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THE RICH M ^n Earnest and Eloqn by Dr. J. A. JVcir*and nr J. A. B. Shorer preached a I W,DR an(^ :e??QUENT sermon before a congregation at St. Andrew's liberan Church yesterday morning I?'The Hieb Man's Crime." His ",i was : .Inasmuch as ye did it not to one I?tiie least of these, ye did it not to j( -Matthews, 25:45. pr. Sherer said: \Jerj are absorbed with curiosity to [Ito? w?afc f?H?ws death. Holy Ljjpture does not often lift the veil If-ur. AU the more closely should ff study, then, the Gospel lesson for ?e jay, which gives us a glimpse of ,jc laws of the unknown world-of ?daws which determine destiny, first, there is the picture of a rich sJB( who lived like a king. His robe J ? n, of dazzling byssus, so precious, r 1 plioy >ays- ^bat it was exchanged for ?p weight in gold, and over this an Batter garment dyed with a liquid of jealous cost, drawn in scant dro? s (roo the purple-fish. His table was d with delicate food; day by day |( lived "in jovial splendor." His loase was an Oriental'palace. At his open door they flung a beg pr. What a contrast! The one tithed in purple and linen, the other avered with sores; the one feeding on paptuous fare, the other, like a dog, ng crumbs; the one tended by KTfitors, the other tormented by Bat the rich man and the beggar Se. Death, the great leveller, comes to ocb. Poet or peasant, beggar or Ling, they are all the same to him, to ?is grinning monarch, who is no re seter of persons. Lasaros, no ?jdbt, was cast into the potter's field, |iith no burial. But of the rich man de parable adds: "He was buried," ailing before our eyes pictures of tosh funeral splendor, as they wrap pel him in a splendid shroud, and laid lin on a costly bier, and marched tith their train of hired mourners to li; pompous tomb. Lazarus? The name means "God is li; help." His name on earth had seemed a pitiful irony, but ri?rw, when le most needs help, there is One to iiiist him. He is carried by the J into paradise, which the Jews filled "Abraham's bosom." The olid-like Luther comments, "I should iL'o like to have my soul carried to leaven by such nursemaids.'" There had been a contrast between item on earth, but now the contrast ?i) still greater. Their lot is reversed ; hBives" beoome? the beggar. From J i pm who had once besought Crumbs j from his hand he now begs a drop of nter. But his request ie unreason ible. The law and the prophets had p'ten him full warning that he must (boose between two; whether to seek hst temporal joy^or eternal joy, and le bad made deliberate choice. So tow the inexorable reminder: "Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things." He had ntde his choice, and now to seek a reversai of his lot is without reason. It is also an impossible request, for, besides all this, between us and you p?ere is a great gulf fixed, so that tay which would pass from hence to jjou cannot; neither caa they pass to K, that would come from thence." at solemn words these to fall from lie Hps of the Son of God, who was jot only Love, but Truth! Then the ow complains; he has not had.enf uient warning. God is not good ttough to men. Ho does not, suffi ?ently provide for their salvation. Uley ought to have supernatural toning of these terrors. "K -one >tnt unto them from th4 dead they wald repent." Sat never were truer 'ords than the words of Abraham's My: "If they hear not Moses anefl &e prophets, neither will they be Persuaded, though one rose from the .sad." Is it not trae? God is wili ng enough to do all fdr men's salva too, but God does not do the useless. Perhaps consciously our Lord gave ta name Lazarus to this beggar of 1*>C parable, so that men reading it, *>gbt think of that other Lazarus, *i? fiieud, who did come back from Mead, only to find men with self Winded eyes, who determined not to ?*?eve, but only to slay the Truth, *ent their way to the Pharisees and Md them what 'things Jesus' had tone." Yea, ?ne Lord himself came 'uk from tho dead, than which io all ^story there ie no better established pent; yet do Lhey now believe? No ; ^ have Moses and the -prophets and *e Gospel, which is called the ?power ?f God unto salvation," and if we be ber? not these neither would we Klieve though one rose from the. ?ead. / * I ask, what .made thc difference in j^e eternal destiny of these two men ? "as Lazarus saved because he was ftot? Nowhere is ,a promise made, ftcept to "the poor in spirit." Wai *e rieh man lost because he was rich? ?at Abraham, the friend of God and Mer of the faithful, was the richest AN'S CRIME. ent Sermon Preached . B. Sher er. Courier, of all the Jews, and Christ himself was often with the wealthy at their I feasts, Nicodemus and Joseph, of Arimatbea, being his faithful frionds in death. What, then, was this rich man's crime? Doubtless ho was an honest mao, of high standing in his community. He seems also to have loved his family. Yes, he was even ? "religious'' man', not forgetting to slaini Abraham as his father, and ioubtless occupying a front seat in the synagogue. Yet tbi? respectable nan, this religious man, was lost. What was his crime ? The rich man's crime was simply MB: That he saw Lazarus lying at lis gate and let him alone. That is di. He saw in that poor prostrate ona only a repulsive beggar, whereas ie should have seen in Lazarus, as lid the Samaritan in the merchant of ferusalem, a brother man. No, I will ;o further. He saw at his gate only i poor, disgusting beggar, where he ihould have se?n the Christ. There ore, he was surprised at his hard lot. 