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?KV. W. BRUCK ix ?v I ,i :, Native of O oonoo, Opposes Amnlga mation of Politics and Religion. , ( Birmingham Age-Herald.) Rev. W. Bruce Doyle, pastor of the Presbyterian church, Marion, re cently delivered a sermon to his con gregation which he has given to tho press to '>P iiomj lQ opposition to tho constitutional amendment. In commenting on this sermon the Matron Standard says' editorially: "The sermon is beyond question one the most scathing rebukes to the rgy, who would mix politics and religion, that has ever, within our recollection, appeured In a State pa per. There ls not a superfluous sen tence from the beginning to the end, and it is a document, If answered at a!!, must bc by reason and authority and not by assertion. The waving of the hand or the playing upon senti ment will not uproot the minister's logic. It is dynamite applied with force and effect, lt sounds the toc sin that 'Thus far thou can go and no further.' if the influence of the church and Its ministry ls to con tinue ns now." Rev. Doyle's Sermon. The Rev. Doyle says: "It Is not my purpose to get mixed up in the issue now pending, but my sermon wa,s for the public, and I have no abjection to furnishing you witli a synopsis of it, and you are at lib erty to print lt If you wish." The sermon Is as follows: "Render, therefore, unto Caesar ,the things which are Caesar's, and into God the things that are God's." -Matthew xxl!. 21. "My kingdom is not of this world" -John xviii, 36. The words of tlx text were spoken by the Lord Jesus Christ and form the basis of our thought while we speak of the spirituality of the churches. From Abraham unto Christ the government of the church and Jew ish nation was the same. A member of one, a law of one; an officer of one was the member, the law or the officer of the other. God made a covenant with a people and that peo ple had a State and a church; for both God supplied the polity. In those days, domestic, social, civil and ecclesiastical affairs were wrapped In the same bundle. Such a condition was, in the wisdom of God, necessary in those days. Ani mal life was then in its infancy and the human family was but a youth. Influences, therefore, were strongly felt. The amalgamation of church and State was a safeguard for the society of the royal race. But since Jesus' coming the or ganization of church and State have been in the wisdom of God, better administered separately. Jesus said that his kingdom was not of this world; that we must draw a line between the manage ment of Caesar's government and the propagation of the gospel. Je sus said that lie was a king, and it was written over His head on the cross in three tongues, yet he con vened no congress, mobilized no army, and set up no throne in His .^eity. Jesus forgave sins, hut paid yvxes with Roman coln. These Hebrew missionaries whom Jesus sent Into the world did go into Asia at once, but could not carry with them the government of Juden. They had no time to waste on political orations or civic teach ing. The field was white unto the harvest and the fruit was to be gathered by preachers Into the church of God and not the body poli tic of Canaan's Land. The contest Roi the world was earnestly begun at were not to do obeisance to the throne of Solomon or Hezekiah. It was enough that they should ?liter the kingdom not of this world, be enrolled in tho Lamb's Book of Life, enlist with the army that fights with the sword of the spirit. "Go y.e Into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature, teaching them to observe all things whatsoever 1 have commanded you." That ls the commission given to the heralds of the good news from Cal vary's cross and the empty tomb of the risen Lord. That is the business of the church to-day. Jesus and His apostles lived and labored under the worst of laws, the darkest of political clouds and vilest of civic slums. Yet from the records of their lives there conies to us not one sentence as to how men should vote or whnt method should bo fol lowed in procuring political reform through the civil laws or courts. When the record of the life work of my Lord and Master Is silent on Gre cian festivals, Roman gladiatorial Snows, Institutions of slavery, meth ods of voting, nominations of kings, and regulations of intoxicants, why shouM I conclude that political Is sues are flt for the sacred desk when I have sinners before my face, the gospel in my hand and see that hell await? tho enemies of the cross? but the conquered ones In Christ's Time. The church is not to equip dental colleges, maintain law schools or teach agriculture. Yet the . church has as much right to tell a farmer how he shall plow as to tell a suf fragette how he must vote. The ehurch has no authority for making law* for the country. Of a truth members are to have u share In