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for Great Success We are deeply grateful to the people for the splendid success of our an nual Summer Clearance Sale.. It was the biggest and best sale we have ?ver held. . i , ? In order to show our appreciation we will continue to offer special bargains in every department thoughout the month of August. Our representative is now in New York buying our fall stock for our Mil linery and Ladies' Ready-to-Wear departments. She will buy a larger stock than ever of suits, coats, cloaks and dresses. This department/ which has grown so popular, will be greatly enlarged. m wm RELATION S. S. TO CHRCH. I (Continued from page One) with it. Get ready for it to take ad vantage of all the good there will be in it for the Kingdom of God. When a reform starts it generally ends vic torious, because behind it and in front of it is God, and if the church is not, it is because the members are short sighted and haven't the vision which they will have bye and bye. The Sunday School has passed through all the time of criticism, abuse, and misunderstanding. People have for the most part, given up the idea that it is a rival of the church ' and have come to know it has a place 1 where the members of the church go, or should go, to study the Bible, the text book of the church, the message 2 of God to us. For grown up people 1 this is one of the purposes of the Sun- r day School, to study God's word and t then to teach it to the younger ones t of the church. If you do not know the c Bible, that is the only place in all t probability, where you can go for its c study. If you know it, then it is your * place to go and teach. If you as dea cons and experienced members of the t church, or the most experienced .that p your church has in its membership, s do not teach the younger children, T who will? You need to teach, because i you yourself will derive benefit. p The Sunday School too, is a place F where children can be instructed in v the habit of church attendance, for h it is the church they attend when they o are in Sunday School. This is very t important. As a child I always went v to Sunday School, loved to go, and 0 now that I am older, no matter how 0 inconvenient, well nigh impossible, 1 nor how many hundreds of Sundays ?J I have, of necessity been absent, I ' am in the habit of going to Sunday d School. When the time comes to go, r if some family duty prevents, I say 3 to myself, I want to go to Sunday ? Schoel to-day, but having weighed the s matter well, I think that what I have learned in the Sunday School concern s ing the duties of life, directs me to d stay at home. If I am sick, unable to s go when the time comes, I say to my- c self, "If I were up, I would be in the ii Sunday School to-day," so whenever a it is right for me to go, I am there, ii If I should live to be a hundred years n old, and never be able from now on, t to go to Sunday School, I still have Lhe Sunday School habit. It cannot be broken. It is on my mind and heart 30, no matter how poor the Sunday School is, the child ought to go, to formulate the habit of church- going, md the older ones likewise to hold on L.o the habi: and to teach the youth ;he value of the idea and reason for ts value. In the Sunday School too, the child earns the habit of giving. Each child mould have a contribution. Of course ;he parents must furnish it, and I vould rather the child would take a jenny to Sunday School every Sun lay than a rive-dollar gold piece once i year. The latter would be spectac llar, but would not teach the child ;he habit of giving. In the Sunday behool the children md young people can learn to work, mt they - cannot do it if the older nembers of the church are not there 0 direct them. There are little things hey can do in the class room, they :an act as ushers and take up collec tons, and one of the best means of :hild development is in the public ixercises in the Sunday Schcol. Young people like movement, ac ion, excitement. That is nature. Yet leople are saying all the time "What hall we do with the young people? ["hey are so worldly minded, .io anx ous to be running from place to dace." Every generation of young leople has done that way since the vovld began, and the older people lave said the same thing over and iver again. There is a remedy for it, iut it costs a great deal, will mean york, so I suppose most of us will go n complaining until the* Lord calls ut a pioneer to right the situation. ?hen maybe many of the church will iegin to criticize and wonder what's he use of ?.11 this agitation and pre set that no good will come of it. The emedy is to give the young1 people a ubstitute. They may pull hack at rst and try Job's patience, but keep weet and go on trying. The exercises suggested for mis ionary, temperance and children's ay will give a fine opportunity for ervice. Young women students, our ollege boys and girls can take these 1 charge during the summer months nd many of them will take delight i doing it. A young student said to ie the other day, "In this great day, hose who can serve and will not should be ostraciseo." There is nothing that will bring out a Sunday School more than these public exercises, because it teaches the children confidence, and becomes the means of discovering the various gifts of the children and young peo ple. Some people have gone through the world/ arid to their graves undis covered by themselves or any one else, because we, all, as George El iot says, "are well wadded with stu pidity." The Sunday School is a dem ocratic institution, because sometimes the children of the most humble are the most gifted and are thus enabled to lift their families to public recog nition. The memorizing of the literature and songs and the importance and publicity of the occasion, makes the child feel that what the church stands for is extremely important and as they grow older, they are better fitted to take a place in the church from ac tual practice. Another important relationship be tween the church and the Sunday School is the opportunity the Sunday School has of teaching the doctrines of the church, in fact about the only practical opportunity except in the home, and the opportunity to teach about the great denominational en terprises, what they are and what they stand for. I think a good plan is for the teachers to take their classes to the Hospital, or Orphanage and let them see while young what these things are. None of this can be done without hard work and consecration. The plans and methods which are ours for the asking are good enough, but it is time for us to stop reading plans and go to working them out. This last relationship. We should make the Sunday School an example to the young people of what the church really stands for and how the gospel messags should be carried to all the world : and the most important thing, let the students in the schools see such zeal and enthusiasm in our service for the Master and such ad herence to the purposes of the church that they will be electrified thereby and become, by tho hundreds, great lights in the world for the spread of the gospel in every nook and cranny of the dark and sin cursed world. All we need is to seize the opportunity. The time and the occasion is ours and the victory cometh. An Announcement. Mr. Pollock and Miss Lola Trax will be in Edegfield on Thursday, August 21, to present the cause of equal suffrage to our people. ] Mrs. Salley and Mrs. Duncan of Aiken will I accompany them. Mrs. Duncan will be glad to organize a league for the study of citizenship and its respon sibilities. Our men will not forget Mr. Pollock and he wall receive a warm welcome from our county. Miss Trax has lately toured Georgia in the cause of equal suffrage and i's a charming speaker. She will be in our State two months-in our Congressional dis trict, one week. Particulars next week. t - Notice. Notice is hereby given that books of subscription to the capital stock of the Dixie Highway Hotel Com pany, will be opened at the office of Sheppard Brothers, and at the office of the Clerk of Court at Edgefield, S. C., on Friday the 8th of August, 1919. J. C. SHEPPARD, Ch'm., Board of Corporators. JOHN A. HOLLAND, The Greenwood Piano Man. The largest dealer in musical instru ments in Western South Carolina. Sells pianos, self-player pianos, organs and sewing machines. Reference: Tho Bank of Greenwood, the oldest and ?trongest Bank in Greenwood County ; ARRINGTON BROS. & CO. Wholesale Grocers and Dealers in Corn, Oats, Hay and all Kinds of Seeds Corner Cumming and Fenwick Streets On Georgia R. R. Tracks Augusta, Ga. Distributors of Marathon Tires and Tubes. None better, but our price is less YOUR PATRONAGE SOLICITED See our representative, C. E. May. NOW IN New York Our buyer is now in New York and Eastern markets buying a large fall stock for every department. Watch for announcement of ar rivals of new goods later. Daiteh Bros. ?SHBBH