! Surely the herald of sue tidings will be everywhere welcom Is it so? Is not the fact in mo: melancholy contrast to this pleasin picture? To the young and gay, not the preacher's voice for the mo; part an unpleasant one? To the ma of business, is it not too often an ui meaning voice, heard but not pe ceived, as one hears the ticking of th clock while one reads an absorbin tale? Do not men embrace every e: cuse for not going to hear it ths their conscience will tolerate? Thi is strange if you think about lt Eternal Life Is for All. "Lay hold on eternal life." Eterna life must be to be had, then. I wo: der how many' of us have ever ser; ously thought of it! "Of course it is. Ah, that uof course!" "There's : mine of diamonds to be had if yo' will sell what you have and buy th' next field!" The world does no meekly say, "Of course," and ploi on its accustomed way, in such a case No! It opens eyes, and ears, am brain, and heart, and says, In an eage tone, "What! Do you mean it? Is i true?" and on receiving the necessary proof instantly begins to cast abou for the means of so enriching itself But when one says, in the midst 0 dying, sorrowing men, "Eternal lif( is to be had," all the reply their spirii gives us is "Of course." Think of 11 now. "I may live forever and ever! I may conquer death, may pass through it as a victor; bow down at its thrust, only to rise up again and laugh at its impotence; may bare my breast to its dart, only to bound up to life again, and shout joyously, 'O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?' " I may not only possess life a second time, but such a life as shall make this seventy years of song and sun shine, sighs and shade, a mere epi sode, which by comparison with the surroundings of the new life shall be but as darkness. I may spurn this hindering, cramping, fettering body of sin and death away from me. and in some finer, more ethereal shape rise beyond, upward, to a realm of purer, stronger life, to find all things re vealed, in new and brightened splen dor; to find life, and love, and work, and worship grander and diviner i hinge; to look back upon pain as we now look back on some troublous dream of the night that is passed away; upon all life's tears, as we think in our manhood of the sorrows of our childhood and youth; upon all the struggles and strifes and woes of these fleeting years as we look, from the ripe competency of our manhood, upon the apprenticeship through which we passed to what we are now. If this life of seventy years be the process by which we develop into and up to the divine, then it is undeniably beautiful; otherwise, human life is the darkest of problems. Divine Message. This, then, is the message of that Savior who came to earth "to bring life and immortality to light"-to teach men how they might begin now to live the life everlasting, and who set up his kingdom in the hearts of men. But you are not. to wait for the pos session of eternal life to happen to you: you are to- begin to possess; the action must be >cvrs, your thought, your choice, your resolve! Ah, my brother, he who would lay hold on eternal life must have empty hands; must empty them himself; ay, for tho time being, of anything he may hold. You must be willing to give up every kind of pleasure that you shall find incompatible with eternal life; eternal life must be the chief thing with you if you are to possess it; and you must prove it by putting that cup away-earnestly away. When we thus meet the conditions p.nd thus accept the efficacy of Christ's blood, we may claim the glad "prem ise that he hath promised us, even eternal life."-Rev. H. P. Lyman Wheaton, D. D. Glorified by God's Sunlight. How many things are there in life that, looked at from our point of view, are clouds only-things to be shrunk from, with nothing in them of brightness, of radiance and beauty. 1 They are out of the line of the sun. But when God's sunlight lights them , up how different they appear. They , are clouds still, but they are radiant j clouds, things of beauty and of love liness.-Exchange, ? ?r?y?DD8M? difHtint By JANE OSBORN. (Copyright, 1016. by tlie McClure News papor Syndicate.) The society columns and the Frozen star department store ads. in the daily papers had been full of it. Girls from the stjres going home at night had discussed it. According to some it was "'grand and perfectly elegant for those sweil girls to do it." To oth ers, more critical, it was either a case of wanting to get into print by doing something out of the way or a delib1 erate scheme to rob the poor girl who needed work for her dd ?ly bread. To Filbert Frozenstar, junior part ner of the dry goods firm of Frozen star Brothers & Co., it had a still dif ferent significance. It was part of his carefully laid plan to make an entrance into the hitherto closed por tais of the city's most exclusive cir cles. The proposition was this: The so ciety women in question were to en joy all the realism of the task. They were to punch the time clock with the other thousand