malntaing a decent government, and by no means are they relieved of voting in their commonwealth, but this they do as citizens of un earthly country and not as a church of God whose kingdom ls no; of this world. The church, as such, has no more right to make laws for the Legisla ture than the Legislature has to make laws for the management of the church's work. The church has no more right to say who shall be elected to State office than the State has to say who shall be made an el der or a deacon. The sheriff has no right to tell your pastor what he shall preach and your minister has no right to dictate what ticket you shall vote. . If the preacher votes the Socialist ticket, thc Republican elders have no more right to com plain than a .Democrat who sells rum. Laws of Church. The church may make laws to gov ern its own internal affairs, but lias no right to mnke laws that touch people outside the church. If we, as a church, claim the right lo make a law for one unconverted man of the world, then we must concede to the infidel the privilege of making laws for us. The church, as such, has no right to make laws to regu late a saloon keeper's business, and on the same principle we deny him a vote when we elect elders and deacons. The church has no right to make a law which carries with lt a pen alty that touch's a man's time,money or person. "Put up the sword." "Vengeance is mine, 1 will repay, saith the Lord." "If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peace ably with all men." "Be ye wise ns serpents and harmless as doves." The penalty for the violation of God's laws is in God's bands. As a church we have no right to punish a man by fines, stripes or Imprison ment. Having no right to admin ister such a penalty, we have no right to make a law carrying with it such a penalty for some other power to enforce. The church ls a spiritual organi zation, dealing with the affairs of the soul and its relationships, and not a temporal society dealing with material matters. Now, brethren, .much of our church trouble ls caused by the In troduction into the church of foreign mattera. Much of our civic discord is caused by injecting into pol?tica! realms organized religious effort 01 intolerance. Do you not know, brethren, thal the tangling up of ecclesiastical and political matters has caused on eartl more torture, bloodshed, death ant hell than any amalgamated product of sin? Nero's Work. Who does not remember the blood chilling stories of Nero's work' Who has lorgotten the history oft religion-.part Christian, pnrt Pagai and part Heathen-that was thrus upon the Teutonic peoples with tin sword and the flames? Who doei not think of the Mohammedan knifi In Asia? Who has forgotten tin develish inquisition of .Spain-th result of mixing politics and relig ion and cementing them togethe with fanaticism and varnishing then with intolerance? Your chlldrei can relate the history of blood Mary, and you can recall the scan dals and things moer devilish con nected with Henry the Eighth. Wh does not know that between Rosto and Port Royal mothers have bc held the bodies of their butchere babes, husbands have seen the! wives die before their faces, an maiden and young manhood hav given their blood to paint the sand of the Atlantic States? Who doe not know that this has been the hat vest already reaped in this countr from sowing ecclesiastical and polli leal seed3 in the same garden planted In denominational ' f**Otrj fertilized with religious faaatlcisi and cultivated with the aggrandizt mont of political preferment? The Presbyterian church, and ei pecially our branch, has always stoo for religious tolerance and polltlci freedom. In-this age of reform; at th time of temperance legislation; I these Jays of flags and procession! at this time of cl vie league and al societies; at this time when mora It y and spirituality have In the cor mon mind little discernable diffo ence; at this time when men mal only a distinction where there ls vital difference; at iv!s time it hi occurred to me that there should 1 a blazing of the path between tl things that be of Caesar and tl things that be of God. Let the pe pie have the light that comes fro ? ? ^ THE RAVAGES OF WAR. v > y' While all nature is clad t her richest vesture of foliage and flow ers, the air balmy and fragrant, the sky BO cloudless, clear and purely beautiful that God alone ls to be seeu In heaven, and In the midst of profound peace, 1 come to recall again the sad memories of war. We need not dwell now on the waste and cruelty of war. These stare us wild.1 ly in the face, like lurid meteor lights, as we travel the. page of his tory. We see the desolation nnd death that pursue Its demoniac foot steps. Every nation must exist in one of two conditions-pea-e or war. The former ls a Btate of health; the lnt ter is abnormal. War settles no questions, decides no