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DR. HALLMANS' SERMON. Thanksgiving Services - Outlines Many Things that People of this World Should be Thank ful For. At the First Prsbyterian church Thanksgiving day union services of the churches of Spartanburg were held, says the Spartanburg Journal, the sermon being preached by the Rev. S. T. Hallman, D. D., pastor of the Lutheran church. A large con gregation was present, the church be ing crowded with people from all the churches in the city. Dr. Hallman preached an earnest and thoughtful sermon, which was most appropriate for the occasion, the subject being, "Some Causes for Devout Grati tude." The Than'-sgiving sermon was to have been preached by the Rev. R. E. Neibhbour, pastor of the Southside Tabernacle Baptist church, but he is ill with fever, and Dr. Hall man was asked to preach to the peo ple of the city on this occasion. He was notified Tuesday evening that he would be expected to preach Thanes giving. Dr. Hallman preahed from the 137th Psalm, fifth verse: "If I forget thee, 0 Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning." These words, he said, were freighted with the sad spirit of the exile far from home an.A nat-ive land, yet they show how much the captive Jew loved the land of his childhood, made doubly sacred by the loss and hallowed associations. He could never forget the glorious tem ple and the living presence of the God of his fathers. When the happy dreams of his childhood passed in retrospect before his longing eyes, he wept.; he could appreciate the blessings which his ovn ingratitude had taken from him. Zion was -the dearest spot on earth to him and death would. have been sweet if that could have restored him to his- home and native land. The bitter experience of the- exile Jew, he said, is very suggestive to the people of this day and time, who so often forget the present benefac tions. Not until they have flown, do most men realize their sweetness, their greatness and their importance. Here Mr. Hal.hnan outlined some cause for gratitude. IHe spoke of home, which, he said, there is no sweeter word in the voca 1bulary-the Christian home. Home, he said, is not a pile of bricks and mortar; not a splendid residence, but *a place where love, innocence, purity, honor and joy reign supreme. He spoke of the church as a spiritual home and where the church and the bome blend in glorious unity-- there God dwells and angels love to linger an dsalvation comes to men. Dr. Hallman next spoke of country -our country-and in the trinity home, church and country, there is a veritable Jacob's ladder, leading men to happiness in this life and in the life that is to come. Dr. Hailman told of the advantages the present generation has over past generations and in the progress of the whole world God seems to be laying his treasures at the feet of men. Pro gress is written in all things. The ills which afflicted man in the ages that have past are now removed and by application of seientific and medical laws human life is lengthened., Invention, he said, 'has lessened man's la.bors that life on earth might be like an existence in some shaded bower in the Garden of- Eden. He spoke of the rapid development in ag rieultural interests, in the densely populated cities and towns and t-he flash of the electric light that has taken the place of the tallow dip and pine knot. The trend of the times is -upward and onward and to the glory of God. The people of the United States and those of all the nations of the world have much to inspire devout -gratitude to God. The people of this -country enjoys residence in the great est country on the globe, for five of the first class powers of Europe could be laid down three times west of the Hudson river. It is great as to -wealth, for it is one of the richest nations in the world, exceeding the wealth of England by several millions. It is great in knowledge, freedom, church and State, for here all the peoples of the world might blend in grand unity. It is a country of homes, love and loyalty to home, loyalty to church and to country, which are greater than standing armies and great navies. It is a land of the Bible -and the preached Word, without which no nation can live, he said. Anchored on God's pure word. he said, and the lives of men squatced by its divine percept. and holy faith ever burning in the hearts of men, the world will be beautiful and heaven will be the eternal inheritance. SUNDAY EXCURSIONS WRONG. Methodist Conference Registers Its Protest-Other Denominations Asked to Unite. Laurens, Nov. 27.