'When saw I thee an hungered and ;ave thee no meat?" "Inasmuch as ye lid it not to one of the least of these, re did it not to Me." Christ identi t?s himself with the meanest of His lervants. "Ye did it not to Me." JO the rich man's sin was the sin of ?mission. Light is shed on the Gos >el by the Epistle lesson which the vhurch has set to go with it. "If a nan say, I love God, and hate th his jrother, he is a liar, for he that lovoth tot his brother whom he hath seen, mw oan he love God, whom he hath lot seen?" The lack of this rich man vas the laok pf the rich young man vho came to Jesus, and, who, when ie heard the command to sell what he tad for the poor and come follow Him, 'went away sorrowful, for he had ?reat possessions." His "good things" vere the things of self. Is not this precisely the danger of he rich? Does it not explain that ??rd saying of Christ s, that a rich nan shall hardly enter into the King lom of Heaven? I mean the pover vhich^icheB have to build a crust and i shell about a man's heart, so that ie is wrapped up in self. Ile is hon ist, and highly respectable, and even )ious, but for the sake of wealth he oses that tenderness of sight which oakes a man see Christ in a beggar, hat tenderness of hearing which turns i moan of * disappointment into the errible Words,. "Ye did it not to Kel" Beware of the sin of selfishness! Do tot call it s little thing, a trivial fault, t lies at the root of crime. You h udder at the thought of murder, mt at the bottom of the first hideous nurder lay the. selfish heart of Cain, iou hear with horror of the deed of he traitor, Judas, bu; there is a hint if his orime in those words which rent before "Judas had thc bag." lis heart was encrusted with hard ielfishnes8, so that, in the woman rho anointed her Saviour, he saw buta oolish spendthrift. He was worldly vise, as was this rich man, who de ipised "one of the least of these." -"God sent a vision. I beheld the nighty scales wherewith God weigheth aaokind, and as I looked, lo. a bal ?n ce was taken. And God judged be ore me many souls, and among them ras the soul of a man whom I had ac tuated just and generous, and over rhose misfortunes I had grieved, ind God laid in the scale against this nan what seemed at first a little'fault, i trivial thing. It was the sin of self ove, and, lo, it bad tainted the man's vhole life; its mark was upon his ?very word and deed, till all seemed tallow lies. And God laid in the lalance against this small thing, this ?eavy thing, a just and honest course, m unsoiled name and many tempta tions overe?me. Yet some of these lad to be oast out again, for they vere found to be tainted by that little ault, that ghastly thing." It is told of Pousa. the Chinese jotter, that when the Emperor once ordered him to make such a piece of >orcelain as never had been seen, he .ried again and again, but failed, finally,"in despair, he flung himself uto his furnace. And by chance the iffeot of this self-immolation on the irare was such that it came. out the nost beautiful possession of the world, so, when self in us disappears, as we .bink only of pleasing the Master, we ihallbe "vessels unto honor, eancti ied, and meet for the Master's use. md prepared unto every, good work. -;- nm, a mt - I was seriously afflicted with a cough '?ar several years, and last fall had a nore severe eough than ever before. [ have used, many remedies without .cceiving much relief, and being re iommended to try a bottle of Cham plain's Cough Remedy, by a friend, vho, knowing mo to be a poor widow, javo i' tome, I tried it, and with the nost gratifying results. The first bot* ile relieved mo very much and the second bottle has absolutely cured me. [ ?have not had as good health for treaty"'' yeavs* Respectfully, Mrs. Mary A. Beard, Claremore, Ark. Sold >y Hill-Orr Drug Co. IT WAS ONLY A DREAM. A Confederate Vereran Looks Thirty Years Ahead. Carolina Spartan. After reading much about the reun ion of Veterans in Charleston and patiently bearing the burden of years and unremitting labor for a living, at the close of a long, lingering May day, I went to bed with the chickens and soon deep sleep came to my tired body. It was not long, perhaps about midnight, when the wheels of time were rolled back and I was in Virginia again with thc boys. R. IS. