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God as Love and Light ? By REV. E. J. PAGE Director ot Missionary Course, Moody Bible Institute, Chicago. TEXT-Serve the Lord with fear and r?Jolco with trembling.-Ps. 2:11. ..Rejoice with trembling 1" What an odd coupling of conflctlng emotions I Fear and Joy In the snme breast, at the same time, and toward the same object I But is not the Christian life, yes, nil life for that matter, full of paradoxes, seem I n g contradic tions, nnd mu tually exclusive statements of op posites? Tlie Christian (Iuds life only when he consents to lose his life. Ile gels all when he lets go of all. Ile ls strong only when he is weak. Ile ascends to the loftiest heights of moral grandeur only via the valley of humiliation, Unding always that the way up leads down. His widest freedom ls achieved only In the depths of servitude to Christ. He is "sorrowful yet always rejoic ing; poor yoi making ninny rich; as having nothing and yet possessing all things" (Il Cor. 0:10). So In our text we ure confronted with a paradox of contradictory emo tions, both to he held in a balance of poise in our service of Jehovah ; wo ure to "rejoice with trembling." And do not these paradoxes root back Into the paradoxes of Cod? We read "God ls love," and we rejoice; we read also that "God Is light," and before that burning we tremble. "If thou, Lord, shouldest mark In iquity, O Lord, who shrill stand?" Here Is the light, and the trembling. "But there ls forgiveness with theo that thou mayest be feared." Behold here tile love, and our consequent re joicing (Psalm 130:8, 4). "|f Thou Shouldest Mark Iniquity." "This, then, ls the inessnge . . . that God is light and in Him ls no darkness nt all." He ls said to "dwell in tlie light which no man cnn ap proach unto," the pure white light of Ills awful holiness and truth, burning so bright that no unclean, Iniquitous thlnfi cnn abide lt. V/? ?n u little these? days about tho ..wrath of God," and yet tho Bible ls lurid with the red slg.nils of Ilia warn ings. It Is still on the pages of Holy Writ that "He bath appointed a day in which He will Judge the world in righteousness by that Man whom Ho bath ordained." John, Hie apostle, saw that Man and so bright was the light of His shining that he fell at His feet os one dead. But of that day and its floreo burning we hear little nowadays*. We have presumed In our Ignorance and hardness of heart upon an imaginary goodness in God. which winks at sin nnd passes lightly the Iniquity of men. We have lost our fathers' reverence for the Book, and have consequently forgotten the "fear of Jehovah." Wlio will dare to say that the wave of crime that ls now sweeping thc whole world ls not due to the loss of this trembling before a Holy God? Read that terse searching summary of apostolic logic In the third chapter of Romans, 10 to 18, which ls a cluster of burning cools from off the Old Testament altar. It begins with: "There ls none righteous ; no, not one," and ends by asserting the reason, "There Is no fear of God before their eyes." "God ls love," infinite fathomless love, but "God ls light," too-nwful, burning, searching light. Ile may bo merciful, my friend, but be MUST bo Just. "It is a fearful thing to fall Into the hands of the living God," (Heb. 10:31), "for our God ls a con suming fire" (Hob. 12:20). "But There Is Forgiveness With Thee." Oxygen gas is a terrible engine of destruction. A car of dynamite ex plodes and a city of a million homes is rocked to Its foundations. The ex plosion was oxygen gas hastening Into union with carbon; just concentrated combustion, and yet that gas which ls the principal agent of destruction ht the "consuming fire" ls the most harm less of gases. Submerge the most deli cate dye-tints in a bath of oxygen and not the least effect can be discovered, nnd Hie filmiest down of a thistle ls safe In the wafting of Its zephyrs. All animate creatures are dependent upon this gentle, harmless, yet terribly de structive gas. And so lt ls with God; He that can consume In tho fierceness of His anger is "merciful nnd gracious, slow to an ger, and plenteous in mercy," and "Ills goodness londeth thee to repentance." "Let the wicked forsake lils ways nnd the unrighteous mari lils thoughts; nnd let him return unto the Lord, nnd He will have mercy upon him, and unto our God for lie will abundantly pardon." (Isaiah f>5:7). This Ho cnn do because "lite Lord hath laid on ll?m (Jesus our Savior) the in iquity of us all." "On tho mount of Crucifixion Fountains opened deep nnd wide; Through the ?lood-R?iten of Ood'n mercy Flowed a vant nnd glorious tide. Lovo und grace like mighty rivers, Flowed incessant from above; And God's perfect truth and Justice Kissed a guilty world In love." -Old Welsh Hymn. Subscribe for Tho Courlor. (Bea?.) BEWILDERING TO THE MIND j Everyday Measurements of Selene? That Ar? Almost Beyond