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LASTS 3?reacbed by Dr. W. bern Clarar ch., Sep1 Associate Beform TEXT: "Say unto her, Thou art the laud that is not cleansed."-Ezek. 22:24. .. It is within the memory of this gen eration when this, whole land of ours. North, South, East and West, was swept by the desolation of war. There are on every hand, in ruined homes, and stricken households and father less children the memorials of our ter rible civil war. Verily, we have pass ed through the furnace of affliction the gold has been tried. And yet in the evils which afflict us, and the evils which threaten us, we may say cf our whole country, as the prophet said of Palestine after its fearful soeurge of war and captivity, "Thou art aland that is not cleansed." The design of affliction is twofold, for correction and for punishment. Job's, for example, was not so much for pun ; ishment as for a witness to the truth and a testimony to the power of re ligion in the heart. But whatever he the immediate design, it ought to lead us in the end to a giving up of sin, a searching of our ways and a turning to God in a hearty resolve to abandon everything which might have incurred his displeasure, and unless it accom plish this, at least in part, we will haye been scourged in vain. It will be "a land not cleansed." Is not this our condition? Doubtless, brethren, there are sanctified results with many; doubtless the chastening which we have received has wrought sanctified results with hm ny, doubtless the af fliction has worked patience, and pa tience experience and experience hope in many cases, and tliat grief which lies buried so tenderly in the sanctu ary'Of the soul has weaned many from an unsatisfying portion of this earth to a glorious and blessed immortality. But if we look at the general results, and at the prevailing characteristics may we not say with the prophet, "thou art a land not cleansed." (1) Brethren, we have not cleansed ourselves from a profanation of God's holy Sabbath. Instead of less Sab bath desecration than there was 40 years ago, .is there not more of it? On this subject God has given us, not only his example, but also an express law. That larc was inwoven with the warp and woop of the Jewish economy and it was reaffirmed in the ministry of Jesus Christ. His teachings did not abolish this institution; so far from that he incorporated it with the Gospel dispensation; and by his ex ample He declares it to be of perpet ual, obligation. The Sabbath was made for man, for his good and his everlasting well-being. But to enjoy its blessings, and to reap its benefits we must observe it. It must be sanc tified. Apart from any religious con sideration it would seem that men would be constrained to keep it as a ..day of rest. Filled up as the week is -with its busy hours and its burden of -cares, and its constant employment i'iow necessary some interval of rcp^s*. As a measure of the system of humau labor, how wise and beneficent. In > this view of it even the ungodly have .recognized its wisdom. And yei it is with thousands a day of act aal labor. ' Their physical energies are taxed as muchas on any other. The great rail road trains employ their hands and la borers on that day just as on any oth -er. The Sabbath receives not even the homage of rest. In letter and spirjt the Sabbath - is thoroughly dis regarded. This disregard is not con fined to those who are careless of re ligion, .who are indifferent to it, but the most mournful features of it is in the case of those whoo admit the sanc tity of the Sabbath, who acknowledge its divine authority. They know and approve the right, but they follow tho wrong. So many who profess to hon or the Sabbath, .seem to think that if they go to church they have fulfilled their obligation to observe the Sab bath-that they are, after this, free to spend the day as they like. They for get that the proper observance of the day consists in holy resting, with its accompanying duties of prayer, medi tation and reading the Scriptures. Is it not true, brethren, that this evil in stead of diminishing is a growing one in this country? Has there not been a decline in this matter from the prac tices of our fathers? It may be said that the yearly number of immigrants who flood this country and who come jj to us with their national customs and j with their loose notions on this sub- j ject, may serve to explain this change for the worse. Well, that may account for it in part in our cities, and in many of our populous districts, but there is scarce ly a. ripple of this mighty wave that reaches our remote regions. We are thankful that it is so. Agenuine for eigner is a curiosity with us. We must find the looseness of which