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How Each and All Carry the Three Chief Burdens of Life. j In the Christian life the forms of ;warfare may vary but the fight is one. 'Burdened people in apostolic days were carrying just the same loads our bur dened people are carrying through our streets today. The burden may have been done up differently, it muy have had an unfamiliar cover, but if we .stripped it of its wrappings we should ?find a modern commonplace. If a hun jdved Romans of the olden days and a hundred Britons or Americans of our ?own day could meet together like pil grims at some friendly hostel along life's way, and if they could just un |wrap their burdens and display them, they would look at one another in sur prise, for their sense of nationality 'would be swallowed up in the profound consciousness of a vital kinship. And I will begin with the burden of. sin. Sin is revolt against the holy sovereignty of God; It is enlistment and allegiance on the side of the enemy of God. Sin is essentially a change of flags; it is a deliberate de sertion from the flag of the holy God to the black - flag of mammon and darkness. I need not elaborate this. I would only repeat that at the root of all sins we shall find the common sin of rebellion. Now, the revolt against the holy flag of God marks the entrance into bondage. I know that the bondage may be concealed, just as we may intertwine flowers and green ery through the links of a chain until i't looks more like a garland than a fet ter. But let any man try to escape from the broad road and he will find that the gay wreaths disclose them selves as mighty chains. On the broad way the present is a tyranny and the past a debt. Such is the bur den of sin. Well, how can we help to bear one another's burdens? First of all perhaps we had better say that we cannot do it. No man can touch the burden of his brother's guilt. We can not get back into his yesterdays and make the crooked straight. We cannot go back and sweeten the fountain of an evil from which guilt derives its bitterness. We can do nothing for souls who are burdened with the guilt of sin except to' bring them to the Savior, to the fountain that is open for sin and uncleanness. But that is a glorious sharing of the awful load. We can share it by counsel. We can share it by gentle guidance. We can share it by mighty intercession. Let us now look at another burden which was found everywhere in the ancient world, and is equally common place in our own time. I will call it the burden of temperament. And this is what I mean : Even when a man has found the cross of Christ, and sin has been forgiven, and the great act of renewal has taken place, he has still to work out his own salvation. When the seed of the regenerate life has been imparted it has still to be nur tured and matured, and it has to be matured amid the special constitutions and conditions of the individual life. That is to say, conversion does not an nihilate differences of temperament, and thereby make us all alike, reduc ing our warfare to one certain form of strife. Every regenerate man has to 1 fight the good fight of faith. Now can we help a brother to carry the burden of his own temperament? Most assuredly we can. Take the man who is like a powder magazine, explosive, inflammatory, full of dry and touchy material, always ready to go off. What can we do with that nian's burden? Well, wc can very easily increase it or we can relieve and lighten it. We can help him into lib erty, or we can help to sink him into servitude. We can throw lighted matches about his magazine, or we can spray cooling influences about his life. And the real meaning ol helping one another is to consider one another from the standpoint of chivalry and love, and to determine that by our conduct and demeanor we will help to fashion the knight in our brother and give him strength in the realms of grace with holiness. There is one more burden which I will name, and which can be found everywhere-the burden of incomplete ness. And what I mean is this: No man is an integer. No man is more than a fraction. The New Testament teaches that no man is the whole body ; he is only a limb. Humanity is the body, and the individual is only a member. One man is an eye, another is a foot. And so I speak of the bur den of incompleteness. God has made us dependent upon one another, and every man is designedly incomplete. It is therefore the love design of our God that we surrender ourselves to one an other in order that we may bear one another's burdens, and by our own in dividual fullness complete the gap in another man's needs. To live a selfish and exclusive life is to rob humanity of its due. and to dwarf and sterilize ourselves.-J. H. Jowett, ia the Chris tian World. Plant Virtues to Overcome Evil. You will find it harder to uproot faults than to choke them by gaining virtues. In every person who comes nea? you look for what is good and strong; honor that; rejoice in it; and, as you can, try to imitate it ; and your ?faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their times comes.-Ruskin. The Only Safe Place. I Put your faith where it will be safe; ?and the only place where a faith over ican be safe is in the shrine of an ac* .tlon.