Com? prehension of th? Layman. One great difficulty In the study of astronomy ls to comprehend the Im mensity of the distances and sizes In volved. For Instance, we can form no conception of the site or distance of the sun. Suppose there was a spherical shell of the diameter of the sun. Suppose n great genie should drop Into this shell, every second, night and day, a ball the size of the earth. How long would lt take to fill the shell? Would lt take aa hour, a day, or a week? In fact, lt would take two weeks, and when full the shell would contain more than 1,000.0000 earths. The distance to the sun is 03.000,000 miles. How long woyjfj ?t take a can non hall to ron ch the sim, If shot from the enrth, and continued on its course st a uniform velocity? In order not to underestimate the distance some might sny a yenr. In fact lt would than l.OOO.tWO earths. Astronomically speaking, the above distance ls very short. The sun ls our nearest star. Strain the imagination by trying to 'comprehend the velocity of light which would pass seven time? around tho earth In one second of time. Now stagger tho brain by trying to think of stars, so remote from us i that a million years are required for their light to cross the enormous abyss thal separates them from us. Think of lt! When that ray of light, which : now Outers the eye, started on its ? course, perhaps there was no life on this carib.-John Candue Dean In tin? Indianapolis Nows. REFUSED HAND OF SULTAN Offer of Marriage by Ruler of Sulu Was Turned Down by Alice Roosevelt. The Moro ls not all bad. He has his good points. There has never been a case where a Moro hos murdered an American woman, and there are many j American women In Moroland. This abstinence, however, ls not due to Moro chivalry, but to the fact that In the Moro thought women have no souls. Not that the believed soullessness j of the sex keeps the Moro from be* . lng n ladies' man. In fnct, he is In? ! dined to be very gallant. The fa 1 mous visit of the Taft party, ac companied by the then Miss Alice Roosevelt, some years ago (and long to be remembered In the Phil? ; ipplnes), was attended by a ohnr ac tori Stic exhibition of Moro gul- j lanny. When this party visited ' JolO-no trip tn the Islands would bo completo without visiting this picturesque island-his royal high? 1 ness, the sultan of Sulu, immedi ately offered his hand in marriage 1 to tho daughter of the President He addressed her ns the American princess, and tho nome of Princess Alice still clings to her In the Phil ippines. Tho fact that his highness already had a couple of dozen wives scattered around the town was no I deterrent In case of a Mohammedan monarch. Encouraging the Hen. The modern method of Increasing the quantity of eggs that may be ob tained from hens is turning on electric lights in their pens in the middle of . the night, thereby awakening them, to tho end teat they eat an extra meal and thus approach closer than ever be fore the ideal of laying on egg a day, week after week. One cannot but ? think that this lengthening of the working day for hens ls a device of the same genius who discovered that ; there was no need of arising at dawn ; to feed the poultry. Ile simply waited * until after the henyard denizens had ; gone to roost, and then scattered their ? morning meal. The hens found their I brenkfnat walting for them In the . morning, while the Ingenious one arose ; and went about the affairs of ibo day i only when lie felt so inclined. No chanticleer called him to work. "Automobile" Street Car. Mechanical arrangement similar in many respects to that of an automo bile Is the distinguishing feature of a new form of gasollne-drlvcn Interur ban car described In Popular Me chanics Magazine. Though the body, scating ?15 passengers, ls like that of a standard modern street car, there is a long hood extending In front, in which the 50-horsepower engine ls mounted. An auto-type gear shift ls provided, and a shaft transmits the power to thc rear wheels. Air brakes, electric lights, and n hot water beating plant ore other details of tho equipment Tho car makes n round trip of 40 miles In a little more than two nnd one-half hours, consuming about five and one-half gallons of gasoline, or ono gallon to seven miles. Too Lat?. "Ali!" exclaimed the fallen baseball star ns he wiped away a tear. "If I had only thought about that song tho young people were singing when I was a bush league player I" I "What was lt?" asked a sympathetic friend. j " 'Take Rack Tour Cold V "-liirm ; Ingham Age-Herald. Bad Housing and Tuberculosis. Because of hick of housing In New York Doctor Copeland, city health Commissioner, fears mi Increase In the tuberculosis mortality rate. He says insanitary conditions create an ex cellent f:dd for the spread of disease and aro sure to result In ti moral and mental degeneracy. NEW MONTE CARLO IN CUBA? Possibility That World-Famous <V>?