employees of the store. They were to be allowed to sell goods in whatever department they chose, and for their sales they were to receive a 25 per cent commission for their favorite charity. The scheme worked better than he had expected, and on a certain Mon day morning in late winter the ranks of ten of the largest departments in the store were increased by the pres ence of ten new employees. In the neckwear department was the debutante, Wilhelmina Sedgwick. In the millinery department young Mrs. Sturtevant Shawger floated around in a new bouffant morning cos tume especially imported for the un dertaking from war-ridden Paris. In the blouse department, was the be earringed Mrs. Tom Bradgley, who was a great drawing card because of the rather piquant details of her re cent divorce proceedings. Most attractive of all, was Corinne Delacroix, at least from Filbert's per sonal viewpoint. She had chosen the more arduous task of selling furniture because, as she argued, furniture was more expensive even than French mil linery, and 25 per cent of ber sales there might really be worth while. Although Corinne herself was not especially wei! known-indeed she had made her debut onl> a few weeks before-as far as family and fortune went she was the most valuable ac quisition of them all. This debutante saleswoman, simply clad in a neat little frock of black, guiltless of a single ornament save for the brilliant sash she wore across . her slender body was "on the floor0 ahead of time that first morning and Hall Bingley, head of the department, was giving her instructions about her work when Frozenstar appeared. He had intended to get there in time to explain to Miss Delacroix in person just what her duties were to be. Of course, thought he, it was ab surd for him to be Jealous of a man like Bingley, who, in the eyes of Corinne, was probably no more than a butler or footman. That she had been talking with apparent ease to him and that she spoke to him again frequently during the day, was'noth ing to irritate Frozenstar. Still the irritating thing about it was that he was decidedly ruffled and that as the hours passed he became more and more so. Delightful little woman that she was, Frozenstar noticed that Corinne treated him with something more than frigid formality. She told him more than once that she admired the spirit of philanthropy that nad prompted him and she actually asked him to act as patron for a post-Lenten charity bazaar. This would mean a check for several hundred dollars, but Frozen star accepted eagerly. She really was delightful, charming, bewitching. And her sales were phenomenal. Corinne's commissions amounted to an amazingly large figure, larger by far than those of any other one of the "society saleswomen." What a pleasure it would be, thought Frozen star, to hand that check to Miss Dela croix. He would take it In person to her. Just as he was meditating this In his private office, the advertising I manager slouched into the room. "Have you heard the news?" he asked. "One of the men from the Morning Post just told me. But of :ourse it isn't going to get into print. That would never do. That Corinne Delacroix you thought you had up in the furniture department is really ' loafing in seclusion at her father's place at Palm Beach. You see. she thought it wasn't fair to rob some girl jf a job; yet she didn't want to miss jetting the commissions for charity. 5o she got hold of a pretty little salesgirl who needed work and got her . :o take the place. She happened to ?now a guy ia your store, too, en- j1 jaged to him, I think-and so she 1 jame around in Corinne's place and irranged to be in the department of .his man she is going to marry. Of course, no one Is any thc wiser ex cept a few of us that heard the story. 1 \nd it can't make a bit of difference ] ;o you so long as the people have 1 Deen fooled. I think it was quite a ihrewd idea, don't you?" 1 Frozenstar had a momentary vision )f the check he had made out in or ler to be a patron of the charity )azaar. ^ '"Yes, it was rather clever," was all 5 ie would say. 1 TOO 60 GD TO THROW A ?VA Y "Drippings" From Fried Lamb or Mut ton May Bc Made Into an Ex cellent "Gravy StocJ<." The housekeeper whose rule it is always to make a savory brown or creamed gravy of the drippings and meat-essence remaining in thc frying pan after veal, chicken or hamburg steaks have been cooked., will fre quently let the contents bf the pan be discarded, if it were used for frying mutton or lamb. This is on account of the quality of the fat that cooks out cf the meat, which is disagree able to many persons. But if- care has been taken not to permit any scorching during the frying, let a cup ful cf boiling water be poured into the pan after the meat has been removed, and let this boil up well, stirring with a- spocn, until all traces of the meat essence have been dissohred away from the pan. Strain this liquid into an earthen or agate bowl, dash a little cold waler into it, and set aside in a cool place. In a few hours the fat will have formed a solid cake, and can be removed, leaving a cupful of excellent "gravy stock;" this can be used for re-serving any left-overs of the aforesaid mutton or lamb, if wanted as hash or ragout, adding notably to the flavor and richness thereof; or it can be added to one's soup stock. The same method can be used with the dripping pan in which lamb or mutton has been roasted.