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, A. P. Hill and Longstreet were in the saddle. The boys in gray, or any color of cloth they could get, were camped on a hun dred hills, and thc dream picture would rapidly change and there would be the drums and marching and fun and frivolity, and then the booming of cannon and then thc interminable linc of blue with shining guns and bayonets would rise up in thc dis tance. In dreams that blue line is always a hateful thirg. The Confed erates may shout themselves hoarse for Dewey and Shafter and Wheeler. They may fight for the stars and stripes, but their dreams are always true to the convictions of 1SC1. Awaking from that dream I was rather glad I was not in camp in Virginia, but in a quiet home. I rejoiced in a restored country and felt that even the blue was not such a hateful color, only in dreams. Again sleep overcame mc and the cogs in tho wheel of time had some how slipped and the old machine was clicking off 1930. I was at a railway station and on a large poster Lread, "Grand Reunion of the U. C. V., at Petersburg, Va., July 4, 1930/' I began to* take in the situation. The general commanding the U. C. V. was a nineteen-year-old private at the sur render. All the generals, colonels captains and even quartermasters and chaplains of the army hud passed away. The boy who surrendered at the age of 20 at Appomattox was now 85. Even the 16-year old boys who went in the last few months of the war were 80. I made up my mind to go to Petersburg where the curtain went down on the last act, where great actors were forced to withdraw from the greatest drama of the cen tury. I wanted to see the remnant of the old army aa they came together for the laBt time. Only a few of them were left here and there. Year by year the roll had been growing shorter and shorter. Now the survivors of the whole army of the Confederacy could be called in less than half an hour. But my dream gave coloring to the scene and pictured the remnant of the gaandc?t army of the nine teenth century as highly honored, the observed of all observers, occupying the high seats in all the high places. But dreams are very disappointing. They go by contraries. Instead of honor there was absolute want of re cognition. When the first section of the train bringing visitors from North Carolina rolled in, I thought I would certainly see a few of the survivors of Chancellorsville and Appomattox leaning on the arms of their sons and daughters. But no one did I see. The sons and the daughters with maids of honor by the hundreds came in, but not a single Vete, ?n. The next section came in with the legend "Sponsors of the Confederacy." I thought sure these young people had the remnant of the North Carolina Veterans in their charge. But they came tripping out, each sponsor with six maids of honor, and each maid with two youog men dancing atten dance. This line was thicker, if not longer than Lee's line around Peters burg in the winter of 1864 and 1865. Bat there was no sign of a veteran in that merry crowd and no knowledge of one. A little conversation with one of the more affable indicated that they had got Light Horse Harry Lee and R. E. Lee mixed. Some of,them had an idea that Stonewall Jackson was the hero of New Orleans. They could . not tell whether it was Sommes or Sampson that was such a terror on the seas in the old Confede rate days. They did not know wheth er the Crater was in Petersburg or Santiago. Turning sadly from them I looked for the coming of the Palmetto division. When the first section rolled in sight with drums beating and banners flying my heart bounder! with joy when I felt that the sturdy sons and grandsons would bring ia triumph the few survivors of the Palmetto State. I was getting lonesome and longed for the friendly touch of even a conscript who had worn the gray. But sponsors by the hundred came pouring out of the train and then a thousand maids of honor with their attendant knights. From another di vision that rolled up I hoped still to see the veritable veteran brought for ward io triumphal procession. But instead of that I saw a long line of sons and grandsons, each with a roll in his hand and digoity enough in tread for a whola company of vete rans. I said, who are these and why do they come? The reply wat: "These are (he Governor, Lieutenant-Govern or. Speaker of th A Bosse, ch?insiu of committees, hoads of departments, representatives of all charitable and penal institutions, together with a half dozen select orators from each county, all of whom are prepared to make sppeeches.'' In great mercy the angel of sleep then opened my eyes and I was thank ful that it was only a dream. ' Pure Food. The adulteration of many articles of food and tho imposition upon tho pub lic of the spurious produc?as tho gen uine, provoked the investigation which is now beibg carried on by a committee of the United States senate. There is reason to expect practical and beneficial results from this inquiry, especially as it seems to be prosecuted without fear or favor. We have had many investigations under both State and Federal