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Yin~ 0anuinq Tu~ LO0)U 1S APPELT,. E-ditor. MANNNG, S. C., JULY 3, 1907. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY. SUBsCRIPTION RATES: One yar ................ .:................~I4 Six months ......................... Fout months.................... ADVERTISING RATES: One -'quare. one tiie. $1: each subsequent in sertion. 50 cents. Obituaries and Tributes of Respect charged for as regular advertisements. Li beral contracts made for three, six and twelve Communications must be accompanied by the real name and address of the writer in order to rpiv.-Ire attention. No communication of a personal character will be published except as an advertisement. Entered at thePostoffice at Manning as Ser ond Class matter. Sardinia News. Editor The lannivg Times: The social life of our town has received several welcome addi tions with the homecoming of our college girls and boys, and we are all busy planning differ ent amusements for the season. The young folks met at the new causeway on Thursday and spent the day preparing the grounds for the first basket pic nic. which will be on the 12th of July. They have had an artesian well placed there and are work ing hard to get things in good siape for the picnic, to which the public is very cordially in vited. Miss Lidie McFaddin recently entertained several of her friends in a most delightful way, coin plimentary to Miss Emma Bur gess of Bethel, who was visiting her at that time. Mr. H. Algenron Rose of Sum ter, spent Saturday and Sunday with relatives here. Miss Gertrude DuRant and little niece. Marguret Garland, who have Been on an extended visit with relatives in North Car olina, returned home on last Saturday. Misses Louise and Katie Gail lard of DuRant. were the guests of Miss Edith McFaddin during the past week. Miss Lottie Woods has return ed from a pleasant visit with relatives at Workman. Mr. James Worsham, of Sandy Grove,~was a visitor here last week. Mrs. R. E. McFaddin, Sr., and son, J. E. McFaddin. left a few days ago for North Carolina, where they will spend several weeks visiting friends and rela tives. There will be services by Rev. James McDowell in the academy building on Friday evening, the 5th, at 8 o'clock. The public is very cordially invited. L. STtE OF OHIO. CITX OF TOLEDO-. LUCAs COoUTY FRANK J. CRENEY makes oath that he is the senior partner of the firm of F. J. CHENEY di co., doing business in the city of Toledo. county and stat( aforesaid. andthat said firm will pay the sum ,f ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS fox each and every case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of HALLS CAA R GR sworn to before me and srbscribed in my pres ance. this 6th day of December. A. D. 1886. -.A.-A. wV. GLEASON. SEAL '.Notary Public. Hais Catarrh Cure is taken internally and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system Send fo testimonials, fre Ha~sFamly Pllsare the best. Turbeville Dots. Sp~ecial to The Manning Times: On last Saturday afternoon the Turbeville baseball team lost its first game to the Pud ding Swamp team by the close score of 13 to 11. The game was slow and uninteresting, full of eri-ors and misplays by both sides. The Turbeville boys were at a great disadvantage. several of them having not played to gether before. The features of the game were the one-banded catch of a ball on first by F. Morris. and the superb pitching of M. Morris, who fanned nine men in the four innings he pitch ed. N. Buddin and M. Morris each secured a two.bagger. The teams play again soon. Battery for Turbevilie, I. Buddin, Woods, M. Morris. and C. Morris and Roberson; for Pudding Swamp, T. Coker, H. Coker. N. Buddin, W. Morris and R. Coker, C. Beard, S. Buddin. Umpire. T. Turbeville. Scorer, Johnston. - J. L. - was * onday to the bedsiae 01 in nephew, Mr. W. M. Wison, who has ty phoid fever, but is somewhat better. Miss Gibbs, of Lynchburg, visited at this place last week. Miss Lessie ~Philips spent Sun day at home in Lamar. Mr. W. J. Turbeville was in Manning last Wednesday on business. Mr. F. C. Cole spent last week in Manning where his arm is being treated. He is still un able to use it, although it has been broken sometime. A few of our folks enjoyed a fishfry at Hudson's mnill pond last Monday night. G. New Zion Dots. Editor The Manning Times Rev. L. L. Bedenbaugh and Mr. Jehu Smith spent last Sun day at Workman. Messrs. R. D. Clark and R. D. Clark of Manning were here last week looking at the tobacco crops. Messrs. Motley and Aros of Lake City have been visiting this section. According to the latest infor mation the rural free delivery route from this place will be ex tended to Workman making the route a little longer