-Among the im portant and noteworthy transactions of the third business session of the South Carolina Methodist Confer- I ence, in session here, was the unani- i mous election this morning of the Rev. Edward King Hardin as mis- i sionary evangelist for the conference, i vice the Rev. J. W. Speake. Mr. I Hardin was, on yesterday, admitted ] to the conference; today he is exalted i to a powerful and important position i among his brethren. He is quite a E young man, a 1904 graduate of Wof ford college, attended Princeton one year, and has been a local preacher of the Rock Hill district during the I past year. He is a native of Green- I wood county, a man of commanding ; ph,%sique, a powerful command of t language, an orator of no mean ability t and a scholar withal. The committee on Conference Re- I lations reported this morning by ad ding the names of R. W. Barber, J. K. McCain, Geo. W. Waddell, and W. C. Winn to the superannuated list, which was adopted by the conference and. t referred to the committee for that t purpose. John Manning was recom- I mended by the committe for super- I numerary relations. These names-will be reported on at later session. The old list of superannuates remains the same, exceptiong the name of Dr. A. M. Chrietzberg. The following young ministers were admitted into full connection after two years of study. This means that they are now licensed to administer the Sacrament and perform the mar riage ceremony, yet they are required two years more of study. They are: Thos. W. Godbold, H. Baseomb Hardy, Tracy W. Munnerlyn, James K. Inabinet, Johes T. Miller and John R. Walker. An interesting resolution was intro duced by I. W. Bowman, Esq., of Or angeburg, and unanimously adopted by the conference. It reads: Whereas. an unholy custom has been instituted among many of the railroads of our State of running ex eursion trains on Sunday to the var ious pleasure resorts of this and ad joining States, and of selling tickets and transporting passengers on Sun day to said resorts at greatly reduced rates; and Whereas, this custom of running said excursion trains and of trans porting passengers at reduced rates to said resorts is exceedingly demoraliz ing in its effects upon the people of our beloved State, and contributes neither to the glory of God nor to the betterment of manikind: Now, there fore, be it Resolved, That it is the sense of the Orangeburg District Conference of the M. E. Church, South, that the railroads of the State of South Car olina should discontinue the custom of running Sunday excursion trains and selling tickets and transporting passengers to pleasure resorts on Sun day at reduced rates, and that said railroads are hereby respectfully re quested to refrain from same. That this Orangeburg District Con ference hereby memorializes the South Carolina Annual Conference to adopt resoilutions similar to those above and to eall on the other Chris tian churches of the State to join with that body in condemning Sunday excursions on the said railroads and of selling tickets and transporting passengers at reduced rates on Sun day to pleasure resorts. The conference immediately adopt ed a resolution embodying the sense of the above, and calling upon the Baptist Convention, Presbyterian Sy nod, etc., to pass similar resolutions. So it seems that the religious bodies of the State will make a combined ef fort against the week-end pleasuret exursions. IS PROHIBITION WISE? Men have for a long time been ex perimenting with alcoholic drinks. The fact that many such drinks "go down smoothly'-are pleasant to the taste-that many of them are but small infusions of alcohol in liquors that are otherwise wholesome and eveA nourishing and that the narcots. effects of alcohol have a peculiar fas ination for men still in a primitive state of development. has given this insidious poison a vogue which other wise it could never have had. Primi tive man rejoices exceedingly at find ing out how to make or to obtain stimulating drinks. They please his taste and exalt his imagination. I f his discovery is of a mode of manni facturing. it is usually of a drink Ce mild as to be largely harmnless. But if he gets his alcohol from m>re~ so. phisticated races, who have already learned the art of making it strong, then hi igo-nnance of its uli;mate 'orn ;equences and his greed for its im nediate effects are sure to work grim I lisaster. The Indians of North AmIr ca and the blacks of the West Coa-t )f Africa are examples of this th.at vill at once occur to the mind. In modern times and in civilized ands the ill effects of the alaholie >oison are so well known that t!.e :ondness of primitive man for drink-.i ng it has been very much curbed. L'his has largely come about ratug' ;he general introduction of forms of dlcoholic drinks that have nothing. )ut the alcohol to recommend theut. dild wines and watery beer still ex- 1 .st, but they are not popular. The nan who drinks wants something : ;trong. It is always a necessity to be de-. )recated when society has to lay re ;traints upon the individual. Yet only >y such restraints can there be scocie ;y. The really altruistic members ot ;ociety are, however, a law unto ;hemselves. They are so desirsous of ;he good of others that they never inowingly do anything which will iarm another. No law for the good )f the community bea:s Lard upon ,hem, for they already ob-y it in pirit. But for those who count per onal preferences and the grat'fica ion of individual tastes more impor ant than the good of humanity some -estraints are needed. All lax s in ringe upon "personal liberty " if by >ersonal liberty is meant the right t , lo damage to others. Ought society to be protectel tgainst the ravages of alcohol? There eems to be no division of opinion on his as concerns the childlike peoples. ndians in our own country are rigid y protected by the Federal govein nent. - The negroes of the Congo ught to be protected against Boston um; but hitherto the New England onscience, which has suffered many ;hroes about the black man in the 