we speak in something else. We cannot lay the blame on others. The sin lies at our own door. We have fallen below a standard bequeathed to us centuries ERMON M. Grier, at Bethle ;ember 3rd, 1899. ?ed Presbyterian. ago. The useless visiting, the worthless reading, the neglect of the sacred Scriptures, the worldly business that intrude themselves on that sacred day plainly declare the low estimate which we place upon it. And shall not God visit the land for these things. If God punished his ancient people be cause they trangressed his Sabbath by bringing in burdens on the Sabbath, can we expect less severity for our sin ' this respect? Sabbath breaking was regarded one of our great national sim before the war, is it less so now? Let Ins teach our children to hallow it-lei us set them the example-then shall our peace be as a river and our right eousness as the wuves of the sea! II. Again as a people we hf ve n cleansed ourselves from the sin drunkenness. It were useless to enter into an elaborate condemuation of that which every man's conscience tell him is a violation of decency and se respect as well as of God's law. There is no better temperance lecture in the world than the sight of a man possess ed of all the features of o manhood, yet robbed of all these in beastly intoxi cation. Every trace of a divine an heavenly origin is lost in the degrada tion. There can be no exaggeratio of the evil of drunkenness. The amount of intoxicants of-one sort o another drank in this., ''country is ap palling. It would pay all our school taxes, all our gifts to .the Church, to pastors1 salaries, to home and foreig missions. It would support all our jails and penitentiaries and then have a large balance. There are thousands who are thus doubling the calamities of our civil war, and adding to the misfortune which broke their spirits and paralyzed their energies. It painful to see men of age and influ ence yielding to this ruinous habit but it is still more distressing when we see taat it is robbing us of the very hope of the land, so many of its young men. There is some sort of a poor plea, net an ex cuse, mind you, for a man who is left without bodily or mental vigor in his declining years to struggle with pov erty, with the burden of a household but one who has health and strength who has all the promise of years to come, who has no lost fortunes to mourn over, no bitter memories to vex him, such a one is left without even miserable plea when he seeks his com fort in a saloon. He is wasting a life which might be useful-he is squan dering earnings which might bless others, and worse than all this he is bringing sorrow ami disgrace to home of which he is the joy and pride. All over our land we see abun dant evidences of the waste and ruin of drink among our youth. But now while we say this we thankfully ac knowledge that a Christian sentiment is asserting itself in our country, par tlcularly in our moral districts. We rejoice to believe that right here in our own immediate section and neigh borhood there is less drunkenness now than there was fifty years ago. By constant discussion and agitation a quiet temperance reform has been at work and drinking practices and cus toms that were largely patronized by respectable church people have been seen to be harmful and have been abandoned. And there is an obliga tion laid upon every lover of the church, and every lover of his country to exert himself by precept and ex ample in checking and abolishing an evil more disastrous than war. If ever there was a time when we stood in need of the virtues of sobriety with its plain, honest, homely clad sun browned industry it is now. And this suggests: III. That we have not cleansed our selves from the sin of an ungodly worldliness. This is the eating can ker of our time. Men make haste to be rich. There is a deep-seated aver sion to the slow accumulations of or dinary industry. An observant preacher says, There is a .swarm of men bred in the heat of adventurous times, who seem to speak of dollars and cents-hundreds and thousands are their words. "Everythingis done at a driving rate. They wish to reap before they have ploughed and sown. Fortunes are to be made in a day." My hearers this does not arise from any local cause, it is the result of a disease in the whole community. Here is a man who has a boil on his hand, it is not from any thing wrong with the hand specially; no, his blood is wrong, and his whole system is foul with corruption from the crown of his head to the sole of his foot. And in the lengths to which men go in this matter of unscrupulous money-making they verify the declaration of the in spired Apostle, "They thai will be rich fall into temptation and a snare which