for the SERMON BY REV. A. R. WOODSON, Sunday, June 16, 1907. Text: -Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy." It has occurred to me that it would be very interesting and profitable for us to study to gether some of the Holy things of God. For the past three Sabbaths we have been talking about this Holy Book, the Holy Bible. On last Sabbath we .re ferred but incidentally to God's Holy Day, and by referring to it in that way some of you seem tc have become interested in it and so I have appointed today for the consideration of the Sab. bath-God's Holy Day. (;od's Holy Day: we don't doubt that this Book is God's Holy Book. and we don't doubt that C;od's name is holy, but we some way seem to act as though we doubt ed whether God's day is holy. I most earnestly declare unto you yu that God's day is just as holy as God's name and it is just as holy as God's book, and it is just as great a sin in God's sight for you to profane his day as it is to profane his name. Some of you yea, I trust all of you would hardly dare take the name of God in vain. But unfortunately the Christian church has lost much of its reverence for God's day. While I would not detract from the holiness of God's name, let us ever reverence that blessed name-but oh that I might say something today to persuade you to reverence' and honor God's day as you have not in the past. Our text is. -'Remember the Salbath Day to keep it holy. Exodus 20th chapter and -th verse: "Remember the Sabbath Day to keep it holy." The sacred Sabbath is one of the chief corner stone of the church. The sacred Sabbath is the chief corner stone of oui nation. It is one of the chiej corner stone of our homes. Nc home will be marked by a degree of piety where God's day is noi reverenced and honored. Nc nation can rightly be called a Christian nation that does no1 duly exalt God's Holy Day. It is a test of God's authority and he who does not recognize God's day aright does not regard God's authority as he ought. It is His day. He has set it apart for Himself and he who traiples this day under foot, in a sens< tramples under foot the Goi that made him. God hath es tablished this day as His and al nations that even in a forma way recognize Him as God, rec ognize His day and have thei Sabbath laws. Money and pleas ure are more and more becom ing tihe gods that we serve. Go pity us that we should let mone' or pleasure have a higher plac in our life than His day! "Re member the Sabbath Day t< keep it holy." Oh. the awfua Sabbath desecration of our so called Christian land! The da: that is called tile Holy Day i: more and more becoming a mer< holiday, until even members o the church who come to th< Communion Table and who hav< acknowledged the Lord JIesus Christ as their Lord will delib erately refuse to honor th< Lord's Day. Men will travel 01 the train on the Sabbath day they will read the secular new: papers On thle Sabbath day, they will do their own pleasure o1 the Sabbath day and forget ut terly for many hours of tha Day tile God who gives then life and the God who manifests his authority and our happiness bsetting apart this day. SomE one has said that the first yea1 after the Sabbath was set asidE in France the increase of pro fanity and immorality was ap paling. Within the first yea after the Sabbath was abrogated there wcre twenty thousand di vorces in France. Blackstonc has said, "The profanation 01 the Sabbath is always followed by a flood of inmmorality an~ iniquity." But what will sta) this awful flood of Sabbath des ecrationy The answer, the cure is but one: that tihe Christiax conscience be awakenec' unt< the reality of the enormity o: the sin of Sabbath desecration We don't like to call it sin, bul it is, and there ar'e few g'eate> sins that you can cornmait. IDishonor God's Day and yot. dishonor His name: dishonor i and you impede the progress o: Ciristian experience in you) own heart and your life is de prived of tile high privilege 0: witnessing for the Lord Jesum Christ. Dishonor His day, ani instead of making progress ir the Christian r-ace. you .vil: make no headway whatever Therefore, it must be a gross sin. And surely it is timle tha the Christian churches and th( Christian press should more ani more lift their voices against thE awful encroachment upon thE Sabbath Day in our land. God pits us if the Sabbath day is to be more and more desecrated! God pity us if the next generation will see a greater change in tile obser vance of the Sabbath Day thar the past generation has seen If such is to be the case. ther pull down your churches: lock~ them up and let them fall to thc ground. Then set up our idols and don't let's make a farce ol our religion ! There are three or four funda mental thoughts that we wan1 