issues. It is a resort to physical force because the Intellectual power engaged has fail ed to compass Its object or attain its purpose. In what engagement of the late Civil War did an idea origi nate bearing on the subject In dis pute? In the mouth of what can non and In the muzzle of what ride were found a major and a minor promise from which a logical con clusion could be drawn? What in struction did the blade of sword or point of bayonet furnish? What mortal wound presented a fact, or what death established a proposi tion? War may silence argument, suppress speech, and muzzle the press, but lt carries conviction no where. lt neither enlightens Judg ment nor convinces reason. War brings upon a nation great sorrow. Sorrow is sacred; it is the lot of humanity; it ls the crucible In which the human heart is purified and sub limed; *1t is the retort in which the soul is refined. There is no great life without a great sorrow. lt teaches charity to the spirit, gives to pride sackcloth and ashes, crushes vanity, and scatters its broken bones in the valley of humiliation. Of all antiquity the philosophy ls sweetest which comes to us bathed In tears and softened by sorrow, and Its Il lustrative name will go down the ages to the end of time. On the Sabbath of peace we have seen brothers, children of a common Father.struggllng together In deadly fight with the madness of fallen spirits, seeking with murderous wea pons the lives of those who had never injured them or their kindred. The havoc rages, the ground is soaked with their commingling blood; horse and rider are stretched to gether on the earth. But more re volting than the mangled victims, than gashed limbs, than the lifeless trunks, than the spattering brains, are the lawless passions which sweep, tempest-like, through the fiendish tumult. J. Russell Wright. Walhalla. Regulates the bowels, promotes easy, natural movements; cures con stipation-Donn's Regulets. Ask your druggist for them. 25 cents a box. Atlanta Bars Kissing. Atlanta, Sept. 4.-Kissing ls un der the ban in Atlanta. It's un healthy and embarrassing to those not taking part in the exercises. A few months ago they convicted and fined a traveling man who kissed his wife on the street as he arrived home from a trip. The judge an nounced that (here was nothing per sonal in the case, that he would have been fined just the snme had he kiss ed some one else's wife. And now they have called out the police and electric light company to put a stop to reckless osculation in the public parks. The electric light company ls to erect lights every now and then In the parks so that the kissing squad may catch and arrest the awful vlolalors of the law. People who live near (he parks say that they are driven from their ve randas every pleasant night by the wholesale love-making under their very noses. So the word has gone forth. No kissing goes. Shot Ills Sou for Squirrel. Roanoke, Va., Sept. 4.-While out hunting squirrels near Roanoke yes terday morning James Spencer, of this city, mistook the gray hat of his son, C. J. Spencer, a Norfolk and Western railway.flreman, for n squir rel's tall and fired his shotgun through the bushes at the object. The load of shot took effect in tho son's face, neck and shoulders. He was brought (o (own and given med ical attention. The wounds are not fatal. the lustre of (be historic position of mir beloved church. Render to Cae sar what la his, give to God His own, draw H line between them, and re member that the kingdom of Jesus Is not of this world. lt is my purpose that no man shall discern from my pulpit work the complexion of my political af filiations. If you want my politi cal views then put me on tho pro gram to speak them to a public g.">.ti ering In the court house on PR .ne Friday evening. COTTON ?MONEY AT 6 PKK CENT. Will Help tito Producers; in Market in Their Crops. (Greenwood Journal.) Of importance of the highest or der to the cotton growers of South Carolina and neighboring States is the announcement of the Farmers' Loan and Trust Company, of Colum bia, that it is prepared to advance money on receipts for cotton stored with the Standard Warehouse Com pany, having warehouses In Green wood, Greenville, Orangeburg, New berry, Anderson uud Columbi i, at 6 per cent Interest. The significance of this statement to the cotton producers is measured by the fact that last season and heretofore the rate of interest ou loans secured by bonded warehouse receipts has been 8 per cent. Meanwhile the Standard Ware house Company, with which the Far mers' Loan and Trust Company Is In clo.se alliance, the principal business of the latter being to advance money on the cotton receipts Issued by the warehouse company, ls prepared to receive and store cotton at lower rates that' are to be obtained from any other warehouse system in this country. What the reduction in