drown men in destruction aud perdition." Oh, let us rebuke this spirit of worldliness which is invad ing our very homes and which is seat ing itself in every department of hu man industry. Let us remember that our success in this life is not to be measured by "loss and gain," by what we acquire or what we miss of earthly goods. Eternity has its rewards which are infinitely above the treasures of earth. We have thus hinted at some of the more prominent evils which hinder the prosperity of'the land and which afflict the church of God. We have endeavored to speak with soberness and truth; we have not overdrawn the picture. Have not these evils of which we have spoken a hold more or less secure on us? Do we see nothing in our own immediate neighborhood, in our congregation, to lament? My young friends, we make a special ap peal to you in this matter. The un born good or evil of this country is with you. Oh! that God would bap tize you with his Holy Spirit, that you might keep his Sabbaths and rev erence his holy day; that you might be kept from all intoxicante as from the plague of small pox, or yellow fe ver, that you might hate covetousness and love all honest work with its slow but steady gains, thus shall you be rich toward God and in all good works. The Missionary's Little Joke. A native Maori chieftain, the de scendant of cannibal kings, is now completing his medical education in Chicago. Cannibalism ended in his tribe, he says, when Bishop Selwyn converted his grandfather; but he tells some stories of it which have a distinctly humorous flavor. For in stance: It is said that once a chief captured a missionary who was anything but a toothsome morsel, as he was old and thin and looked as if his flesh would be tough. The missionary warned the chief'that he vvould not make a good dinner, and pulling up his trousers, cut a slice off the calf of his leg and offer ed it to the chief. The chief tasted it, said he didn't like it and passed it to a subchief. The sub tasted it, made a wry face and passed it on. The next man who took a bite of it spat it out. Tha missiona ry was released. After he had gone it was discovered that he wore a cork leg. _ _ Paid With a Snub If anything roils a woman, it is to have some younger woman get up and offer her a seat in a street car. This misplaced civility infers that the elder woman is to be considered on account of her age, when, in fact, there is little difference in years between the two. I witnessed a droll bit of comedy the other day in a Brookline electric that makes me smile every time I think of it. The car was full, with several passengers standing, when in bounced a stout, well preserved person, with white hair beautifully pompadoured. She was dressed in deep mourning, butabunchof violets in thefrontof the coat gave a touch of "mitigation," to her grief, which was quite borne out by a mo riment lurking in her mouth and eyes. The lady grasped a strap and looked out of the window. Then suddenly a young person sitting near, observing perhaps that no man in the car intended to offer his seat, rose and leaning forward touched the other on the arm, saying: * "Won't you haye my seat?" "Are you going to get out?" asked the standee. "No, ma'am," replied the tactless creature, "but you are older than I, and-" but the sentence was never finished. If a glance could slay, that young person would have fallen on the floor dead. "Thank you. When I am too old to stand up, I shall not enter a public conveyance." That was all. The junior woman slunk back into the seat, and some of the passengers tittered.-Cincinnati Enquirer. Rheumatism-Catarrh, are Blood Dis eases-Cure Free! It is the deep-seated, obstinate cases of Catarrh and Rheumatism that B. B. B. (Botanic Blood Balm) cures. It matters not what other treatments, doctors, sprays, liniments, medicated air, blood purifiers, have failed to do, B. B. B. always promptly reaches the real cause and roots out and drives from the bones, joints, mucous mem brane, and entire System the specific poison in the blood that causes Rheu matism and Catarrh. B. B. B. is the only remedy strong enough to do this so there can never be a return of the symptoms. Don't give up hope but ask your druggist for B. B*. B.-Bo tanic Blood Balm of 3 Bs.