authority that were fiascos, but the senate com mittee which was appointed to ascer tain the extent of food adulteration in this country appears to mean business. Its sessions are held in public and ap parently every effort is made to get at the bottom facts. Recent reports of several State agri cultural departments and experiment stations indicate to what an alarming extent the adulteration of food pro ducts has proceeded. Some of tho i adulterants are harmless, but many of j them aio very injurious. Hut the palm - j iug oft' of adulterated food products, \ whatever may be their composition, is i a fraud which should be suppressed. The sale of any article of food which is not precisely whut it claims tobe should be absolutely prohibited. If it is a mixed article, . or is adulterated with elements which are harmless, the fact should be clearly demonstrated on every package and dealers should bo required to give ample notice of the character of what they ofter for snle. There are mixed flours which many persons had as soon use as the genuine, and which many prefer because they are cheaper, but it should be made il legal to sell any such articles as pure flour. There are many other instances in point. Oleomargarine is chemically as pure as butter and is quite as digestive. On the whole oleomargarine is a benefit to the country, hut the law forbids a deal er to sell oleomargarine ns butter. There is much more need for the protection of the pubile from other ar tificial and the many adulterated food products now so thick on the market than there was for the passage of the oleomargarine law. The senate com mittee will probably discover and ex pose a very large number of food adul terations, and congress may take action in reference to them. But the most proper and the most effective pure food legislation must come from the States. This is a matter which the (?eorgia legislature should consider and act upon at its next session.-Atlanta Journal. Nothing equal to Prickly Ash Bit ters for removing that sluggish bilious feeling, so eommon in hot weather. It creates strength, vigor, appetite and cheerful spirits. Sold by Evans Phar macy. - To stop the flow of blood : Bind the cut with cobwebs and brown sugar, pressed on like lint; or-if you cannot procure these, with the dust of tea. If your stomach is disordered, bow els irregular, and you don't sleep well, you need Prickly Ash Bitters. It is very effective in removing this condi tion. Sold by Evans Pharmacy. - God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers. Notice to Trust?es. AS required by Seotion ?M, Amended Acta of 1807, the County Hoard will appoint Trustees for the difieren t School Dlatriota of Anderson County on the firtt Tuesday in July. In order that the people of the respec tive Districts may better recommend the persons they desire appointed, the Coun ty Board requests the present Trustees to call a meeting of the taxpayers and qualified electors of each District, at some convenient place within the Dis trict, on Saturday, the 24th inst., to elect or select persons to be recommended to this Board for appointment. The Trustees will please report the ac tion of aald meetings to the Connty Su perintendent on or by Saturday, July 1st, 1804). In default of action by the resi dents of any District the Connty Board will make appointments without further notice. R. E. NICHOLSON, Co. Sup't. June 7,1N99 50 2 - Texas has a woman Samson in .Jennie Robinson, colored, of Burleson i-ouuty. She weighs 417 pounds, and has strength in proportion. Accord ing to the overseer of thc plantation on which she works she recently lifted a piece of machinery which five brawny negroes had vainly attempted to raise. Another story is told of her. She w\is riding a stubborn mustang, which refused to cross a bridge. Jen nie dismounted, tied the animal's legs, threw him on her shoulder, carried him across the bridge, and then con tinued her journey. VANDIVER BROS. & MAJOR, - DEALERS IN - Fine Buggies, Phaetons, Surreys, Harness, Lap Robes Whips, and All kinds 3uggy Fixtures. .1 ust received another ubi pm on t of Bar ber's Fine "New South" Buggies that we want to move nicely and quickly for cash or good papers. These are nice, nobby, alick, new style goods that will plosse you. Sold under an absolute guar antee. ThiB is the bright and beautiful season that inspired the poet to write, "In Spring a young man'n fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love." Now, if you want that pretty girl's "fancy" to turn in the same direction buy a "New South" Buagy from us. We want you to have one. Yours truly, VANDIVER BROS. it MA.IOH. YOUR HOME PLEASURES Nt) intluence lends so much to home life as music. No Stock offers greater attractions than ours, and we wish to help yon to happiness. It's not ?lone that we say it, but yon know that we mean it, as we sell the bent class of PIANOS and ORGANS, As well as small Musical Merchandise, and will give you f nil value for ev erv dollar. You are cordially invited to call in person and inspect our Stock, or write for catalogues and prices. We also represent the leading SEWING MACHINES Of the day, and are constantly receiving new additions to our Stock. We appeal to your judgment and will Bell yon the best in this Ilse. We still handle thoroughly reliable Carriages, Buggies and Harness, I And can save yon money by an inveatl I gat i on. ! Ijock to quality first-then price. Most respectfully, THE C. A. REED MUSIC HOUSE. ! KAMNOL. I I HEADACHE, | I NEURALGIA,! 