5outh, has failed to check this shock ng troffie having its seat in the very enter of what proudly boasts itself ;o be the capital of our civilization. et even the men who sell rum to the Alacks will admit that they do it for noney, not for the good of their cus ;omers. As to the use of alcoholic diinks, nost civilized men are agreed that it s childish to gratify a physical ap yetite at the cost of one's well-being. Jonvinced that alcohol is a poison, FEW PEOPLE F WITH CASH F Our custome A check acco Bank will el difficulties o1 funds as you Your busines corned. .. THE EXCHANG of Newbe J. D. DAVENPORT, President. SOME OF OU To be conservative. To pay four per cent. To calculate interest semi To bond every employee. To be progressive and acc To lend our money to oum To treat our patrons cour To be liberal and prompt To secure busmness from a TO BE THE VERY BES ' TO DO BUSINESS Our institution is under the s examined by the State Bank Ex: The Bank of Pt osperii DR. GEO. Y. HUNTER, President. J. F. BROWNE, ev wil n11L dr-ink it. eitLher because hey like the taste of beer or brandy r to gratifv those childish social 1ustoms which grew up when the *ave was more boyish than it is now, ud thought that howling and ,omiting and bestial insensibility 'great sport." All rational men )ught to be total abstainers. This 1o doubt they are, in their minds, ;hough a good many still drink at ;imes, either in deference to some atuous social custom or because they :ancy that whiskey "braces them ip" or has some other fictitious val ie. Many of these gentlemen think it neumbent on them to oppose statu :ory prohibition. "We do not need ;uch meddlesome laws," they say. Eet they do not object to laws pro iibiting the indiscriminate sale of norphine and other poisons. All ;uch laws are for the protection of ;he weak, for the sake of those who lo need them. Boys and young men are still semi ;avage. They have no better sense, nany of them, than to like to get Irunk. They are the weak members >f our society. Strong drink ought ;o be made as inaccessible to them as )ossible. After trying many experi nents in the way of regulating this raffic, and seeing them all fail be ause of the cupidity and dishonesty )f the saloons, the sensible people of ;hese United States are rapidly com ng to the conclusion that we have iothing to lose and much to gain by Lbsolute prohibition. "It will not work," say those who -laim to be friends of temperance but ire enemies of prohibition. But it vill work, it does work. It makes Irinking difficult, and therefore rare. t stops public treating and will soon d1l the treating habit, that fruitful nother of drunkards. It outlaws the aloon in fact; it was already an out aw by nature. It purifies the atmos yhere of city places of amusement vhere the sexes mingle, and thus aves many an innocent and ignorant Yirl from ruin. It brands a man who s drunk as ipso facto a lawbreakery ind thus in time will make drunken TRESPASS NOTICE. No hunting or trespassing on the lands of the undersigned under the >enalty of the law.. t - Sam Tribble. 'AY BILLS 'HESE DAYS rs know this. unt with this iminate any r using your wish. ... s will be wel E. BANK rry, 'S. C~. lr. L. SPEARMAN, Cashier. R POLICIES: -annually. ommodadu~g. -customers. teously. 11 classes. IT BANK FOR YOU WITH. upervision of and regularly miner. Prosperity, ty, S.C. DR. J. S. WHEELER, V. President. J. A. COUNTS, A miKnt Cahier. lolidau Shoppers Don't Put 1101! Be wise and buy your holiday goods now. By buying early you avoid the rush that is sure to come later, and you get the selection that you can't get if you wait. BUY NOW)l. Holiday sug gestions are displayed everywhere on our well filled shelves and counters. We have IUNDREDS OF SUITABLB GIFTS In Post Cards, Albums, Bibles, Collar and Cuff Boxes, Smoking Sets, Fancy Baskets, Silver Ware, China Ware, Vases, Bureau Sets, Box Paper, Picture Frames, etc., etc. Toysl Toys by the Hundred, Dolls, Drums, Carts, Wagoi.s, Tool Chests, Guns, Pastry Sets, Tea Sets, Books, Drawing Sets, Trains, Magic Lanterns and many others too numerous to mention. : : : SEE TOY-LAND AT nderson 10c.Co. HOLIDAY SHOPPING A large part of the annual holiday worry could be eliminated if the right gifts and the right people could get together. That is what I ha"e set out to do this year--brmng gift buy ers and goods they want together. The list given herewith wili no doubt suggest many suitable gifts. Make a list of all such items so that when you come to the store to see the goods you will not have to waste time looking at things that you may not be interested in. I have the CREAM OF TH E WORLD'S GIFTS. Something for every age and condi dition, You will find it a genuine sat faction to buy your holiday gifts here. I hope that you can find time to come soon and often. My magnificent as sortment and prices will make this an easy and economical holiday time for all. I have a large steck of .Pocket Books and Purses, Toilet Sets and Traveling Sets, Hand and Stand Mirrors. Holiday Stationery, Ink Wells, Fountain and Gold Pens, Oxford Bible, Books of all kinds, French Stag Horn Sets, Ebony Goods, Fancy Calendars, Shaving Sets, Puff Boxes,. Manicure Sets, Work Boxes, Pictures, Statuary, Vases. Chafing Dishes, Christmas Cards, Fancy China, Cut Class, Sterling Silver and Jewelry.