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BARNWELL SENTINEL, BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA -1 ihpkoved umrotN nrmiunoHU SUMSaWOL (By REV. P. II. KaTZWATER.r4X-.il., Tocher Of Engllnk Bible in thi Moody HilOe-Institute of frhlcago.) (Copyright, I91S, Western Newspaper Union.) I ■■■ , - . ■ — ■> ■■ ■ |— LESSON FOR NOVEMBER 24 If a Soldier Necet- * fariljr Immoral and Irreligioui? BvR^V.jj.H. RALSTON, D.0. Secretary o! Correspondence Deportment, ( Moody Bible Inatltute, Chicago Hi " ■ Showing That Sometimes the Late Bird “Gets His” W ASHINGTON.-—Yos, rho curly hlnl catches the worm.p But the late bird sometimes'catches ir, too; especially If .he stays up ,lgte enough. The matin hours have been *ung through history, hut no one has laid much stress upon the value of the analogous hours at the Other end of the Cay. ' I have always ibought that the crafty bird which would alt -out on the limb after Ids fellows had sought their downy uests would probably, ^■catch more worms than If he had heat the bugle. Girds and men—it Is nil the same. Messenger hoys were gathered In a room at one of the local telegraph offices the other night. It was late for this particular >hift of messengers, . . «-ven if messengers are supposed to know iio hours. Tb<* boys were counting their day’s earnings. One little fellow dlsp!nyed ; $15, and another told how; he was making $lf>0 al_ month easy as rolling off a log, he said. / How to spend it all was the problem. # ' . Some favored going over to “do hotel” and blowing several dollars (n for n rent feed, while others thought of the 1 theaters, only to recall that the theaters are closed <>n account of the SpanishTftflueuza. Amid these hoys stood a veteran messenger, a frail old man. seemingly, yet there must he a deep well of lif** in that old fellow, for he Is to be seen night and day, rain and shine, walking around, delivering messages. . “Anybody want to go up to the capital to get some calls?” cried the niun at the desk. He named a prominent congressman. - r ' “Naw,” spoke up one youth, pulling his cap over his eyes. “We got too much ter do from now on ter bother wid ’iin/V ’ , • - / , . ' ’ “i’il go,” said the old fellow. The hoys gave him the “ha ha” as he shuffled slowly out the door. He was gone about two hours. When he cutup hack he brought with him a, bundle of telegrams as big as a trunk. ~ - ~ ~ The congressman had n big” constituency. The man at the desk figured up the “commissions.” On the telegrams'which tie? hoys had refused that' old messenger made $. r >3. ' —' you COTTA • 1 K ftORh ! TO BEhUTY mb f w W like nm Just Two Foolish and Frivolous Young Women S HE Is the office pot. She said so. The other young woman accepted the boast with the indifference which you notice usually greets our self- pmlsements—people are so aggravating—and went on dabh'ng rouge from the box on tlie dresser before flic mir ror in a theater primping room after the matinee. “This town must'"fee run away with office pets. You are about the forty-eleventh I’ve come across and 1 r 2% haven’t been here a month yet. But ' you cun count me out. I got off be cause I had a duy coming to me— same as you, I guess.” . “No such a thing! Two of the other girls wanted to get off and he wouldn’t lettein. ■ But when I asked him he was as sweet as any peach that ever grew.” “Oh, I see; lie could spare you ‘better than the others, a Job first thing you know.” “Hateful thing, you! Say, if you expect me to go on the street with you you gotta rub off some of that paint. I wouldn’t bo caught dead looking like you do/' m.- You’ll be out of * \ JACOB AND ESAU RECONCILED. LESSON TEXT—Genesis 33:1-11. 4 ^ GOLDEN TEXT—A soft answer tumeth away wrath —Proverbs 15:1. „ DEYOTIO^AL READING—Psalma 4tL ADDITIONAL; MATERIA!.