-Large bottles $1, six bottles (full treatment) $5. B. B. B. is an honest remedy that makes real cures of all Blood Diseases after everything else fails. We have absolute confidence in Bo tanic Blood Balm; hence, so you may test it, we will send a Trial Bottle Free on request. Personal medical advice free. Address Blood Balm Co., 380 Mitchell St., Atlanta Ga. - A girls' seminary at Auburndale, N. Y., has a fully organized cadet corps that drills with Springfield rifles. - The Phoenicians were not the inventors of the alphabet. The hon or belongs to the Egyptians. W. 0. T. U. DEPARTMENT. Conducted by the ladies ot* the W. C. T. U. of Anderson, S. C. The Silent Example. It is an education to come in per sonal contact with a good man. He ; may not utter a precept, but his ex ! ample is an efficient teacher. The Rev. Robert Balgarnie, an English clergyman who preached at Scarbo rough, once rendered, unknowu to himself, a great service to a young man by the influence of his silent ex ample. The unconscious benefit is de scribed by the Rev. Newman Hali, in his ''Autobiography." A lady wrote to Mr. Balgarnie, say ing that she owed him more gratitude than she could express. She had a son who was struggling against the evil habit of drinking. She dreaded his going to Scarborough, lest the cus toms of society might lead him away. She dreaded the example, not of the worldly, but of Christian professors who took wine. Her son had written to say that he had been at an evening party where ' wine was handed round. He was j about to take it, followiug the ex ample of some respectable and good people, when he saw that Mr. Balgar nie refused it. This fortified him to resist the temptation, which with him might have led to ruin. Mr. Balgarnie's silent example not only saved the mother's boy, but ex pressed the rule of the great apostle : "If meat make my brother to offend [to stumble], I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend."-Youth's Compan ion. i? ? ? Bum in Africa. Bishop Tugwell, of the English Church Missionary Society at Lagos, West Africa, in a letter to the Lon don Times, reports that enormous quantities of gin, rum, and brandy are pouring inro British West Africa through Lagos, Akassa, Bonny, and other ports. He affirms that within a few days of the time of his writing thousands of cases of intoxicants hud been stocked on the wharves of the merchants. Drinking habits are being formed, not only amoDg the heathen and Mohammedans, but among the better classes. Seventy-five percent of the deaths amongst the Europeans are attributed to their drinking habits. While some of the British officials seem to oppose thc traffic, they do it ineffectually. An enormous revenue is derived from the traffic, but the moral degradation is still more enor mous. The bishop says: "It ?9 a shameful and horrible hypocrisy to boast of "ur imperial greatness and suffer such evils to*go unchecked." In an appeal to Christian Englishmen to take some prompt and definite action in the matter, he calls for the prohibition of ?he importation of spirits in districts where thc trade has not yet been introduced, and that in other districts the duty on the imports shall bo raised so that the price shall be come practically prohibitive. That this letter of Bishop Tugwell's in the Times has greatly aroused the British traders in Lagos is evidenced by the fact that they have brought an action for libel against him on his return to Africa. The committee of the Church Missionary Society has hastened to assure the bishop of their sympathy and of their readiness to accept the pecuniary responsibility for his de fense. Possibly the stir ?hus made will serve to arouse a proper public sentiment for the suppression of the evil. _" - A boy, 14 years old, who was told to write all he could about breath ing in a composition, handed in the following: "Breath is made of air. We breathe with our lungs, our lights, our liver and kidneys. If it wasn't for our breath, we would die when we slept. Our breath keeps the life a-going through the nose when v e are asleep. Boys that stay in a room all day should Tiot breathe. They should wait until they get outdoors. Girls kill thc breath with corsets that squeezes the diagram. Girls can't holler or run. like boys because their diagram i? squeezed too much. If I was a girl I had rather be a boy so I can run and holler and have a great big diagram." -Detroit Free Press. Th8 Words of a Famous Mission Wo?rkei* Perhaps no man in Atlanta is better and more favorably known than Mr. John F. Barclay. He for a long time hae been a sufferer from indigestion and dyspepsia. This is what he says: Atlanta, Ga , January 23, 1895. Dr. C. 0. Tyner: Having used Tyncr's Dyspepsia Remedy for several years in my family I gladly add my testi mony to what has already been said in its praise. Without any exception I think it is the finest remedy on the market and nothing would induce me to do without it. JNO. F. BARCLAY. For salo by Wilhite & Wilhite. Sample bo; le free on application to Tyner's Dyspepsia Remedy Co., Atlan ta, Ga. _mt m-mm - The sun, moon and star3 aro noth ing but skylights. - If a man is too fly he is apt to get into the