interest rates saves to the farmers may be thus Illustrated: When the owner of a bale of cotton keeps lt at home he must pay 8 per cent at the bank, the interest for six months on $50 advanced a bale being therefore $2. This bale of cotton ls not insured against damage on- loss by fire, wea ther or stealing, nod the difficulty of borrowing money on lt ls necessa rily the greater. Of course the amount of money advanced on a bale of cotton is a variable sum depending on the market price of the cotton, and $50 is taken solely for the purpose of the Illustration. At 6 per cent the interest on $50 for six months ls $1.50. The cost of storage I", one of tho Standard's warehouses Is 15 cents the month the bale, with 5 cents for handling and 5 cents for weighing and grad ing added tho first month, making the totr.l cost for six months $1. In terest at C per cent, and warehouse charges together make $2.50 for six months, in other words the farmer storing with the Standard Ware house, and borrowing from the Far mers' I.o;m and Trust Company at the same time, has his bale of cot ton Insured against fire, weather and stealing for 5 0 cents for six months. That is to say, he is enabled to bold his cotton at a not cost to him of 8 l-:i cents a month for each bale. The officers of the Standard Ware, house Company are: T. H. Stack house, president; J. K. Durst, sec ond vice president. The directors are: L. W. Parker, Greenville; C. E. Summer, Newberry; U. E. Wanna maker, Orangeburg; H. E3. Ligon, Anderson, and August Kohn, Co lumbia. Negro Attacked Employer; Killed. Newnan, Ga., Sept. 4.--In the eastern section of Coweta county last Wednesday night Snow Swvgert, a prominent planter of Haralsoti, wettt to fhe home oi a negro laborer to ascertain the renson for his failure to report for duty the day before, when the negro became angry and made an attack on his employer with a knife. Mr. Swygert fired on the negro and killed hint. There were witnesesa present and all agree that had the shot been fired only a few seconds later the negro would have killed Swygert. Price of Shoes Will Go Higher. lioston, Sept. 4.-The price of shoes Instead of being reduced as a result of the smaller duty on hides, will be Increased. The reason i.s that the price of hides, which determines that Oi shoes, ls not materially af fected by the tariff, and is at an ex cessively high point because tho de mand for hides greatly exceeds the supply. This Is the substance of a statement Issued by President C. H. Jones, of the Commonwealth Shoe and Leather Company. Dr. Abernethy,. the great English physician, said: "Watch your kid neys. When they are affected, life ls In danger." Foley's Kidney Rem edy makes healthy kidneys, correct i urinary irregularities, and tones up the whole system. J. W. Roll, Wal halla; Stonecyplter Drug Co., West minster. Negress, Aged 115, Dead. Greenwood, Sept. 4.-A thorough bred old Southern darkey,who claim ed bofore her death to bo 115 years old. died last week on tho place of Payne Henderson, down near Ph? nix. She had certainly passed the century mark, as is vouched for by many who knew ber. A few years ago her only son, 81 years old, died, and since then tho old mother has gradually grown weaker and weaker until her death last week ended the career of ono who had looked upon three centuries. Resolution.? of Respect-S. C. Smith. Clod, in His All-wise Providence, na v im. removed from us, by death, our beloved brother, S. C. Smith, we, the T(i\nwny Baptist church, do, In the following resolutions, ex* /ess our sense of loss and our respect to the memory of otu* departed brother. Resolved 1. That we humbly sub mit to our Heavenly Father's decis ion, though we f??l deeply our be reavement in the loss of our be loved brother,; yet, knowing that no lUe ends without the specinl inter position of a loving Providence, and that He has a right to do all things according to the counsels of His own will, and that He works all things together for good to them that love Htm. Resolved 2. That in bis de uh the church and community has lost one who rendered willing service, not only in his own home, but wherever lt was necessary. Resolved 3. That we hereby ex press our deep sympathy for the be reaved and Borrowing widow and his children, praying God's protec tion and guidance over them. Resolved 4. That a page in our minute book be inscribed to the memory of Brother Smith. Resolved 5. That a copy of these resolutions be sent to the family, and also to The Baptist Courier and county papers. Signed: H. R. Cobb, ii. E. Land. Honey and Tar Will cure a cough or cold no matter how severe and prevent pneumonia and consumption. A Guarantee. This is to certify that all druggists are authorized to re fund your money if Foley's Honey and Tar fails to cure your cough or cold. Contains no opiates. The genuine is in a yellow package, m USE WMTOUitt J. W. BEIili, WA MI ALLA. Stonecypher Pharmacy, Westmin >r. m?m?