^-Genesis 32: 5-33:28. From Bethel, Jacob Went to Padan- pram to his mother’s people. Here he served La ban for twenty years—four teen years for his wives and six years for certain wages. In his dealings with Laban he finds his match—two schemers get together—“diamond cuts diamond/* i . I. Jacob Departs for Canaan (31: 11-21). The time nad come for Jacob to go hack to |)is kindred In the land of Cannnn. The Lord Instructed him so to do (v. 13). Though going forward m.der the direction of God, his Jacoh- nnture caused him to take clandestine leave of Laban. When Laban realized the situation he went In hot pursuit, hut God appeared unto- him ^n a dream and warned him against any a£t of vi olence toward Jacob. They formed a compact and Laban returned home. II. Jacob on the Way (chapter 32.) Laban’s return freed Jacob from the enemy who was pursuing him from behind, but he faced a more formida ble one In the person of Esau. r- 1. Jacob meeting the angels (v. 1). Two camps of angels met him to give him the assurance that God would he with him according to- his promise. Notwithstanding tills, he continued to scheme. He sent a. deputation with a message of good .cheer to Esau. . Jacob praying (vv. 9-12). Esau made no reply to Jacob’s mes- I rage, but went forward with an army of men. four hundred atrong, to meet ! Jacob. Jacob Is In great distress, therefore be casts himself upon God | ‘n prayer. This Is a fine specimen of effectual prayer. It Is short, direct. , and earnest. (1) He reminds God of Ills command . Issued for his return, and also of the covenant promise (31 :3). Surely God would not Issue a command and then leave him In such a strait. (2) Pleads God’s promise as to his personal safety (v. 9. of. Genesis 28:13-15, 31-JJ3). In our prny- j Ing we should definitely plead God’s promises In his word, on the ground ' >f covenant relationship In Christ. (3) Confesses unworthiness (v. 10). In this he shows the proper spirit of humility. (4) Presents definite peti tions (v. 11). He lays before the Lord the definite request to be delivered from the wrath of Esau. 3. The aneel of Jehovah wrestling vdth Jacob (32:24-32). In God’s school of discipline, Ja cob Is making some Improvement, hut Don’t worry, love; you’ll neyer look like me, dead or alive. You gotta still he fs under the sway of self- be horn to beauty like mine,” anti'the girl who was making up laughed out with the graceless Joyousness of a street kid. And the other took her at her face value. » . “The vanity of some people,” she said. “You certainly can speak for yourself, can't you kid?” All of which would be too foo]Jsh to waste print paper on except that It Is exactly tlie way two girls went ou the other ufternoon. < With Souvenirs and Memories of the Great Game I T WAS a strange audience that listened to Representative Kincheloe of Kentucky recently in the big, comfortable auditorium of the Red Cross and Y. M. C. A. building at the Walter Reed Military hospital,, on the outskirts of Washington. Not u man but wore bis bathrobe, and in the pocket of almost every negligee reposed a proud souve nir of the owner's prowess under the shell fire of the Huns, for the listen ers were veterans of the war. A youth from North Carolina mountains, still shivering from shell shock, fished up a piece of shrapnel from Ills kimono pocket. “They gouged this out of my hip,” he ex- plained. “Another piece got me In the head. I don’t reckon I’ll ever he fit / •; i —- to go back—wlsht 1 could, thouglT.” He and many of his slippered comrades wore Jauntily the tiny, soft “overseas” trench cap, that readily accommodates will and self-trust. Though he had laid the matter definitely before the Lord, he thought that his scheming would render God some assistance. Accordingly, he sent presents ahead to appensp the anger of Esau. While Journeying along, n man met him and wrestled with him, but Jacob knew not who he was. Perhaps he thought that Fnsu had pounced upon him In the •*ark. He exerted every ounce of strength in what he thought was the struggle for his very life. The morn ing whs approaching, and still the wrestlers continued, Jacob not know ing it was Jehovah manifest In hu- iran form. This Is the second crisis in Jacob’s life. He did not dare to enter the promised land under the con trol of his self-sufficiency; his selfish will must be broken; his Jacob-nature must be changed, fiod humbled him by dislocating his thigh. When thus humbled, he quit wrestling ynd clung to God. He got the blesslflg when he, conscious of his weakness, laid hold of God. 4. Jacob gets a new name (v. 28). He was no longer Jacob, the sup- planter; but Israel, a prince of God. His new name" was given him after —/TEXT--Cornelius, the centurion, a Just man, and on* that feareth God-Acts 10:25. / fWhat will be the character of the several million young men who will come i back to the United S t a t e 8 /from- the great world war? Will they be cruel, barbarous, Immor al and irreligious? Some seem to think that