1 LA GRIPPE. S Y Believes all pain. ? <& 25c. all Druggists. X Drs. Strickland & King DJENTXSTSi OFFICE IV MAS CH IC TEM S. AW* Gas and Cocaine used for Extract log Teeth._ STOVES, TINWARE, CROCKERY. ALABOE LINE, carefully selected to suit the public. We sell the Iron King Elmo and Oarlaud Stoves and Ranges, and the Times and Good Times, Ruth, Cottage and Miobigan Cook Stoves, ranging in price from 97.00 to $35.00. All are guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction, if not money will be refunded. Be sure -ou make us a call before buying a Cook Stove. We are bound to sell you and are t?ure to please you. We will take your old Stove in part payment for a new one. Our TINWARE is the beet on the market. Wo carry a wei]-selected Stock o* CHINA, such os Dinner Sets, Tea Seta and Chamber Seta We also carry a full line of PORCELAIN GOODS. Also, a nice line of GLASSWARE. We do all kinds of ROOFING-Tin Rooting, Slate Rooting-and Repair work. We will be pleased to have you give us a call before baying. OSBORNE & OSBORNE. N. B.-All Accounts due Osborns & Ciinkscalea cmmt be settled. Over Post Office. 'Phone No. 115. . MATT ISON ? AGENT. LIFE, T FIRE, I ACCIDENT! Call for nice Calendar. Office always open. PRICKLY ASH BITTERS ii CLEANSES THE LIVER AND BOWELS \ \ ? ARD FORTIFIES THE SYSTEM TO RESIST PREVAILIHG DISEASES. ? * ??.???????????I tMMM EVANS PHARMACY, Suecial Agents. The New DM Store ! We have recently opened up a complete line of DRUGS AND DRUGGISTS SUNDRIES, Patent Medicines of all kinds, Hair, Tooth, Nail and Shoe Brushes, Combs, Sponges and Rubber Goods. PRESCRIPTIONS ACCURATELY filled day and night. F. B. GRAYTON & CO., Freeman & Pack's Old Stand. A FIRST-CLASS COOK Can't do first-class work with second-class materials. But you eau hold the girl accountable ii' you buy your : : : : GROCERIES FROM US ! We have the right kinds of everything and at the right prices. Where qualities aro equal no dealer can sell for less than we do. We guarantee to give honest quantity at tho very LOWEST PRICES. Como and seo us. We have numerous articlesa in stock that will help you get up a square meal for a little money. Our Stock of Confections, Tobacco, Cigars, Etc., Are always complete. Yours to please, Free City Delivery. Qr. E\ BIGBY. For the Prevention and Cure o? the Prevalent Troubles . . . GRIPPE COLDS, And their accompaniments. 1ST euralbie Pains, Headache, Pain in the Limbs, OUR GRIP CAPSULES Are almost a Specific. This remedy should be in every household. EVAN3 PHARMACY. M. I? CARLISLE. L. H. CARLISLE A NEW ADDITION TO OUR STOCK WE have added tc our large and complete Stock of GROCERIES ANO CONFECTIONERIES* A lull and complete line pf Hardware and Farm Supplier. It will pay you to get our prices on Supplies before buying elsewhere, oA we are in a position to give you the lowest prices on these Goods. We would be glad to have you call on ue. CARLISLE BROS. P. S.-Free delivery to any part of the City. STOVES, STOVES I IF you have a Stove to buy* SAVE MONEY by . getting the latest improved, the largest oven for the least money. I will take your old Stove in part payment on a new one. Crockery, Tinware and Glassware, Lamp Goods, A full and complete Stock. 8&- Bring me your HIDES and RAGS. JOHN T. BURRISS. N. B.-Prompt attention to all Repair Work, Roof Painting, Plumbing, &c. S!T Q*S THE FENCE AND SLEEP! . . . W^HILK the procession passes if you want to. Nobody will disturb you. Buti rou are alive to your own interests arouse yourself, shake off ?Jumber, climb info ho bandwagon and wend your way with the crowd to THE JEWELRY PALACE OF WILL. R. HUBBARD ! They that want the bestand prettiest to be obtained in Diamonds, Jewelry, Silver ind Plated Ware, Watches and Clooka that will keep time and are. backed with a ruarantee, Fine China and Glassware and beautiful Novelties, know that to Will. R. hubbard's is the place to go. They that want honest treatment know that this la the jlace to find it. All Goods are juBt aa represented, and are fully covered by guar intee. The young mau who bas a girl and wants to keep ber coes there. Hubbard will ?elp you keep her. The young married couple goes there to beautify their li'.tlo lome. Hubbard beautifies it for you. The rich people go there because they can i iib rd it, and the poor go there, also, because they can afford it. am Everything NEW and UP-TO-DATE. am ENG RAVIN?; FREE. WILL. R. HUBBARD, Jewelry Palace, next to Farmers and Merchants Bank.