* New Post Caril?. Those who 'iave the postal card writing habit should rejoice. Begin ning with January 1, 1910, Uncle Sam is going to have better postai cards. They will not be so close kin to blotting paper, and the design on the address side ls to be more artis tic than at present. Mr. Hitchcock, postmaster general, is convinced that the United States post cards do not compare favorably with the post cards of other coun tries, and lins given his sanction to a plan for improvement in design, color and printing. One of the Innovations of the new card will be a card much smaller than th?jpresenj size, which can be conveniently used for index pur poses. Business men who send out post cards for collection of statistics and similar purposes have made lt known that lt would be very con venient if there could be u size of cards just large enough to be used for index purposes. The post office department has adopted the sugges tion. 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Prickly Ash, Poke Root > and Potassium. Th* best bk? \ purifier In th? world. V. V. MFl'MAN. Sarnnnnfi. - . Georgia. 04,400,000 Arre? Homestead Viands. Washington, Sept. 4.-Acting Sec retar: of tho Interior Pierce gave out a Btatemont this week in response to inquiries concerning the enlarged homestead act. The statement an nounces that tho act applies to por tions of Colorado, Montana, Utah, Oregon, New Mexico, Washington and Wyoming. Up to the present time there hua been designated by the secretary as prima facie, subject to entry under this net, 20,250,000 acres In Colora do. 2?,OOO,OOO in Montana, 1,550, 000 In New Moxlco, 1.200.000 In Or egon. 3.500,000 In Washington, and 11,900,000 In Wyoming. The lands aro non-mineral, non timbered lands, not susceptible of irrigation and will not, because of Insufficient rainfall, produce remu nerative crops, unless cultivated by some unusual method, such as tho "dry farming" system. Phone 105 and you will got what you want In Prising, Cleaning and Mending, and g >t lt Quick-"The world do move"-and so do we. We make a spocialty of cleauing and pressing ladles' skirts and gents' clothing. Send us your next work and we'll risk getting your future or ders. All work guaranteed. We have experienced workmen. Electric Pressing Club, H. P. 1IOLLEMAN, Proprietor, MAIN ST. WALHALLA. B. S. LOOK. Heating Stoves, Cooking Stoves, Tinware. All kinds of repairing, WALHALLA, S. C. j. A. MCCULLOUGH, M. C. LONG, Greenville, S. C. Walhalla, S. C. MCCULLOUGH & LONG, Attorneys at l.nw, Walhalla, South Carolina. Prompt attention given to all busi ness. 1 will be In my office over tho Oconee News all of the time after the first, of September. M. C. LONG. DIL 1). I*. THOMSON, DKNTIST, Seneca-Wu ll m I In. OFFICE Walhalla Mondays. Wednesdays. Fridays. "> DAYS: Seneca-? Tuesdays. Thursdays. Satu rdays. DR. W. F. AUSTIN, Dentist, Seneca, South Carolina. Office over J. W. Byrd ft Co. R. L. HERNDON, A ttorney-at-Law, Walhalla, South Carolin?. PHONE No. 61. P. Carey, J. W. Shelor, Pickens, S. C. Walhalla, S. C. W. C. Hughs, Walhalla. CAREY, SHELOR Sk HUGHS, Attorneys and Counsellors, Walhalla, S. C. I Practice In State and Federal Courts. R. T. JAYNE?. A ttorney-at-Law, Walhalla, South Carolina. I Practice In State and Federal Courts. Reil Phone No. SSO. BLUE RIDGE RAILWAY CO. HKTWKKN ll l .l. TON AND WALHALLA.. Time Table No. 7.-In Kffect June C, 1910. KASTBOUHD- I 12 j 10 j 8 j 1? I 20 I.vWalhalla. LvWest Union. 1.'. :'. J,v.illillinna Junction Lv*AdatnH. LvKJherry. Lvl'endleton. Lv'Auitin. LvSpndy Springs. Lv^Denver . i.v*Wi-Mt Anderson.... ArAnderson-PassDep I.vAnderson-PassDop Lv^Andorson--KrtDep ArHeiton. A M 8 46 8 50 9 08 0 10 0 26 0 28 0 40 0 48 9 51 9 66 10 to 10 15 10 18 10 46 P M 8 27 3 32 3 60 3 62 4 07 4 10 4 22 4 30 4 83 4 38 4 62 f 67 5 00 5 27 P.M. 1 36 1 60 6 2(1 6 29 5 47 6 601 6 02 6 IS 0 17 6 33 6 45 6 66 Al* fl M (i 33 7 00 PM Wwmioiwn 1 30 1 38 2JK> 19 LvHelton. Lv?AnderBon-Kr't De Ar Anderson--Pan? Do I.vAnderson-Pass De I.v?Weet Anderson.... Lv?Denver. I.vSandy Springs. i.v'Autun.... .".. LvPendleton. Lv^Cherry. Lr* Adams. I.VM<-I -lama Junction. I.vHeneoa. LvWest Union. Ai Walhalla. PM 6 45 6 ll A M 11 55 12 21 A M A M 7 20 7 47 7 50 PM 2 ID 2 43 2 45 6 11 a so e ri i: ;<H 6 41 6 49 8 69 7 02 7 20 7 22 7 40 1 45 12 24 12 30 12 48 12 48 12 61 12 59 1 09 I 12 1 80 1 82 I 60 1 65 0 20 9 30 9 60 10 00 10 05 10 20 10 85 10 40 11 05 12 05 12 ?J 12 40 . Flag stationl. Will also stop at the following stations to Uk? on and let off passengers: Fhlnney's, Janree s anO I Toxaway, Welch. A. B. ANDREWS, President, J. B. ANDERSON. Superintendent. WANTED-Second-hand bags and burlap; any kind; any quantity, any where. Rlclunond Rag Co., Rich mond, Va. 2 8-37 I DR.KING'S NEW DISCOVERY Will Surely Slop That Cough.