they w 1 H, reasoning that the business of the soldier in slaying his enemy will produce this result. They say that men In cer tain occupations, for Instance that of slaughtering animals in the stock yards, arermst permitted to serve on Juries, It Is reasum-d that the constant sight of blood blunts their sensibilities so that they would not be slow to doom a fel low man to death on slight evidence. It must be admitted that the terri ble business of warfare develops in some men the spirit of cruelty and brutality. Tt Is claimed, also, that the life of the spldler cannot but result In the lowering of his morals, and that It willj almost certainly utterly destroy anything like religious principles. Doubtless some will come back more Imrtioral than they went away, and some who went away moral will come hack Immoral, We believe, neverthe less, that there Is ho neeossriry peril In th» occupation of a soldier, when the Issues of the war in. which his country is engaged are righteous smd "Just. Indeed, we believe the contrary result will be far more likely. Take Bible soldiers, those that be longed to Israel, God’s people. There was Joshua, a redoubtable soldier, a great commander-in-chief of the mili tary establishment of Israel in the days, of Moses. He was a great fight er, but could say, “As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.” Gide on did not disdain to fight manfully against his enemy, and he was one whose sword was wielded as with the sword of the Lord. There was David, the greatest fighter of his day. fight ing from a mere boy to his old age, yet David was a man nfter God’s own heart, and wrote, “The Lord Is my Shepherd, T shall not want.’L. “Who h.ive I In hcoven but thee, and there is none on earth that I desire beside thee.** Coming to New Testament times we find several soldiers mentioned, all of the Roman or pagan army. Centuri ons are mentioned several times, and In every case with commendation. One centurion was a faithful friend of Paul on his Journey to Rome. Anoth er went to Jesus and besought him to come and save his child. He was a nobleman, and had built a synagogue for the Jews; and Jesus said his faith was greater than any he had found in Israel. Another centurion said of Christ on the cross, “Truly this was the Son of God.” Cornelius was a cen turion, “a Just man who feared God.” and a man of prayer^ It Is also re corded that the had a servant, a de- voted soldier, probably an ignorant barbarian, but one whom the Spirit of God had touched. And It la to be remembered that in those days battles were hand-to-hnnd and usually result ed In the death of the defeated party. All through the centuries many great soldiers have been great Christians; rnd unquestloiinbly a )hrge number of officers and men in the present war are also decided Christians. Never were'soldlers of any.army so guarded as to morals and religion. The Young Men’s and Young Women’3 Christian associations, the Salvation /HE TASTE BLISTERED MOUTH —f—- - Oklahoma Lady Had Dreadful Time Before Finding the r ' Right Remedy—Black- Draught. -. * Seward, Okla.—Mrs. Annie Bowiby; if this place, says in a letter written for publication: “I have used Black- I fraught for two years, or more, ahd Will never cease to be grateful for what it did for me and mine. ‘ "~ J r Soine time ago,-my mouth broke out with blisters. I had a vile taste in tuy mouth, all slick and disagreeable. I seemed ,td havefe great deal of Inward iVver,' I suffered withrfmy back'and kidueys. ... , -I was so nervous, it was dreadful. I would almost cry—I suffered so. I had gas on the stomach and pains but, us 1 said, the pain and . . . trouble was most 1 severe. I had-’ the doctor ’and used; several medicines without result. Still hurting and suffering, I began to use . 