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"THE PAULINE WORD." Sermon on Lawlessness by the Rev. W. L. Seabrook. The followirg Synopsis of a sermon delivered by the Rev. W. L. Seabrook, pastor of the Lutheran Church of the Redeemer, in this city, appeared in yesterday's issue of the News and Courier, along with sermons delivered from other pulpits throughout the state on the same subject: After calling attention to the work of The News and Courier and other newspapers of the state in the interest of law and order, he said that many pastors in the state would today pre sent this subject to their people, and uttered .the prayer, "God grant Thy servants this day grace to speak faith fully, wisely and unselfishly for God and home and our state, and to Thy servants, who hear grace to heed the message, and wisdom and boldness to do Thy will." - He took as his text Phil 1:27, (re vised version, margin), "Only Behave as a Citizen Worthily of the Gospel of Christ," and said that the word of the apostle to the Philippians. comes as a personal message to the people of South Carolina. Let me read the text with the con text as though it were written directly to us, and judge ye if in view of our community life the world is not the very word for us today. "Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, too all the saints in Jesus Christ which are in South Carolina, with the Bishops and dea cons. Grace be unto you and peace from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ. * "This I pray, that your love may abound vet more and more in know! adge and in all discernment, that ye may approve the things that are ex cellent, that yc may he sincere and without offence till the day of Jesus Christ. "Only behave as a citizen worthily of the Gospel of Christ-steadfast in one spirit-with one soul striving to gether with the faith of the gospel. "And in nothing terrified by your adversaries, which is to them an evi dent token of their destruction, but of your salvation and that from God. "Because that to you it hath been granted in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on Him, but also to suffer in His behalf." Every man has in the earth life a two-fold .existence-that which he has as a private individual, with the rela tions in which it involves him in his private, individuial life-that which he has in relation to all others in the state and may be called his public ex istence, as a citizen, conferring upon him certain privileges and imposing certain responsibilities and duties. Most men recognize this fact in a greater or lesser degree. There is one sentiment to which appeal may be made in all men. love of home and love of country.' To those who recog nize only their earthly citizenship no higher appeal can be made than to their patriotism. A true patriot, a , good citizen must feel a five fold ob ligation to obedience to the laws of the state he loves, reverence for its institutions; defence of its rights; the highest welfare of its people; unwav ering hostility to every influence that threatens its peace and prosperity. The Christain citizen holds this sentiment of patriotism in common with all good citizens. No man can be a Christain and not be a patriot. This his religion teaches him, by pre cept and principle an'd by the life of his great Exemplar, who though He came to save all mankind, confined His preaching and His teachintg to His own country, and shed tears of bitter sorrow as He thought of her coming calamity. But the citizenship of the Christain is two-fold. In our navy there is one flag that is sometimes thrown to the breeze above the flag of our country. When religious service is held on ship board, there floats above the Stars and Stripes a triangle of white bear ing on its snowy folds a blue cross. The one flag must to the Christain citizen give meaning to the other, and for it inspire him with greater love. St. Paul tells him that if he would be loyal to both he must "perform his duty as a citizen worthily of the Gos pel of Christ;" the appeal - is to all "bishops and deacons" and "all saints in Tesus Christ," and each is responsi ble' for his influence according to tl station he occupies. The apostle not satisfied with the general appea but follows it with specific instrui tions. Our love of country must I intelligent: "I pray that your love ma abound yet more and more in know edge." There are some things th, we cannot help knowing unless N wilfully close our eyes. Some thing we know of our own state. We kno that lawlessness is increasing; th, human lig is cheap; that murdei have become so common that it is a leged that the safest crime that ca be committed in South Carolina i the crime of murder; that courts ar not always faithful and just; thz theircjuries are not always true t their juries are not always true t grade their high calling; that briber: fraud and the use of intoxicating I quors as a potent influence in ot primaries is becoming more and mor common; that the majority of th homicides in our state during the paE two years were committed by me who were either under the influenc of liquor at the time or whose mor; sense had been debauched by indu: gence in liquor; that the state for th sake of revenue fosters a syster which makes it easy for men to bt come Inwless. All this we know, br merely to know is not enough; ou knowledge must be "in all discerr ment." The Christain citizen mw discern his relation to all these thing! that he may do his full duty. As a individual it is his duty to live as Christain "worthily of the gospel c Jesus Christ." His own private lif must be above reproach; his influenc by voice and vote must ever be caE against all that makes for lawlessnes or tends to bring reproach upon th fair fame of his state. The solution of all. our problems i in the hands of the Christian peopl of our Commonwealth: if every ind: vidual Cristian will aply these prir ples i. his ov-n personal life in his a1 titude toward all those things whic make for unrighteousness, if th Christian people of our state wi "stand fast in one spirit with one sot striving together wit'i the faith of th gospel." united, steady. earnest i faith; "in nothing terrified by yot adversaries," not faint-heartedly sa% ing we can do nothing, not afrai of criticism or misjudgment, the r .sult is not doubtful. The reteal c hurtful laws, the enactment of hell ful legislation, the faithful executio of the laws of the state