soup. Murderer's Dash for Liberty. ATLANTA, GA., October 21-Edward C. Flanagan, the Dekalb County mur derer, broke from his cell in the Dekalb County jail this morning. As he dash ed through the door and past the guard, who had the murderers breakfast in his hands, he snatched up the two year-oldbaby of Sheril?Talley. Draw ing a long knife from his sleeve and clasping the child to his half-clad breast, the prisoner fled down the jail stairway toward the street and liberty. Down one flight of steps and then through a corridor leading to the sheriff's residence, the only avenue of escape from the prison, Flanagan sped, holding the screaming child with his left arm and brandishing the knife in his right hand. But for the presence of the sheriff in the corridor Flanagan would have escaped. Sheriff Talley iiappened to be in the room into which Flanagan dashed. Mrs. Talley, the child's mother, "was also in the room. The father and mother simultaneously sprang upon the escaping prisoner, Mrs. Talley wielding a broom and the sheriff clutching Flanagan by the neck. The guard came running down the steps at thc same instant in pursuit of the prisoner, and the three of them overpowered Flanagan and tore the child from his grasp. The sheriff then drove him back up the stairs and into the cell at the point of bis pistol. Flanagan has been confined in the Dekalb jail sine*; last February await ing a new trial un the charge of mur dering Miss Ku th Slack, Mrs. Dixon Allen, attempting to murder Mr. George YY*. Allen, and inflicting injuries on the latter's father, Dixon Allen, from which he afterwards died. He has been sentenced to hang but on a plea of lunacy he has been allowed repeated trials. Twisted the Lion's Tail. ALBANY, GA., October 21.-The danger of twisting the lion's tail was pointedly illustrated here to-day. Fred Morris, aged 10, visited Cooper's Circus. Eluding the vigilance of the keepers he seized the tail of the biggest lion and gave it the severest twist Lis small hands were able. With an angry roar the beast thrust its paws through thc bars, grabbed the child's head and nearly pulled it off before he could be rescued. The scalp was nearly torn off and the claws scraped the skull in a dozen places. The child is seriously injured. - If we do our duty and then brag about it we haven't done it. The baby's coming is often looked for ward to as a time of dread and danger. Many women are physically unfit to be come mothers. They are sick and weak in a womanly way and may well look with fear toward the time of maternity. Intelligent preparation for this time is most essential. An athlete " trains " for months before his trial. Most women do not 14 train " at all and yet their trial is to be fifty times as severe as the athlete's. During the period of gestation every woman should use every means t? strengthen the organs that are to be tried. They should be kept in perfect health. The faintest symptom of dis order or disease should be promptly eliminated. Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription is designed to do this very thing-has been doing it for over thirty years. It is the one sure medicine for all female com plaints, It is the only medicine that may be absolutely depended upon to practically abolish the pain and danger of childbirth. It is the only preparation of its kind that is the invention of a reg ularly graduated physician-a skilled and experienced specialist in the cure of diseases of women. 0 Mrs. Emerson Allen, cf Dorset. Ontario Co.. Ont., writes : " I was in ven* poor health for a lonjr time, datincr from the birth of my little girl. 1 tried different doctors and different medicines. I took four bottles of 1 Favorite Prescription ' and seem to be perfectly well again." FOR SALE. ABOUT Niue Hundred Acres FINE LANI) in Fork Township, be tween new F^rry and Hatton'.* Ford. MRS. O. M. CH EN N AU LT, Anderson, ri. C. Oct 2,5, 1899_IS_ FOR SALE. FARM, containing 240 acres, ll miles Southwest from the City ol Ander son. All scientifically terraced and in good state ot cultivation. 4-rootn cot tage, (now,) two tenant bouats and big log barn on the place. Price ?10.00 por acre, spot easb. For further particulars call on or address JOHN J. NORRIS, Anderson,S.C Oct 25, 1899 IS a^mmW^9mW^mW* W Wll/ fUf[[m? WM'HU''iff I KAMI. I t HEADACHE, I j NEURALGIA,* 1 LA GRIPPE. I H Relieves all pain. ^ p 25c. all Druggists. ^ BACKERS BROKERS. GEO. SKALIER & CO., CONSOL, STOCK EXCHANGE BLDG, 60-62 Broadway, - Nsw York. LOTS OF MONEY CAN be made through speculation with deposit of $30.00 [thirty dollars] upward [or.'l percent, margin upward] on the Stock Exchange. The greatest fortunes have been made through speculations in Stocks, Wheat or Cotton. If you aro interested to know how spec ulations are conducted, notify us and wo will send you information and market etter free of charge. Usual commission charged for exe cuting orders. Government, Municipal and Railroad bonds quotations furnished on applica tion for purchase, sale and exchange. Oct 25,1899 1 8 Om MEsas) jC?STORIA L=Jlg^^ gor Infants and Children. 