> blina Establishment May Ba I Located on the leland. j .The greatest gambling center tn the world will be located In the west ern hemisphere if plans for 'palaces' in Cuba develop os given out," said Walter I?. Harris of Havanna. "Cuba ; is already beset with the gambling fever, and fortunes change hands there almost every day. ( "Since the announcement of the prince of Monaco that ho ls prepar- j lng to close Monte Cnrlo, there have been extensive preparations for the establishment of great gambling pal aces designed to attract tim spurting element that now visits Monte Carlo 1 to the 'Peurl of the Antilles.* Several villages have been surveyed with the j view of locating this gnmbllng cen ter, but so fur no definite decision has been reached. 1 "Gambling is already flourishing In Havana. The Casino de In Playa ls a great garish temple of roulette, where j wonderful dinners are served at less j than cost. The profit to the house I comes from the wheel. The men who | take women to tho Casino for dinner I Invariably back them at the wheel. "The moratorium now In effect on the Island has not nffocted the crowds l at the Casino, because they are most ly composed of tourists, and the vis itor ls treated to tho sight of a conn try, apparently bankrupt but gnmbllng | madly, where fortunes change hands j overnight and the beggar Of today may bo tho rich man of tomorrow.** Washington Post. HUMAN FACE AS A BEACON Radiometer Able to Record tho "Shine" Thrown Off, at a Distance of Several Miles. Novelists that speak of a face "lighting up" pul down un actual truth that few of them aro aware of or In tend. One of the most delicate In struments In the world, a radiometer, records the "shine" of n human face, and cnn do lt at a distance of several miles. So delicate ls the Instrument that lt can detect and record the glim mer of a candle bnlf a mlle away, and If there were no atmospheric obstruc tion lt could detect the same candle 10 miles away. The Instrument consists .f two thin glass disks, one polished and one blackened, suspended by a quartz thread In a vacuum. Waves of radiant energy striking this Instru [ ment disturb Its balance, because the bright disk reflects them, while the black one absorbs them. I While the human face to the nor I mal eye gives out no waves et radiant energy, tho fact remains that a con stant flow ot energy ts being thrown off, and these waves travel an un known distance. Although the radio meter ls a wonderful and delicate In strument, there ls a thermal couplo ten times as sensitive ns the radiome ter and lt can detect tho bent of a i candle GO milos distant. Italy- to the Rescue. Visiting a school ls a doubtful pleas i tire. Rut the woman had promised to call for a friend who ls known ns a ."rooky" teacher. She waited until al most closing time before entering the school, a red brick, lumpy sort of building, not specially attractive. It j looked ns If she lind como too soon. All eyes soon focussed on her Instead of on the busy little teacher. The word "trio" was being explained to the children and volunteers were asked to stund and use the word in a sentence. And no ene need expect to go home until the word was fully ex plained. Little R. T. coaxed, "Come now, tell mo Just one little story with 'trio* In lt." Timidly, swarthy little Giuseppe raised his band. Ills naturally happy face was strained In his effort to help. Then flashed a bright smile at tho woman and shouted cheerfully: "It ls nearly trio clock."-New York Sun. Go to Class by Underground Tunnels. An underground tunnel system that bas all the fascination of the cata combs, although It servos the less dra matic function of convoying heating pipes, is one of tho chief attractions nt Wellesley college. It has Just been completed and un dergrnduntes aro being permitted to ramble around under tho 300-nere campus. The tunnels are six feet high and wide enough for comfortable walking. Girls have found that no matter how cold the weather, lt ls o good plan to abandon coals when taking this long adventure. Thc temperature from tho beating pipes ls about that of n Turk ish hath. This Oil May Cure Leprosy. The use of Cbnulmoogra oil has been known for some time to have some vir tue in the treatment of leprosy, and recently lt lins been discovered that there nie n great many points of simi larity between tho germs of leprosy and those of tuberculosis. This bas led to some government experiments in the direction of combating tuber culosis which will be conducted nt Ha waii. Iron Ore From the Alp?. A new iron ore Held hus been discov ered In Switzerland which ls estimated to contain <17.000.000 tons, which will assure to Switzerland, nt prewar con sumption rate, sufllclent iron oro to last for 45 years. The federnl council suggests n provision by the government of 1,200,000 francs upon condition that a total capital of 4,000,000 francs ls raised fer exploitation. Subscribo for ^Tho Courier. (Best) THE FORD RUNABOUT needs ply the (lomond with something able tu get enough' from the fn< enough. There aro more than 1 and of this number about tim in America, but we have ono lui looks, from the way the doman we can satisfy that demand. IT IS OX IO GREAT LITTLE U'l worker in the factory, from tlu contractor timi Iiis employ?e? \ those days us the handkerchief Piedn WALHALLA, ROTT li IC OF ROOZE EXPLODES, And Magistrate's Court ls Quickly Clcurcd as Result. Now York, April 8.