you to keep in mind. We mnusi hold to the divine authority oi tie Sabbath. The same God thlal said "Thou shalt not kill" said, "Remember the Sabbath Day tc keep it holy." The same God who said. "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain" said, Remember the Sab bath Day to keep it holy." Oh, let us ever keep in mind its sacrd character. There is noth ing more sacred, there is nothi ing more holy. there is nothing that has more of the impress of divine origin than God's Day. The fourth commandment is a part of the Decalogue. have we forgotten it? The entire day and not a part or it only belongs to God. The entire day is His. There are three things- the American peo)ple are doing witl the Sabbath. 1st. they are rob bing it of its divine authority. Second: they are secularizing it until the day that God designed for a blessing to all mankind is becoming the greatest curse to ten thousands of our people every week. And, third. the American peo.ple are fast chang ing one of heaven's best and sweetest gifts into that which they have so severely profaned and made unholy until vice, crime and sin stalk more boldly I on the Sabbath Day in many quarters of our earth than on any other day ot the week. Oh. bretheren. do you realize it?, You may say that so far as our town is concerned we have no Sabbath desecration. I grant that perhaps it is much better here than in many other places we might mention. Not to go beyond our own State, let us consider Charleston today. Some time this afternoon out yonder on that -beautiful island there will be a sacrilegious, sacred concert, and men will profane, and men will frolic the day away, and that is but a fair sample of many. yea all of our larger cit ies. And when we come nearer home, as never before Christian people. members of the church read the Sunday newspaper far more than they read the Bible, when no godly Christian man or Christian woman has any busi ness whatever with a Sunday newspaper in his or her hands on that Day; its God's Day and you have no right to do your own pleasure, and you have no right to secularize it by reading secu lar newspapers. Again, Christ ian men, members of the church, will get on the train on the Sab bath and plead as their excuse a business engagement. If you must meet that engagement on Monday then go on Saturday. The Sabbath is God's day. it be longs to him and you have nc right to use it for your own con ~venience and you have no right to make it a day of business oi of pleasure: its God's. This suggests to us the three divisions of our sermon today, which we will consider briefly. I. Its Divine Authority. II. It is a Holy Day. III. The Whole Day belongs to God. I. Its Divine Authority. We read in Genesis 2nd chapter and 2nd and 3rd verses as follows: -"And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had -made: and he rested on the sev enth clay from all his worls Iwhich he had made. And God -blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it; because that in i1 he had rested from all his work which God had created and Imade." Then we might turn tc Exodus 16:22-30 as to the Law of Manna, and many others, bul we won't take time to read thea 'ill, such as Duet. 5:11-15: Ex. :31: 12-17: Lev. 19: 3 and 30: Lev. 23: 1 :3: Neh. 13:15-22: Isa. 56: 1-7: Ezk. 20:12-21: Lev. 26:21; Jer. 7:19-27, ana so on. .lIn Ex. -16:22.30, we read how that when the manna camne down to feed -Israel, on the Sabbath day nc manna fell. In Ex. 20:8, which is our text, we read the Fourth Commandment. The Sabbath is a thousand years older than the Decalogue. The Sabbath day is a thousand years older than Moses. It is as old as creation itself. God did not rest on the Sabbath day because He was tired, but rested that He might give to all men an example of resting. And he did something else besides rest. He sanctified it: that means that he made it a holy day. It is not, therefore. a mere vagary or notion of mine, but God made it a holy day. Six days for work and doing youi own pleasure as long as it be tc the glory of God, but when wc come to the Sabbath day, it is God's day. Over fifty times in 1the Old Testament does God set His seal upon this day. Fifty times over He reminds His peo ple that it is His Day. We wil] observe in the New Testamen1 but four things pertaining to the -Sabbath. Jesus observed the Sabbath. On the occasions we have the record of his going intc the Synagogue on the Sabbath day, to worship God. The Apos tle Paul observed the Sabbath also. Then the question arises as to the change of the Sabbath from the seventh to the first day of the week. Jesus taught the change of the Sabbath and he taught how it must be observed; lie taught by example and by precept. Jesus taught two things that