1’liedford’s Black-Draught, making It Into a tea, and using a teaspoonful dose at a time in hot water. I gradually got better, my liver began to act, the fever went down and I have never had any more trouble of this kind. .There is no otfipr medicine so good as Black-Draught.” You will say that, too, when you have given ’ Thedford’s Black-Draught a trial. , It is a good medicine. Buy a package today, / All druggists sell Llack-Draught. Feel Lame and Achy? "Ezxry lututy TtUti Uoldr and grip leave thousands w ith weak kidneys and aching backs. The kidneys -have tc do most of the work of lighting off any . germ disease. They written—dow up, and you fie! dull, ir ritable, or nervous—have h-sad™ i.rf, dizziness. Imckache, sore joints and ir regular ktdney action. Then the kid neys need prompt hejm Use Doan’s Kidney Pills. ThquJHMa praise Doan’s for quick, satisfactory results. A South Carolina Case >• It. G. Smith, 146 E. Lacey St., Chea ter, 8. C\, say sc “I believe I was as near death with kidney trouble as anyone cocTui he. I was troubled with dizziness and head aches. Mv kidneys didn’t act right ei ther. I lost weight an’d. couldn’t get a wink of steep at night. I finally be gun using Doan’s Kidney Pills as ev erything ,el;je failed td do me good t.nd only for Doan’s I wouldn’t be alive, today. Doan’s cured me and the cure has been permanent.” r . * Gat Doan's at Any Store, 60c a Bex DOAN'S FOSTER-MILBURN CO, BUFFALO. N. Y. / L MONEY BACK without question if Hunt’s Sates falls In the treatment of Eczema, Tetter, Ringworm, Itch, eta Don’t become discouraged because other treatments failed. Hunt's Salve has relieved hundreds of such cases. Yon c&iv't lose on our Monep linek O’uirantr*. Try It at our risk TODAY. Price 75c, at drug stores. A. B.-Richards Oo., Sherman, Texas alv Family Affair. A Gorman IKmtfmint num* lo>f<»r»* uu officer who was listing and tagging the prisojiers. “What’s your name'?” he was asked. “Johannes Ja’cohl.” “Any relation to Wilhelm Jacobi?” asked the officer. * “A brother,’’ said the I loch e in ur- prise. ■"Well, if you look around when you get to the pi >n pen you’ll find him there, too.” ANTISEPTIC POWDER FOR PERSONAL HYGIENE Dissolved In water for douches stop# pelvic catarrh, ulceration and inflam mation. Recommended by Lydia E. Pinkham Med. Co, for ten years. A healing wonder for nasal catarrh, sore throat and seve eyes. Economical. Hu extraordinary flouting and ffcrmicidal power. Sasaple Fr»«. 50c. all cruggntt, or potpaid by V. rail. TV- r-r>on Toilet Cwnn»—, Roatrei. N'««. Influenza Is Spreading CotfOIl S66d Notice to Retail Druggist. While tht^ dempnd for Yapoinentha Salve has been enormous/vve ,have a htege stock of raw materials on hand and can supply any reasonable demand promptly. hi order to get quick and more equal distribution while the epidemic of In fluenza, and LaGrippe is raging, we are pnekinft n lot qf 4 dozen cases which we can deliver to the retailer by Par cel Pofd. Send your*cheek or Money Order with your order, or have -your order (>. K.’d by your jobber, as we cnmuit open so many accounts at this time for these small amounts. If you wilh advise your customers to use a little Brame’s Vapomentha Salve up each nostril night and morn ing, vve believe it will prevent Influ- .enzn as well as’Golds and IgiGrippe, as it is a strong prophylactic iind germ icide and will opVn up the bead and air passages. BRAME MEDICINE COM PANY, North WUkesboro, N. C.—Adv. r \ Forti ne favors the brave is just another way of saying' that he who deserves to win usually does. FOUR BALES PER ACRE Tha wori of Vandiver';: Heavy Fruiter Cotton. I'nnyb' la mike pound. Fo*t»-ol* Derc <t lint: Di lnchaupn. No hell woevILe. ( rre from a.: dlaeaaa. Ke.iw dr.nths and winds. Baritaat big boll. Tfea cotton that bcata the boll weevil. All a«e<t ginned and caurd on car private ruarbl’ery We origi nated thla wonderful cotton. Write frr facta and proof* from yourown slat*. Special orise on send (or ear If delivery VANDIVER SEED CO.. Lavonia. Da. Get the Genuine and Avoid Waste When Baby is 1 o thing UBOVK'S 11A11Y UOVVKL M KoldN H wlU correct the Ktomuoh urd Bowel troab.e». 1'erTt.i.ily harm less. See directions on the bottle. Economy in Every Cake There is a place for ev^rjtiiimj; hut few people have access to the Judex. WANTED First class book and job compositor. also two thtrder. Good opportunity for ad vancement.. Permanent position Eight hours work. Write or wire, OBSERVER PRINTING HOUSE, Inc. CHARLOTTE, N. C. FROST PROOF Cabbage Plants Early Jersey and Charleston Wakefield, 8uo- ce v, on and Flat Dntch. By express, 600,11.25) .),IM), 13.01); fi.OUO at 11.75; lO,(00 and up ivUl-fi^ F. »>. B. here. By Pareel Post, prepaid, 100, 36c) 1,000,12.50. Wholesale and retail. D. F. JAMiSON, SUMMERVIUE, S. C W N. U., CHARLOTTE, NO. 46-1918/ a gas mask, that supersedes^ the campaign hat as soon ns our men leave our shores and is rapidly becoming the only military, headgear bf our troops he had a new nature. He came face Army, the