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Page twelve THE CUKTON ^nwa* mm SHIELD EXPERT HERE t 'MEINHARDI. WELL KNOWN IN THIS SPECIALTY, CALLED TO GREENVILLE. E. J. Meinhardi, the well known Expert from Chicago, will personally be at the Imperial Hotel, Greenville, S. C., on Thursday only, April 24. Mr. Meinhardi says “The Vacuum Rupture Shield” will not only, hold the Rupture perfectly, but will con tract the opening in ten days on the average case—usually giving instan taneous relief withstanding all strain regardless of the size and location of the Rupture. This instrument is highly indorsed for producing results in the United States and foreign countries without the use of surgery, medical treatment, prescriptions or injections. Caution: Ruptured persons should beware of old-style trusses with un der-straps. These trusses usually placa the pad on the lump and not on the rupture opening. This often causes serious trouble resulting in strangulation and necessitating a surgical operation. Mr. Meinhardi will be glad to demonstrate • free to all who call at the hotel from 10 a. in. to 4 p. m. t the usually rapid results produced by “IVie Vacuum Shield.” The largest and most diffi cult cases are especially desired. Only gentlemen are invited to call on the above date as a special visit will be made here at a later date for women and children. Notice: Do not write asking to be fitted by mail as this is impossible. Every case must be seen personally. If interested you must call at this hotel on the above date. Business demands prevent stopping at any other place in this section. (glorfotta (Soapel of Easter Sag By Reo. Stephen Paulson ‘ tnGrtf CITATION FOR LETTERS ADMIN ISTRATION The State of South Carolina, County of Laurens. By O. G. Thompson, Probate Judge: WHEREAS Sallie R. Pitts and J. G. Pitts made suit ^o me to grant them Letters of Administration of the Estate and effects of P. M. Pitts. THESE ARE THEREFORE, to cite and admonish all and singular the Kindred and Creditors of the said P. M. Pitts deceased, that they be and appear before me, in the Court of Probate, to be held at Laurens Court House, Laurens, S. C., on Wednesday the 23rd day of April 1924 next, after publication hereof, at 11 o’clock in the forenoon, to show cause, if any they have, why the said Administra tion shotild not be granted. GIVElf under my hand this 7th day of April Anno Domini 1924. O. G. THOMPSON [Seal] J. P. L. CL nmiviD iiMroui rnuunona | SimdaySdiool (By RBV. P. B. PITZWATBR. D.D.. TMohw of BnglUh BlbU ta the Uoo4y Bib>« UmK- tut* of Chicago.) . <®. 1»1«. Wwtvra N«w«p*p«r Unto a.) And when the Sabbath was past. Mary Macdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Balome, had brought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint Him. ^ . Te seek Jesus of Nazareth, which was crucified: He ie risen; He is not here: Behold the place where they laid Him.—Mark 16:1. 8. HE Sabbath came and went over the grave of Its Lord. Silence reigned In Joseph’s garden, broken only by the mailed sentinels who chat ted and laughed by the sealed sepulcher. We do not know what (lie disciples did ou the Sabbath day. Probably they speii^Jthe day In close retirement In some upper room. Their thoughts were nailed to that Cross on Calvary, and their spirits were under the heavy pall of that trag edy of Good Friday. We can never understand the utter misery and desolation of those hours between Christ's death and His Resur rection. Our faith rests on the cen turies'; and when we read of the Cru cifixion we have in mind the glory of Easter morning. But to the,disciples, all their hopes bad l>een shattered, all their plans frustrated, and all their love buried in Joseph’s tomb. A resur rection did not enter into their thought* at all, and therefore their testimony is the more valuable. True, they had heard Jesus say that He would rise again, but they had inter preted that in a sort of future and symbolic sense. Before dawn, the women mentioned in our text, perhaps with some others, started for the sepulcher bearing their spices and ointments with which they expected to finish the embalming of the blessed body of their Lord. A resurrection had no place in their thoughts. They came to minister to the dead, not to greet the living. Their one great concern was: Who would help them to roll away the atone which sealed the tomb, and which was too great for their united strength? As they draw near they see that the stone is rolled away, and so little did they think of a resurrection, that the open tomb brought them only perplexity and gGet The Gospels were no^ written for the curious, but for the devout. They are most silent therefore, where myth and legend would be Btdst garrulous. Here we are told nothing of the wondrous Reeurrectlon. Did He awake alone? Or was Re attended by the helrarchy of heaven? We are told only what concerns mankind, viz., the sufficient manifestation of Jesus to His people of His Resurrection. We can reconstruct something of the events of that first Easter jpomlng from the Gospel accounts. First the women come and find the tomb empty. Mary Magdalene immediately run!. hack to the city and telle Peter and John about it. They rush out to the garden of Joseph, John, the younger man, taking the lead. The women have left. Peter enters the tomb and see* the Mnen clothes which hud cov ered the body- of Jesus, and there begins to dawn upon them 8«xuoihlng of the meaning of the words of Jesus, “On the third day I shall rise again/' Mary comes back and Peter and John-have gone, and no one Is there to explain what has taken place; so she stands by the sepulcher