-American Cookery. HOUSEHOLD HINTS A good furniture polish is eight ounces of sweet oil, four ounces tur pentine, two ounces ammonia. Apply with cloth and polish with woolen I cloth. After washing a white knitted jer? | Bey, put it on a coat-hanger to dry, j and hang it on a line in the air. lt will keep a better shape than if pegged on the line. Ground rice is excellent for clean ing white cloth. It should be applied with a piece of clean white flannel, j left for two or three hours, and then well brushed and shaken. i.jsty irons should be heated, rubbed on a piece of beeswax tied in j linen, and then with a coarse flannel j cloth, sprinkled with household salt This will give ? polish like glass. Sill: stockings should never be j Ironed. Wash them in soapsuds made with good white soap and lukewarm ; water and rinse in clear water of the ?ame temperature. Rough dry. Do not iron lingerie ribbons while damp if you want them to be soft. Wrap while wet smoothly around a big bottle covered with thick muslin, j and press with a cool iron when dry. j If the knob has come off the ket- i take a cork, put a screw through I it, push the screw through the lid of the kettle and screw a burr on the I end. You will have a knob that will j not come off nor get hot. Spinach, German Style. Cook the spinach by steam (in a steamer) or in a very little water, in a i closed vessel, over a slow fire until j tender; then chop fine. For every | pint of spinach mince one-half cupful ; fat pork, and fry until crisp. Turn j Bpinach into the frying pan with fried meat, and heat thoroughly; then add one-third cupful of vinegar or lemon juice for each pint of spinach and sea son with salt. Turn at once into serv ing dish and*garnish with sliced hard boiled egg. Rhubarb and Raisin Pie. Did any .of the readers ever put ! raisins over the top of the rhubarb, j about two inches apart? No more plain rhubarb pies for me after try ing them with the raisins. Another thing I do which perhaps other sis ters do not, and that is, I never peel my rhubarb for pies. I wash it and wipe each stalk carefully and then slice it into the plate. I think lt makes a much richer pie that way. Boston Globe. Peach a la Bordelaise. Use canned peaches for this. Put ! them in a flat gratin dish and pour I over the following mixture: Two j ounces of butter, two ounces of flour, one ounce of sugar, half a pint of milk and peach sirup, four eggs. Cook but ter, flour, sugar and milk in a stew pan. When ccld, add yolks and whipped whites of the eggs last Bake half an hour in moderate oven. Creamed Ceiery and Egg. A leftover of creamed celery was rewarmed by setting dish in cold water and letting come to boil, then pushed to less hot place on stove. Just before removing from heat, two leftover hard-boiled eggs were chopped and cut inte the cream. Served on toast as a supper dish. Fish Toast. Take one cupful of cold flaked fish, free from skin and bones. Heat in water sufficient to moisten; add but ter, pepper and ss.lt. When hot pour on slices of buttered toast, garnish with eggs poached, in muffin rings. To Clean the Range. An ordinary blackboard eraser is splendid to keep near the kitchen range to wipe off the top; the range is kept clean and does not need to be washed or polished but once or twice i week. Needs No Starch. Fine damask linen needs no starch. [( sufficiently dampened and ironed inti] dry it will have all the neces sary dressing. OoMriabt 190!', by C. ?. Zimmerman Co---No. 44 IF all the unhappy homes not one in a hundred has a bank account and not one home in a hundred who has a bank account is unhappy. It seems almost foolish to put it off any longer, v/hen it is such a simple, easy matter to start a bank account. _ BANK OF EDGEFIELD OFFICERS : J. C. Sheppard, President; B. E. Nicholson, vice-President E. J. Mim9. Cashier; J. H. Allen. Assistant Oashier. DIRECTORS : J. C. Sheppard, Thos. H. Rainsford, John Rainsford, B. E. Nicholson, A. S. Tompkins. C. C. Fuller. E. J. Mims. J. H. Allen. Low Summer Fares to ountain, Lake and Seashore VIA For complete information regarding Summer Excursion fares, Week-end and Sunday fares, and for illustrated_and in formative literature about cool and de: lightful places at which to spend the summer or vacation, call on J. A. TOWNSEND, Ticket Agent, Edgefield, S. C. F. R. McMILLIN, District Passenger Agent. Jackson and'Ellis Sts., Augusta, Ga. NOT BUSHED OUT Although the fire was all around us only a corner of our warehouse was burned. We have storage for 8,000 bales. Our office was not touched, and our business goes on as usual. DAVISON & FARGO, Augusta, Ga. COTTON FACTORS, DORN & MIMS