--Phillips Brooks. PASSION THAT MAKES THIEVES Emerson's Declaration Concerning Book Collectors Would Seem to Have Been Arr.p'y Justified. Ralph Waldo Emerson once declared that book-collectors were all thieves. "The passion of classification masters the mind and makes rogues of honest men." The case of a professor of the ology in the University of Berlin, who had just been convicted of stealing books from the university, reminds a writer in the Boston Transcript of Em erson's saying and of the following in cidents : "W. S. Shaw, the founder of the Bos ton Athenaeum, used to steal from the private libraries of bis friends any hooks he wanted to make his darling Athenaeum complete. Collectors of shells steal 'ornngias* from the ftrin nells' mantelpiece and Mrs. Collin's house at Siaseonsot. Mellish Moore told me that the books stolen from the Boston Athenaeum are mostly from the theological department, so that i they are forced to keep those locked up. But the hooks most often taken are patent reports, by lawyers." Pro fessional and collecting morals must have improved since Emerson, wrote those words in his Journal In th* bf ties ; he goes on and adds: "But even in comparatively late days I have seen some queer instances of collecting zea1 -as, for example, this: A couple ol respectable Boston business men, one of whom collected weapons, visited n very swell house in Rhode Island once in the absence of the family; they were admitted by the aged caretaker; while in the drawing-room, one of these reputable gentlemen engaged the old custodian in conversation while the other slipped under his coat the au thentic tomahawk of a noted Indian chief-and got away with it. And the queerest part of the matter was that the collector used to boast of the achievement when exhibiting the toma hawk as an item of his treasures.' " LIGHTENS BURDEN OF GRIEF ? - i Hard to Overestimate the Influence of a Smiling Face on Those in Suffering. It would be Impossible to deny that ? love and sympathy possess a great influence over the whole course of j our lives. now many, let the readei : ask himself or herself, are daily drift ing astray for the want of these vir? j tues? The thought of having no ono to care for them, no one to listen to their plans with a word of encourage ment or sympathy in their failures;! no one to soothe or heal bodily suf ferings, or to whisper a word of com- j fort when bowed down in sorrow, has caused many hearts to fill with dark ness and despair. The road to pro mote love and sympathy is open to all, there are no barrei". gates to pre- ' vent tin entry, no one ready to prose cute for trespassing; all are free to enter. Its best visible and invisible advertisement is a smiling face and a kind heart. As the sunshine is to 1 the Howers, so is the influence of the face which meets you with a smile; as the rain moistens the parched ground and brings forth the fruit of: the earth, equally so is the burden of '. invisible grief lightened by the hcip of a gentle heart. For Lovers of Sardonix. Tf you have an eye open for a good ' sardonix cameo you will be pretty sure, sooner or later, to come across one that will make you glad. There are many imitations of sardonix and , it ought to be part of your search to make sure that you know the real from ' imitation. Often you can come across a good piece in a collection of old , jewelry that is being sold because the , owners do not appreciate its Intrinsic artistic value. Sometimes-especially if you travel in out-of-the-way corners [ of the glob?-you may come* across a good piece in a little pawn shop. Per- ! haps in your own family, stowed away ; in the bottom box or jewel case with various articles of adornment of an-1 other generation and another taste, , you may be able to find the precious ? cameo In sardonix you are looking for. As a usual thing the old settings are I the best, though if the cameo needs a new setting any good jeweler will put the right sort of frame or setting on your piece.-Exchange. What's the Answer? A movie actress said at a Bar Har bor tea: "A girl can't dress in less than nine?1 ty minutes-and a ninety-minute toilet is only an ordinary one at that. A real . toilet, which includes a hair-waving, manicuring, and massage, requires three hours. "The less a girl puts on the longer : it takes her to do it. Girls never wore as little as they do today, and never! was it necessary to be as careful and thorough about one's dressing. "Some men grumble because a girl : takes so long to dress, but I say to [ them : ? " 'Would you rath'-r walt for an at-. tractive girl or have an unattractive ! girl wait for you?' " Her Immediate Needs, The other day a lady was knocked ! down in Regent street b a horse, but ' happily escaped with a few scratches, j A gentleman rescued her and said: j "Can I L'et you anything":" She (much out of breath and gasp ing with excitement)-"Oh-oh-can you kindly get me-" 1I<-"Some brandy?" She--"No-not drink-some safety pins. I feel I'm falling all to pieces," - London Til-Bits. Ultimate Victory Will Crown the World Work of the Son of God. "He went forth conquering and to conquer."-Rev. ?:?. Time was when tho church dwelt al most exclusively upon the sufferings and sorrows of Christ, and overlooked his majesty and glory. It thought of him as the lamb of God, and forgot to think of hun as "the lion of the tribe of Judah;" it thought of him as a weary man before his foes, and forgot to think of him as a mighty conqueror, who possesses invincible power. In the book of Revelation he ls represent ed in the latter aspect. He Is not rep resented as coming to his kingdom. He is already a king. On his head are many crowns. Once he was scornfully rejected by the people, who cried, "The Crucified! may his name and memory be blotted out." Now everything is changed. He rides forth "conquering and to conquer." To this vision of Christ it behooves us to turn in the present day when the larger portion of the world is con vulsed by fightings without and fears within. He is the one upon whom the hopes of humanity center; the one who is at the head of the forces which makes for the establishment of the kingdom of God on the earth. He is represented as taking the ag gressive. Not satisfied with ucting on the defensive, he goes forth. His army ls not one of occupation, hut of aggres sion. His presence as its leader and commander is inspiriting. Someone has said that an army of sheep would have been formidable led by Napoleon ; for he would have transformed them into lions. So we, catching the spirit of our leader, became heroic, and go forth with him to meet the great world struggles, without fear. He goes forth to conquer. This idea is put in the strongest possible form "conquering and to conquer;" that ls, victory succeeding victory. He tri