-New York's night court, busy as a result of the police department's first drive at enforcement of the State pro' (bilton law, adjourned temporarily in dis order early to-day when a quart bot tle of confiscated liquor exploded in tho pocket, of a detective. The detective stood before the magistrate supporting a man who, with bowed head, was confessing that! he had partaken too freely of the' brew that intoxicates. * ^Whore's tho evidence?" asked the court. Tll? d< '. etive's hand moved toward his pocket; Willowed a loud report, some ono Shoo ted "botrtb," and a rush for the exits began. The detec tive was hurled to tho floor, as was his prisoner. The magistrate and others In the court gathered outside and returned only when apprised of the canso of the explosion. The next defendant on the docket, a father of ten, still trembling as a result of the explosion scare, took a pledge to a bs titi n ."for ever and over." A WALHALLA WOMAN'S EXPER IENCE . Can you doubt the evidence of this Walhalla woman? You can verify Walhalla endorse mont. ?Rend this: Mrs. A. L. Tilley, 6 James St., Wal halla, says: "I had backache and kidney trouble some time ago and 1 think lt was caused by overwork. My back got terribly soro and ached all tho time. Sweeping or bonding over was almost Impossible. I got dlzay and black specks came beforo my eyes. Mornings I was so lame and soro I could hardly got around. I had headaches and nervous spoils, too. My kidneys didn't act as they should and I was in' pretty bad condition. I used Donn's Kidney Pills and they made me feel bettor right away. In a short timo I was entirely cured." Prlco GOc, nt all dealers. Don't simply ask for a kidney remedy-got Donn's Kidney Pills-the snmo that Mrs. Tilley bad. Foster-Mi I burn Co., Mfrs., Du ff alo. N. Y. Mox Supper nt Coonee Creek. There will be a box supper at Coo nee Crook school house on Friday night. April 15th, beginning nt 8 o'clock. Music will bo furnished to entertain tho audience. All neigh boring schools aro invited to bring boxes. Everybody welcome. Ibis invitation ls extended by W. W. Wost, J. C. Ivester and Miss Alma Alexander, toachors. Card of Thanks. Hklitor Keoweo Courier: Wo wish through tho columns of your valuable paper to thank our friends and noighbors for their time ly assistance and so ninny deeds of kindness rendered us during tho ill ness and at tho death of our dear father, James Rrock; and wo thank each and every ono of thom for the beautiful floral offerings. May God richly rownrd thom and abundantly bless is our prayer. His Children. Seneca, April 7th, 1921.-adv. THE UNIVERSAL CAR ORD RUN/ ? no advertising. About all wo bave to ; like prompt ness, and tbo Kelling ls et ?ry to meet tbo demand, and do not roitr million five hundred thousand Fo :o hundred thousand aro in foreign indrod and live to ono hundred and te ul comes in, that, wo will have to sell l l MTV. lt, fits Into every man's want ; country blacksmith to the millionnii Io the millionaire sporting man's onto riont Motor S. C. WEST* PHONE 34 IAS. HIMICU CALIJHD TO KHWAltl) Was Veteran ol'Civil War and Highly Ke.spci-?iril Citizen. Seneca, lt F. D" April 7.-Special: At 2.30 o'clock Friday morning, the 1st of April, tho immortal Hpirit oil .James I3rock left its tabernacle of I clay and entered into rest eternal. He had lived to the ripe old age of 88 years, and he was a useful man in his community, a man of integri ty, honesty and uprightness. In early manhood he, with his good wife, joined the Beaverdam Baptist church und in later years they moved their membership to Townvillo and thence to Cross Roads, whore he remained :t consistent member until hin dOath, vliic.h was duo lo an attack of pneu monia. All that loved ones could do was done to suv thc reaper. Death, but his body hoing ?0 frail the attack was more than ho could withstand. He was doubtless glad to hear the summons, "Enough como up higher; your mansion ls ready for you." '.Mr. Brock was married to Miss Marrett, of Fair Blay, who precoded bini to the grave eleven years and I've months. To this union eight children were born, namely: A. J., J. M.. T. W., B. C., of Westminster and Seneca, and L. O., of Lavonia, e.a.. and Mrs. 