were allowed on the Sab bath which were not things strictly pertaining to worship. These were works of necessity and works of mercy. lie speaks of the ox in the ditch and the man leading his ass or his cattle to water. The first teaches us works of necessity and the see ond works of mercy. With r-ef erence to the change of the day --he arose on the first day of the week: On the first day of the week he met the disciples. On the first day of the week was the day of Pentecost. On the first dayv of the week was the time the Apostle Paul appointed as a day of wor-ship. On the first day of the week the same Apostle ap pointed as the time for the giv ing of their gifts. On the first dayof the week the Lord ap peared to St. John on the Isle of Patmos. There is not a sin gle reference throughout the en tire New Testamehlt period that can be found with reference to the Sabbath that they did not honor the first day of the week as the Sabbath after the resurec tion of. That must, therefore, sufli(iently establish the first day of the week as our Sabbath. and nineteen centuries have seen first day of week observed. Again, of all divine institu tions, none are more divine. It is the oldest, the most sacred institution in the world. A thous and years older than the Bible. A thousand years older than the Decalogue. The Sabbath was made for man. so Jesus an nounced, and in that broad, sweeping statement he included every man from Adamfluntil the last man that shall ever hve up on this earth. and he also includ ed the physical, the mental. the spiritual man. II. It is a holy day. It is a day that God made holy and a day that God designed to make us holy. He sanctified it, He said: "Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy," and if you are ever going to become a holy man or a holy woman (you will never get to heaven until you do). if you are to become holy, then I bid you in God's name re member the Sabbath day to keep it holy. Remember the day that He has particularly set apart for Himself that you might honor Him, that you might grow in grace and in knowledge of Him. A day in which you might grow in the likeness of God. It takes six days of honest labor ordin arily to support a man and there is no place for indolence in God's word: it says,. "Six days shalt thou labor." and let us be grate ful for our work on these six days but when the Sabbath comes lay aside your work: let your business be put far from you. Let your business and pleasures, so far as that day is concerned, be driven from your minds. It's God's day. Don't do your own pleasure. The day must not be secularized. The pious family cannot be found where the Sabbath day is not honored. No wonder there are so few ministers of the gospel going out from Christian homes, when there is so little of real piety in the Christian homes of today. I say it with shame, but it is true that genuine piety is on the decrease. There is less of it in every Christian commu nity that I know anything about than there was just a few years ago and the reason of it is, pri marily, that men have not re membered the Sabbath day to keep it holy. Over three million men and women on every Sab bath day are forced to work to satisfy man's greed and love of pleasure. The fact that you ride on the Sunday train, you that much force a man to labor, and three million men are robbed of their Sabbath day to gratify the avarice and pleasure of a so called Christian nation. III. The Sabbath is wholly the Lord's day, not just a part of it. Don't think you have done your duty when you have read a number of chapters of the Bible on the Sabbath day. Don't think you have done your entire duty when you go to church on that day. The whole day is the Lord's. Some one will argue, "If I read my Bible and attend to my religious duties, when I have done these things, then if I spend a few hours reading sec ular papers, it is all right." Lot me tell you on the authority of God's word, you have no right to spend any part of His day in any suc-h way. Find four reascons it is wrong to read Sunday newspapers. If you do not read the papers at all it is wrong for you to go to the postottice for your mail on God's day. When you go ther-e it is Ieither for business or- pleasure, both of which have no place in God's holy day. In the second place, if you take the paper home and read it you are secu larizing God's day and you are secularizing that which is holy in your own life. In the third place, your example. When you go to the p~ostotfice -and the pa per is in the home your children see you read it and ifit doesyvon no harm your example is not harmless. In the four-th phtee. when .you are reading that you are taking time when you ought to be reading something better, something