umphs over nil oppositions, but not nt once. Many a fierce struggle is called for before the forces of evil are van quished. But the cause of righteous ness will win in the end. We follow a leader who has never been be:iten. He came into this world to destroy the power of sin. It was a gigantic struggle, and at first he seemed to be baffled. Looked at from the human point of view his death was a failure; but it was in reality a victory. By it he vanquished sin and death. Through all his earthly life he was a victor. He conquered disease; he ruled the forces of nature; he cast out evil spirits; he delivered men from the power of evil. Never once did he go down to defeat. The work of con quest which he began upon earth he ia now carrying on with greater power. The power by which Christ conquers is the same as that by which he con quered when here In tho flesh. Ile conquers by the power of truth and love. His weapon of conquest is the cross. In the epistle to the Hebrews Jesus is represented as making "one sacri fice''of sin forever," and then sitting down at God's right hand, "from henceforth expecting until his enemies be made his footstool" (Chap. 10:12, 1.'?). His expectation of coming vic tory was based upon his sacrifice for sin. He knew of no greater power than the cross. It was the highest revelation of divine suffering, redeem* ing love, conceivable. No greater pow er unto salvation can he brought to bear upon the hearts of men. It ia God's utmost. This is the weapon which we today are to yield in the battle for righteous ness. "Tho weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but spiritual." They may appear to be feeble, but they are "mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds." The cross Is no failure. Following the crucified, we follow a conquering king.-Rev. Jameg Campbell, D. D. CHRIST'S SUPREME SACRIFICE His Earthly Life, Strong and Beautl. ful, Was a Journey Toward Death on the Cross. Onr Lord's life on earth, strong and beautiful though it was, was really at the same time lils procedure toward death. He lived as one laying down his life, not merely in one great sacri fice at the close, but from step to step along his whole earthly history. With no touch of the morbid or the fanati cal, yet his course, in practice, had to be one of self-impoverishment, of lone liness, of acquaintance with energetic hostility of sin and sinners. It had to be so if it was to be faithful. Ile knew not where to lay his bend ; he endured the contradiction of sinners against himself ; he came unto his own, and his own received him not. Even his friends, whom he loved, and who loved him in their imperfect way, did not love him wisely or magnanimously, and constantly became occasions of temptation which had to be resisted. Pain and trial were tho inevitable characters of the work given him to j do. It lay In his calling to put a strong and faithful negative, on the natural desire for safety, for happiness, for ! congenial society and surroundings, for free and unembarrassed life. All j this he had steadily to postpone to a period bayond the grave, and mean while make his way to the final crisis, at which, under a mysterious burden of extreme sorrow, accepted as the Savior's proper portion, he died for I our sins.-Robert Rainy. ie Life Insurance Co. writes more Life Insurance than any company in America except one. They have lowest rates with dividends and free disability clause of all companies in the United States. E. J. NORRIS, Agt. The Human Factors In Good Service There are three parties to every tele phone conversation-the party calling, the trained operator, and the party who answers. All three share alike the respon sibility for quick and accurate telephone service. The calling party should give the cor- . rect number in a distinct voice, speak ing directly into the transmitter, and wait at the telephone until the party an swers or the operator reports. The called party should answer promptly. Patience on the part of the telephone user and the telephone operator is also es sential to good service. When you Telephone-Smile SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY J. J. Roach, Manager, Aiken. S. C. F. E. GIBSON, Presidents LANSING B. LEE, Sec. and Treas. The Besi Time to Build is Now Free booklets on Silos, Barns, Implement Houses, Residences, etc., with suggestions of great value. Also "Ve Planary" service through the Lumber Excharge of Augusta. Ask for further information if interested. The service is with out cost. Woodard Lumber Co, 'Phone - AUGUSTA - - - 158 - GEORGIA Cualit'/ MOTTO .Service ? ar t?o rd Fire uranee Co. jndred and seven (107) Writes more Fire In han any fire insurance in America. ll be perfectly safe with d Fire Polic)'. NORRIS, Agt. Kemp Eepair Shop; I have purchased the interest of my brother, Calhson Kemp, in our repair shop and hereafter the busi ness will be conducted in my name. I have employed Mr. R. N. May son to do my horse shoeing and as he ia an expert workman we wantyou to give him a trial. Bring your horse or mule to our sh^p when it again needs shoeing and ? i con vinced as to Mr. Mayson's expert shoeing. Weare prepared to do all kinds of repair work on short notice. A large supply of first-class material always on hand. J. D. KEMP. Edgefield, S. C. Notice to the Public. I have installed a FEED MILL for grinding meal, corn on stalk, velvet beans in pod or on vine, oats in sheaf, or any way you want ground. Your Patronage Solicited W. A. Pardue For Sale by G. W. WISE, Trenton, S. C. And All Good Dealers HARRIS' PRESSING CLUB I take this?means of letting the people know that I have re-opened my pressing club, and will appre ciate their patronage. I am better prepared than ever to clean and press all kinds of garments, both for ladies and gentlemen. All *ork guaranteed. Let me know when you have work and I will send for it and make prompt delivery. Wallace Harris Sheppard Building Down Stairs DR J.S. BYRD, Dental Surgeon OFFICE OVER P0ST0FFI0E Residence 'Phone 3 7-R. Office 3.