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0 S 0 0 ++++0O@ 0se 0 Th* eal n N w ei seieaotopitaEatre exr* deuigmte n a _ _ _e prannoteEasteron WTh theald nd ews folo ige tionr, was nt orh pastos tof pthe acomrchslinrthisucounty,eandiwe arel gl to ae atfet mostr pagte hav rpodderfungmlley and artglalys prinin the theswser ti conet. t thaterice and the rogramifo lte Eter wa te: epstr o h ewbcerry in thsCo, arch 19, are9 heerd cherulnd wepet gldo print theirEaser eiti onec9thion. Theridel.maiyws og thuservice and e gam fod te uewberry coul sCure aM otarchicle909 Dreach Sir: nte atr ee brTion Had and ulnewof texpervices print he Eeretionhl on Eater S ught It would appecateoo fea much a short article along this line from you, and would like to have the .copy just as soon as you can possibly give it to me. Let me have this not later than next week. Very truly yours, E. H. Aull. ************ * THE KINARDS CIRCUIT.* *** ** * ~* * * * * * * * ** Kinards, S. C., 3-25, '09. Co Aull: My Dear Sir: Yours reeeived, and I thank you for opening your columns to the min isters. In reply I will say that we have no program for Easter Sabbath, as my work is so seattered. I shall try to preach a sermon on the subject of "The Resurrection''. I am not sure that I can give you "a short article'' on the subject as I am andi have been exceedingly unwell for a week. suffering much with Vestig'o, and other complications which render me incompetent to do much especial GOODS THAT Goods that CC and ALSO the I.W. holesale WE ARE MAt for CARRYING found in the tt The Thanking you for the kind invita tion, I am' yours truly, D. P. Boyd. * * * * * * * * * ** * NO SPECIAL SERVICES. * * * Newberry, S. C., March 23, 1909. Hon. E. H. Aull-, Newberry, S. C. Dear Sir: I have your reguest with reference to Easter. In reply I can only say that we have no special service that day. Our church makes no difference betwveen that Sabbath and any other. We observe uo days, have no calen dar. Hence we follow no set program of service for that day. With every good wish for you personally, I am, .Yours truly, - D. G. Phillips. * * * * * * * *- * * * * * * * * * MEANING OF EASTER. Of all 'nracles -the resurrection of our Lord and Savior is the greatest. It is more farreaching in its signifi eenee to us than an~y other fact of the Bible. The Easter season reminds us, that the hope we have as Christians can never die. We see the natural world all about us:in its transit from death to life.' The grasses are springing up and the flowers are donning their beautiful dresses. The buds of the great oaks are fairly bursting with new life, and the forest will soon be covered with a mantle of foliage. "If God so clothe th]e grass of the field, shall He not much more clothe you. O ye of little faith?'' Now, who but God 's children can adequately appre e iate these thing? "This is my Father's world. He shines in all that 's fair: In the rustling grass I hear him pa~ss He speaks to me everywhere.'' SELL ARE THC )NTINUE to Sell TASTE. We.? KIB STREET AN! Grocers NTAINING OUR the BEST and City in the WI Churcht OLD BYl1 us a larger and grander vision of our possibilities as hs servants. With His promise, "Lo, I am with you aiway, even unto the end,'' in our minds we are willing to undertake any thing for the advancement of his kingdom. While we may be weary, and, to a de gree discouraged, as we cling to the foothills of life, as soon as we fully realize that He has promised to be our constant companion an'd to join His resurrection power to our efforts, we catch a glimpse of.the glory-cir led summit and resolve to climb no matter what difficulties seem to ob struct the way. The resurr'eetion means that there is something infinitely greater in store for us than what we now pas sess. It reminds us of what, by and by, we shall be. We are to reach -the very highest form of life. He is now inviting us to this. By His resurree tion life.and power we shall pass into. glory, ..honor, eternal life. "For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face.'' "It is 'sown in corruption, it is raised in incorrup tion; it is sown in disohonr. it is rais ed in glory; it is sown in weakness, iL is raised in power; it is sown a niatur al body, it is raised a spiritual body.'' And really is not this what we all are living and working for any way? the glorious consuaimation of all our hopes in a living and exalted Christ. Ot-is A. Jeffcoat. Whitmire, S. C., 3-22, '09. * *1 * DR. McCLINTOCK COMMENDS * * WdRK. * * * * ** ** **'* * * * * *** Col. E. H. Aull, Editor Herald apa News, Dear Friend: Your kind letter reached me today and is appreciated. I regret that some previous engage ments hinder me from complying with your kind request. With best wishes for your' sucs in ticommendable enterprise. Sincerely. E. P. MeClintock. Newherry, . C. March 22, 1909. SSE THAT ATTF are Those that F ~ave tried to Cc LENR ), C. N.&-L. F Sand Co WELL EARNE] LARGEST LINE [OLESA LE G.R ( *te+O+O+O+O+ ?sof *HE PAST * ** ** * ** ***** * * . ** * --President J. H. Harms. * * * * ** *.