that would contribute to your religious life. If you do not take time to cultivate your religious life on the Sabbath you will not do it any other day. If when fifty-two Sabbaths have rolled around you have not used them for the cultivation of your spiritual life when the end of the year comes you are no higher on heaven's highway than at the beginning of the year-, I pity you. Oh, don't neglect that day. Let your life be a witness for Christ. Men sometimes get the wrong idea of a witness. You witness for Christ when men know that you don't read the Sunday newspaper; when they know that so far as you are con cerned your mail box remains locked on the Sabbath day. Oh, Brother, witness for Christ. Ah. the world today needs witnesses very bad. Best way to witness against intemperance is to be temeraebest way to witness aantgambling is not to gamble, best way for witnessing for- Christ against card playing and dancing is by abstaining from so-called innocent amuse ments. These things rob you of spiritual things. Witness for Christ by letting your testimony be against the things which are not godly. The whole day be longs to God. If you take any part of it for yourself your'e stealing from God and it is as great a sin in God's sight as did - TTX4T At this season of the year, after the Spring trade is all over, we always make an effort to close out all our Summer Stock at reduced prices for the cash. So we will open our Big Summer Sale on I Monday, July 1st 1,000 yards nice figured Lawns that we have good to see our line of Ladie's Ready-trimmed Hats been selling at 6c. and 7c. the yard, will go at 5c. yd. that we have been getting $1.50 for that we will put in this sale at $1. and $1.25. Better grades of Hats, 1.000 yards fine figured Lawns, 27 inches wide, all closed out in like proportion. that have been selling at 8 1-8c., will now go at 0 1-4c. the yard. We have a large lot of American made Sanitary Matting that looks better and wears longer than 2,000 yards White Madrass, i carpet that will cost you double the money. We will from 15c. to 20c. the yard, will close out at 12 1-2c. put this Matting on sale at 37 1-2c. for the cash. the yard. Regular price 50c. Also a large lot of other Mat 1.000 White Lawn Remnants, 2 to 5 yards, 36 tings from 20c. to 35c. the yard. inches wide, that you cannot buy the same quality We have on hand about 100 to 150 Suits of Men's in a regular way for less than 18c. to 20c. the yard. and Boy's Spring Suits that we are very anxious to this lot will got in this sale for cash at1-3c. and10c close out for the cash. If you need a nice suit here One lot White Linen Suitings that we have been is the place to get it. selling at 12 1-2c. the yard, will go at 10c. the yard. About 500 pair of Boy's Knee Pants that we will One lot of White Linen Suitings that we have put in this sale for the cash at 25c., 35c., 50c. and been selling at 15c. and 20c. the yard, will close out 65c. each. If you want a bargain in Knee Pads at 12 1-2c. And all of our entire line of Line of here is your chance. Suitings will be closed at special prices. We will out on special sale our entire line. o We have had a very successful year in our Mil. Gent's Negligee Shirts. If you want a nice shirt linery Department and we are now anxious to close cheap here is your chance. out the remainder of our Spring and Summer Stock 100 Dozed Linen nice Collars at rc. each. of Millinery at reduced prices. So ladies here it goes if you want a nice Hat very cheap come to our Big 200 Dozen of the famous H. C. Curtis Collars Hat Sale and we will please you. We want to clear that we will let go during this sale at 11c. Think everything out in our Millinery Line. It will do you of a regular regular 15c. collat to 'go for 11c. Our entire Line of Furniture and House Furnishing 6oods will go on sale for the cash. IJMINSONCS. Inner layer. You cannot play 15.000 pieces on the ordinarp Piano. No one ev'er had command of such a repertorie.. A lfe time of study and practice has enabled the great ar tists to play at their best less than 100 pieces. Notice what we said on the ordinary Piano. TheInnr Player.* places at your command any comnposisition ever written. You can play opera, sacred, classical music or rag-time-any kind piece-at once, without study or without practice-on the Inner Player. And you can play as well as the experienced piano' has studied and wor-ked for years to master a [few pieces. We wlll demonstrate the splendid musical possibilties that the Inner opens to you if you will call at our warerooms. If you have a piano we will take it in exchange. Balance can be paid in mont stallmients. THE CBECOMPANY~ Everything Known in Music. J. V. WALLACE, Manager, Cable Basiir, O HARTJE$TDON, S. C.