'Belle Carroll, of West minster; Mrs. Josie Owen, of Sen eca, and Miss Sallie Brock, who made her home with her father, minister ing to bis wants and comfort. He also had 44 grand-children, eight great-grand-children, and one bro ther. Fnos, who lives with his son, Lawrence, in Chatanooga, Tenn., this brother being three and a half years older than was the deceased, and one half-brother, Isaac, who is living at Fair Blay. Another ono of the veterans has dropped from tho ranks. Ho served four years, through tho entire war, doing his bit valiantly and well. Ills casket was borne to the last resting lpace by six of his grandsons, Adger, Fvans, Boone, Johnnie, Gary and Clarenco Brock, and following the casket was the floral offering, at testing Ibo esteem in which he was held, this being carried by six of his gr*and-(laughters. After funeral services, conducted by his pastor, Bev. Davidson, of Greenville, his re mains wero laid to rest by the side of his wife. Ho has crossed over tho river and is resting under the shade of the trees. Boaco to lils neb etf. A large concourse of relatives and friends wore present lo pay the last sad tribute to this dearly beloved m an. Aged Vork Citizen Makes "Begs." York. S. C., April 7.-Dr. W. R. Irwin, SI yeera of age. the oldest white citizen of this county, makes wooden legs. Tho doctor lost his own right le, .>y a shell during tho War Between the States. Ho built a wooden leg according to his own notion, and he has been making them for other people ever since. A Woman Wrote Tho Canny News* Minn., December 10, as Follows; "li nny swbscribersask what you think of Rat-Snap, tell them itt thc best rat exterminator I know. Rats were taking our eggs, oats, corn; had full swing In our ecllar. I used Rat-Snap for two days and rats hava elearcdout completely." Thrceslzcs:35c,65c.$1.25. Sold and guaranteed bv Barton'* Drug Store, Whitinlro-Mnrctt Hardware Co. do is to toll you wo can sup over. Wo have novcr been supposo wo over will got rd Cars in operation to-day, countries, tho rest right here n millions of people, and it that many Runabouts before .s, from (he physician to tito o railroad owner, from tito tirage, almost ns necessary MAX SAYS WOMAN HIRED ll IM And Friend for $5,000 to Shoot Jos. i>. Elwell, Whist Expert. New York, April 7.-Tho alleged confession at Buffalo last night of IRoy Harris that he and a friond were hired by a woman to kill Jos. B. Elwell, tho whist expert and turf man, here last June, heightened in terest to-day In the now investiga tion of the baffling murder, started last week by former District Attorney General Chas. S. Whitman. ?Harris, arrested on a forgery charge, is roported to have signed a confession at he and William Dun kin wore b jd by a "Mrs. Fairchild""' to go to fi,? .feat ei homo and kill him, . a deed for which they wore to re ceive $5,000. lClwell had many affairs with wo men, and a number of these wore brought into (he caso in tho investi gation that followed tho mur'dor. Nono of them, however, was named "Fairchild." This name, tho police . say, might, havo been assumed for I the occasion. They hope Harris may bo able to describe tho woman ho knew as "Mrs. Fairchild," and in that evont. they may be able to es tablish her identity. The alleged confession of Harris, assorting that a woman hired two mon to kill Elwell, is practically tho only thoory of the crime which had never been advanced. Elwell was ?found with a 1 u'.let through his head, In a room off tho reception hall of his residence. He was still alive when bis housekeeper found him at 8.30 o'clock on tho morning of Juno ll. He waa bare footed and clad In night clothing.. He died several hours later without uttering a word that would load to . tho Identity of his assailant. Ono . opened letter and several others, unopened, lay on his lap when tho housekeeper found him. No revolver was found in the room. SIX KI DI. FD IX TRA IX WRECK. Southern Railway's Royal Palm Lim ited Der?.Med in Tennessee. (larriman, Tenn., April 7. - Tho .Southern fast train No. 2 was de railed forty miles north of here this afternoon at 2.4? o'clock near New River, Tenn. The engine and tank partly turned over and three coaches and three sleepers were turned over, according to advices received here, and two persons were killed and 25 to 35 injured. Tho two killed wero passengers, it was said. Tho derail ment wns attributed to a buckled track. The injured were taken to Somer set, Ky., fifty miles north of tho scene of the wreck. Tho dead aro: F. E. Cook, Orion. Mich.; E. J. Bu shey, Detroit, Mich.; F. Rammlch, Detroit; Harry Sickles, St. Mary's, Ohio; .loo Kramer, Chicago; Wil liam Parks, aged 87, of tho Soldiers' Home, Grand Rapids, Mich. Threo coaches wore overturned and threo Blooping cars derailed. Tho wrock, which was duo, nccordlng to railroad mon, to buckling or spread ing of the rails, occurred just north of Now Rivor, Tonn. Tho Royal Palm Limited runs from Jacksonville, Fla., to Chicago. Tn Italy last year moro than 4 000 cases of sleoplng sickness, resulting In 1017 deaths, wero reported.