depend upo the faithful, courageous obedience t the higher law of the gospel on th part of the Christian citizens of th commonwealth.'If they will stand tc gether knowing the evil, discernin their relation to it, united, stead' earn est, patient, counting the cos but unafraid, ready to make sacrifice trusting in God, they will create moral sentiment before which legish tors must bow, courts hold the ba: ance of justice even, juries do thei duty; vice and crime be held in chec and the peace and prosperity of th state be assured. The good order, th peace, the prosperity of the state in the hands of her Christian citizen; and to each comes the Pauline word "Only behave as a citizen worthily the Gospel of Christ." EGYPTIAN LANGUAGES. Forthcoming Dictionary Corpiled b Berlin Academy of Science. Philadelphia Ledge'r. A brief dispatch from Berlin cor veys intelligence which will thrill ti heart of every scholar. It announc< the near completion of Professor E: man's momunmental "Dictionary< the Ancient Egyptian Languages," work endowed by the Kaiser, con piled by the Berlin Academy Sciences and airded in no small d< gree by the best American eruditic Professor Erman, the editor is easil the foremost Egyptologist of til .world, though he has toiled in a fiel wherein there has been friendly coi tention for many years among ti scholars of France, England, Ge: many, Italy and America. The field has been so fertile the the forthcoming dictionary is credi ed with containing 280,000 wvords< subjects. We shrewdly suspe that the cablegram has confused tI Egyptian word with the ideograr which is only a picture or a pictor; symbol. The oldest records of the Egyptia languae atale ac tohnbot B. ( te 4.0oo and it did not die out as a is tongue until about three centuri s 1, ago. Professor Erman's great book :- will, of course, embrace its long his >e tory, and the many changes it under .y went. I- In one of his own published mono it graphs on the subject he shows how ,e the language of the old Egyptian em, -s pire was no more intelligible to an w Egyptian of the rgth dynasty, for ex Lt ample, than Latin would be to the -s average Italian of the present day. I- Long after old Egyptian, the classi n cal tongue of the old empire, had s ceased to be spoken, it led an arti ,e 0 0 e I and the migh n Ll been plunj Great Dr The C Every day the e Dry Goods Buyet Goods selling yo berry. Bolt afte s Stuffs told us by< the buggies and for 50 miles arou homeward, neith but come to the e day this week. I n in the store and dsurprise you. M here and pass th still selling it for READ EVERY Dress Goods! Dress C The lazy sheep would be si know how cheap we are selling tDress FGoods, and would giv sgrowing in despair. We own o a of shelving, packed and jammec Wool Dress Goods. Into ever) Smighty knife has slashed. ,cheaper this week than you e e them before. e100 pieces fine Black Dress Gc swide, worth frem $1.50 to $3 ~'per yard 98c. '100 pieces beautiful East of Eng SCloth, full 54 inches wide, s shrunk, worth $1.25 to $1.50 it one week at The Cash Stc 50 bolts 55 inch Suiting in Gr SBlue, Black, etc., worth 85: cut the week's price to 48c. ) 100 yards fine 55 inch Jappo great suit material for ladies' dren's suits, worth 75c. yd. 39c. yd. - On center counter table No. > find 100 Dolts the newest weaves a Greens, Blues, Garnets, Gre' Plaids, Mixtures, etc., worth ur: yard, one week's price 45c. Sstay away. Remember, Re prices are quote Seither of the Car Newberry's Chet The New icial life as a learned language. play ing much the same part as Latin played in medieval Europe, and was regirlarly employed for religious and monumental purposes down to the Roman period. Then followed the middle Egyptian representing an in termediate stage between the langu age of the old and new empire. In it most of the old forms and in flections are retained, but none of the peculiarities of the latter speech make their appearance, this being the Neo-Egyptian or peculiar language about B. C., i5oo-iooo. It is re EHACI ty knife of ct yed still deep -ess Goods SE 'ash last week the r -s packed our stc u have never see r bolt of the Worl 3 bye as they wer wagons of sati nd. People, don' er worry over ot] mighty Dress Gc Peep into every r you will find bi eet your friends e words along-T less. ULNE, COMPARE E ioods! In fine wa irprised to all here. fine Wool Over 5,C e up wool French Flai ver 60 feet $1.00 yd. lwith fine Capet r piece the Buy them Over five ver bought Jackets jus1 long Coats, >ods, 44-in, and Casters .00, choice priced spec rland BroadBane ponged and 'l wo grea yard. Buy lina Blank< re 95c. yd. week only $ ey, Brown, 50 pairs l :yd. We $7.00 pair. rd. $1,000ODC Cloth, the Skirts at spe and chil- ~ .Rugs This week -Over 50C 2 you will cheap this ~ 'in Browns, Underwer ts, Broken thing kept i to si.oo priced right. yd. Don't 1000 yar< ____ ____ ___ yard. ople, it makes no di you, not only ii olinas, you can I apest Store. The 'benru Ca: CALDWELL. Mai presented by a number of papyri containing tales. letters and legal documents. From about B. C., 700 to the Christian era the language ot the Egyptian people was th -motic, about which comparatively II.le is known; and it was succeeded by the language of Christion Egypt, or Cop tic, written in a modification of the Greek alphabet with the addition of characters derived from the demotic. As a spoken language it perished about 300 years ago but is still em ployed in the ritual of the Coptic church. it prices has er into the hction of otore. nighty army of re. Such Dress n before in New d's Latest Dress e heaped up into sfied customers L turn your faces iers' high prices, )ods Sale every ook and corner irgains that will and neighbors he Cash Store is VERY PRICE. tist goods you will find them '00 yards in Silk and Wool, mnel, Silks, etc., priced up to This week's price 45c. yd. ;, Jackets and Furs! hundred dollars' worth snew :received. All the new belted short Coats, in Brown, Blue, ,all the new ones, are here, al for this week. s! Blankets! Blankets! t cages, all-wool, North Caro its, worth $5.00 pair. This 2.89. Aedicated Grey Blankets worth Buy 'em today $3.69. >llars' worth Ladies' ready made icial prices this week. ville Sure Enough! Handsome Rugs to be sold reek. tr, Hosiery, Cloves, and every i an up-to-date Notion stock, is Table Linen, this week 23c. difference what i Newberry, but uy it for less at re's just one, 'tis sh SCOre, iag-er.