church organizations, the except the steel helmet. The auditorium thronged with many hundred invalid young soldiers, a number ol whom brought in by their eomCudes day -arouncDthe walls on cots, bristled with a tragic forest of crutches. A game young chap with a bandaged fraction of a foot led the applause together with it handsome sportsman whose case is particularly pathetic, who 1ms no legs .at all. Tfre latter is carried tenderly from place to place by comrades less severely , stricken. Departments Have Long Needed More Floor Space ■. W ITH many buildings either requisitioned or erected to accommodate the nation’s war business, floor space to* take care of peace-time business is insufficient. This statement was authorized by Secretary of theJTrensury AIcAdoo. The Arlington building and the treasury annex, both of which will be ready for occupancy in the winter, provide 1,200,000 feet of floor space. , But even with this addition to the available space the treasury depart ment will And it a million feet short of the requirements for normal times. to face with God, and face to face with himself, and fought the battle to a finish../-We must have-the new. na- ty.re before vve can enter the place of blessing. Jacob mine to realize that lie had been struggling with God, for ho called the place “F’enlel,” which m«nn<C rr faee to face with God.” 111.^ Jacob Meet* Esau *33:1-11). God had evidently wrought with E«au, for when Jacob approached hltn the sting of bitterness was gone. It was not Jacob’s scheming that re moved Esau’s anger, hut the-action of the Supernatural, upon his heart. At Jabbok Jacob got right with God. so "Tnfore camp pastors and chaplains, with him* dreds of. ministers visiting the camps are giving splendid service in this dl- rection. ■ v • The government of the United States has made provision for the protection of the cnrnps at home and abroad from immoral Influences to an extent never before attempted, and never be fore were the prayers of Christian peo- r* so earnestly offered for the sol diers ns now. Many men are being prayed for who were never prayed for before, and many are hearing the gos- pej In the camps who never heard It fk^ertiontents 15 Fluid Draoj 9oo Drops vhen be. met Esau It was an easy matter to get right' with him. When we are right with God It Is an easy n.atter to get right with our brother. In This Life. ' / We hear much of love to .God, Christ ? ^eparffiient; spoke much of love to man. We make is done In ftfty-flvie buildings scattered over the city. Every building and all rooms are crowded to “suffocation.” an , \ official of the "department said. “Any person who tells you that at the close^ of'the war there will be a number of unoccupied department buildings In Washington disphiys gross ignorance of'conditions here,” said the official referred to. “Tbe‘truth is,,we need two more buildings that should be at least equal iir-size To the annex and /the Arlington to take care of the'peace demands proper shape. “Washington* as far us uecessarv jmbjtc buildings are concerned, was always about as much unprepared for peace as she has been shown to he unprepared for war. And now that influenza has spread, conditions hav< become unbearable.” * .4 ’ * - -V~- f ' ' ’ -A ‘L - : R,v ; - •, spoke a gfeat deal of ^icacs with heaven. Christ made much of peace on earth. Religion Is flof a strangi* or added thing, but the inspiration of the secu lar life, the breathing-of ar^ eternal spirit through, this temporal“world. With these considerations and oth ers that might he set forth, it is our belief that men will return more chiv^ a Irons, gentle, moral and religious than when they \vent away. They will come back to be lenders in onr churches and in all kinds of religious service like the soldiers who came lack after the Civil war, both in the North and in the South, to be th® leaders in Ihe churches. /•* — Man and HI* Faith. Faith is the substratum of life; so that .a man will be as he believes,_and will believe as he lives.—Wm. M. Tay lor. . -r 'Mi'. - "alcohol-3 PER ces i- AVe^ctablc Prcparatioa&rASj ^ilSin^thcFoodbyft^j ■! tin^thcStomachs and Boggs IN IAN TS .-"C'HILPHEN- Thereby Promoting DiiM** ChecrfulnessandReslUt^ neither Opium,MorpWne nJ Mineral. NotNarc° tic Pumpkin AUSnut* jbckdUSutto For Infantjiftiid Children^ iat Genuine Gaston Always. 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