8BBT|| I Always Bo?gh? [ AVeget?blePreparalio?forAs- ?j j, I si??r?g?WcodandRegtila- m i \ ting ^Stomachs and Bowell of || J30g,pg tlLQ ff \ \ j Signature /%W j PromotesDigesUon.ChecTful- ft g iijjr I nessandE?st.Containsnejirier !? nr S? M [ OmurtvMorpmji? nor Mmsrai. p Ul ^?V^LT i KOT NARCOTIC. | lil If Pumpkin Sad' B H[ w Alx.Saina * , ? liva HOQ'UUC Safe - I |,SE ?B^J yfiwirc <5?<? * ! 1.? .^ Sow % F S'a ffr Jlfptrnunt - / K ?fa A IB n 5 Bl O ?:Cas?onattSoiiiz> 'J m B \ ll J M Apcrfec?-Remedy for Cons lipa- jP^^I ?f* IC S 0 i! tion.SourStoinach.DiaiThoea, HI'. %faV : Worais.Convulsions.Feverish- m\ V^BB UA11A j ness and LOSS OF SLEEP, | I 0 ll li fl V O j Tac Simile Signature of ?^/ffi?3?? I ft (waif Q Pl ? 81 O'ht ! NEW "YORK. i ni not yd uuugiii? Wl?j?Jlff?Wl^ojtfiWfe'J^ "'HC CCNTAUR COMPANY. tlCWYOBr CITY. Trade is on the increase, but we want it to increase more. THOUSANDS of Farmers can testify that "Old Hickory," "Tennessee/' "Studebaker' and "Milburn" Wagons are the lightest running and will wear longer than other makes on the market. You may find in this County? these Wagons that have been in constant use for the past twenty years. We also have on hand a large and varied assortment of BUGGIES and CARRIAGES, and a-.noug them the celebrated ''Babcock's," "Columbias," 'Tyson ct Jones," "Columbus," and many other brands. Our record for telling first-class Goods is evident by the blands men tioned above, that we have exclusive sale for in Anderson County. Our "Young Men'?" Buggy b^s no equal. Have also a large and select line of HARNESS, SADDLES, BRI DLES, &c, ?na have recently secured exclusive control and sale of the cele brated "Matthew Heldman" [fatness, which is well kuorvn in this County, and needs no "ialkiug up " The Wagon aud Buggy manufacturers are advancing prices on all their goods on account of the advance in price of all the material, and in conse quence we will have to advance our prices from 85.00 to $10.00 a job ; but we wish to give you a chance to buy before the rise, so you had better join in the procession and buy one of '?ur Buggies or Wagons at once, for on and after September 1st next our prices will be at least So.00 higher than at p.'esen:. We regret having to do this, but cannot gel; around it. Buy now and save this advance. JOS. J. FRETWELL. Will still sell you a first-class Buggy for $30.00. Car riage $85.00. FARMERS, we ask your kind attention for a few minutes. You are coin?1- to turu your land this Fall and Winter are you not ? Well, if you are you must be sure and try one of the SYRi CUSE CHILLED PLOWS. They are the lightest draft Plows and do the best work of any Plow in this country. They are no experiment, as we have been selling them here for the last five years, and we are sure we would not keep them on sale if they would not do thc work wc claim for them. ^ _ Z~~. We ask only what i> fair. If. after you give them a fair trial, they do not do the work satisfactory, you eau bring the Plow back to our Store and get your money back. What could be more fair ? Wc are still selling them at old prices, on account of having contracted before thc recent advances on goods iu our line. Of course there arc some few things that wc cannot sell at old prices, neither can any one else, but as loni; as wc have any goods bought at old prices you can rest assured that you will get them that way. t f . Wc have a full line of tli? best Agricultural Implements that is manufac tured, viz : Thc AVERY DISC PLOW. THOMAS HAY RAKES and CUTAWAY HARROWS of all sizes. Be sure and see our TORRENT HARROW, which does the work of three Turn Plows at one time. Will bc pleased to sec you at any time, so don't forget us when in the city. BROCK BROS. FLOUR.FLOUR ! .->!>0 BARRKL8. GOT every grade you are looking for. We know what you want, and we've got the prices right. Can't give it to you, but we will sell you high grade Flour 25 to 35c cheaper than any competition. Low grade Floui S3.00 per barrel. Car EAR CORN and stacks of Shelled Corn. Buy while it is cheap advancing rapidly. We know where to buy and get good, sound Corn cheap. OATS, HAY and BRAN. Special prices by the ton. We want your trade, and if hones:: dealings and low prices count we will get it. Yours for Business, O. D. ANDERSON & BRO. agk. Now is your chance to get Tobacco cheap. Closing out odds and ends in Caddies.