** ** * ** ** ** * In the Easter story Thomas is in teresting and typical. He said he would not believe that Jesus was ris en from the dead until he had seen the nail.prints in His hands and laid his fingers on the spear wound in His side. It was too unusual for T:homas to believe .it. He. shook his head and doubted, because the hori zon of his world of dreams did not take in resurrections. They did have a place in the world as Thomas had plotted it. His soul was. tethered to the cornmonplace, the usual, the na tural. Such a thing never happened. Terefare it carinog tha.ppen! Thus argued Thomas. The resurrection >is unusual, super natural, otherworldly. It takes big room to hold -it. It calls for faitth, imagination, love. Not that it has no proofs. The resurrection can be es tablished in any impartial court of reason, by its ''many tinfallible proofs." 'But even proofs are not suffi eient. What are they without candor? The convincing power of an argument depends as much upon the size and fibre of the man addressed as upon the logical compulsion of the, ar gument. The Easter fact invites a spirit of readiness to be convinced, and an equal readiness to act upon the inpulse of -convicticin. Easter calls for faith as -well as argument. Thomas asked for argument. It is better to ask for faith. ''Blessed are they that lHave not seen and Vet have believed." And this is the true Eas ter preparation, to make room for a fact, the Easter fact. the fact that puhes out the frontiers of thoughit and joyful purospect and1 le'ds us a Ie,on his presen t ea rnal scene to vi-ions~ of ' 'sweet fields array ed in liin reen and rivers of dlelight.' .Tbu bought two thing< to light by His resurrection from the grave-likL and 'immortality. It is easier to see the life that it is to see the immortal-j .,*...+.*,**+I ?ACT THE EYE 'LEASE the Eye )mbine the Two &LC( AlILROAD ) REPUTATION of Goods to be ) CE.R Y LINE . .* +@ O 0+4 ~wberry O R S. ity, Beeause this other world, this land where saints -immortal reign, requires that we be loosened from this present [world to see it. We need to get the art of great believing. We fneed to get the wings of glad imagination to bear us up along that shining path that issues from an empty tomb to the radiant thron-e of' a crucified and risen and ascended Lord. We must make large room for the Easter fact, a world that is only big enough for petty callings and paltry lusts is never big enough to hold Easter. Thomas came to his inheritance. Not by reason. Nor by laying fini gers on .the Saviour's wounds. But he came to full assurance by haviiig had wrought in him divinely the pow er of a great persuasion. His moral contractedness was broken up. He' began to see further than he could see distinctly. And this is faith. This is imagination, sanctified by noble vision for the prospect opened by 'the conqueror of Aeath as he annexed the othver world to this and converted the coffin into a cradle of eternal life and swung open.the doors of Paradise by His rising from tha grave. Mental prejudice and certainly moral perverseness have no place, no joy, at the ''great high festival.'' But if we will Easter will dissolve the prejudice and cure the evil heart by the warm light of glorious prospects, and make us greet the Christ in the utter cordialness of that after thought of Thomas: ''My Lord and my God." * * ** * * * * * * ** * * * * * * No Services at A. R. P. Church, * * Prosperity.^ * * * * ** * * * ** * * * Prosperity, S. C., 3-25. '09. Mv Dear Mr. Aull: On account of the meeting of the 2nd Presbytery at Wooariuff, there 'il he no services in my chureh on Easter Sabbath. I thank vou for your~ kindness. Ira S. Caldwell. I,.. @*O.*0 0 0 0 0 S - 0 0 I *0 ors... 0 County * * * * HOT,Y TRINITY, LITTLE * *-. MOUNTAIN. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Holy Trinity church, Little Mouh tai1h, S. C., will have no regular ser vices on Easter day, as the p:astor will hold communion services at Ma cedonia church. But the Sundey school will hold a special Easter ser vice in the afternoon at 4 o 'clock., Rev. E. J. Sox has accenited an invi tation to deliver an address -at these exercises. - istorical. Holy Trinity eongregation was or-~ ganized in a building at Little Moun tain,- owned by Miss Kate Miller, Ja nary 1, 1891, with 34 charter mem-*j bers, and was in a pastorate with St. Peter's, '(Piney Woods) and St.J John' s, (Broad river) in connection with. the Tennessee Synod, Rev. J.-. Efird, pastor. Of the 34 charter mem bers about 19 are st,ill living mem bers of the church which has now an enrolled membership of 210. The corner stone of .the present building Was laid October 3, 1891. Some years after its completion, a commodious Sunday school room was. added and the church generally re nova ted. On December 19, 1892, a petition was received from certain resident members of the place asking for the. union of this congregation with the South Carolina Syriod, for mutual cooperation and general upbuilding of the ehurch. After considerable deliberation the change was made, and Holy Trinity church has since re mained in the South Carolina Synod. During the pastorate of Rev. S. L. Nesse from'1892 to November. 1895, Holy Trinity and St. John 's churches constituted a pastorate, ,Rev. J. G. Shaid,. serving St. Peter's church at that time. But after the tra,sfer of Holy Trinity to the South Carolina Synod, she was alone for about a year, during which time Rev. A. G. VTogt, D. D., then of,the seminary at