and pours out her distress in teurs. N<Av comes the first revelation of the risen Ghrist. “Mary,” He eays, l». the well-knowm voice of love and ten derness. and in a moment all her sor row Is furred into Joy. It is always sp when the risen Christ comes into a life. The living Christ is the world’s great Joy-bringer. Without Him, our thoughts can- only he thoughts of death. With Him we enter Into the conception of thg, larger life, of which tWs Is only the outer court. , * Life! Death! They seem to be the very antipodes of thought. We have come to look upon them as mutually exclusive, but Jesus hag taught us that out of life death Is to arise. The Resurrection of Jesus is the ' anchor of our Christian faith. W e live , in a day wlien men seek positive j grounds of thought and action, and the euduring power of the Resurrection is not a sentiment but a £acL A senti ment has Its day. Phases ot mere feeling pass rapidly over the genera tions of men, like clouds ovbt our heads, but the fact, of the Risen Christ remains. In the strength of that cen tainty Paul went fora to his great missionary labors. In the strength of that, Peter went unafraid to hit own crucifixion. In the strength of that, the soldiers ot Christ tn all ages have stood fast in the falth^ quit themselves like men, and endured unto the end. The Easter Gospel is the Gospel of all comfort. “If Christ be not risen then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain." So says St. Paul, .and then comes his trlfmphal a^out of certainty: “But now is Christ rlsso from the dead, and become the first- frluts of them that slept!” That is the Gospel of comfort which this world of sorrow and death needs so much. That is the glad and glorious Gospel ot Easter Day. Today we seek, not • dead. Christ, but t Hvlnf one, andithen, may It soon be our bliss to s«h tbs Risen Saylor face to face, as did Mary on that very first Raster morning. Lesson for April 20 ELISHA: TEACHER MAN AND STATE* LESSON TEXT—II Kings 8:15-23. GOLDEN TEXT—“Be not overcoms of evil, but overcome evil with Good.” —Rom. 12:11. PRIMARY TOPIC—God Caring for Bliaha. JUNIOR TOPIC—Elisha’s Goodness to His Enemies. INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOP IC—How to Turn Enemies Into Friends. YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOP-. 1C—What Elisha Meant to His Nation. I. Elisha, Elijah's Successor (I Kings 19:15-21; II Kings 2:2-15.) 1. His Anointing (I Kings 10:15-21). In obedience to the Lord’s command, Elijah went forth from his hiding place in Horeb to anoint Elisha as prophet While Elisha was plowing with oxen Elijah passed by and cast his mantle upon him. ♦ 2. His Training (II Kings 2:2-8). Elisha came Into the life of Elijah ln the field, where he called him forth from the plow, and there w^u* fortb real friendship between them, such that Elisha clung to his master to the very last, In spite of three urgent requests for him to remain behind. 3. Elisha’s Double Portion (II Kings 2:12-15). (1) Elisha’s cry (v. 12). “The chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof.** This Implies that Elijah was the true national defense. (2) Elisha takes his place (▼. 18). The taking of Elijah’s mantle indicates bis assumption of his place as a prophet. (8) Elijah’s spirit upon Elisha (tv. 14, 15). This is proven by the use of his power to divide the Jordan. Also it Is proven by the testimony of the sous of the prophets. II. Elisha's Ministry (II Kings 8:10). L The trenches Filled With Water (Ohap. 8:10-20). Jeboram, in alliance with the king of Judah, went against the Moabites. His army was in great straits for lack of water. When they appealed to BUsha, he bade them show tlialr faith by digging trenches in des ert soO. The Lord sent water to fill the trenches. * 2. Increase of the Widow’s OH (Chap. 4:1-7). This woman’s husband had died, leaving a debt, and the cred itor was about to make bondiqen'of her two sons. Elisha caused the scant supply of the widow's oil to be so in creased that she sold enough to pay the debt 8. The Shunamite’a Son Restored (Chap. 4:8-87). Because of hospitality shown Elisha, he sought to help his hostess by promising that the Lord would give her a child. The Joy bronght by tha fulfillment of the prophet’s announcement was short lived, for while yet bat a lad he was taken away by death. In her sorrow she went to Elisha and he restored the child’s life. 4. Heals Deadly Pottage (Chap. 4: 38-41). In time of fhmlne they made a vegetable soup froth whatever grow ing plants they could find. By mistake a poisonous plant had been gathered. By putting meal into the pot, the soup was made healthful. 5. Fed One Hundred Men (Chap 4: 42-44). To the astonishment of his at tendant, he fed-ace hundred men with twenty barley cdlres and a sack of un cooked grain. & He Healed ^ T aaman, the Leper (Chap. fi:l*19)- At the instance of a captive Jewish maid, Kaaman, the great Syrian general, was brought Into touch with Elisha. Without* even coming to see Naaman Elisha, through his servant, bade him dip seven times In the Jordan. He obeyed and was In stantly healed. 7. Recovers the Lost Axe (Chap. 0 :l-7). Whll^the sons of the prophets were cutting timber to enlarge their quarters, the head of a borrowed axe flew from the handle and was lost In the mnddy waters. When shown the place Elisha cast a stick into the wa ter and the axe floated to the sur face. III. Elisha’s Heavenly Defenders (U Kings 6:8-28). This shows the secret of Elisha's power. 1. The tartan King Sorely Troubled (vv. 8-12K The, king directing war fare against Israel. He located camps so as to Intercept Israel’s army. Through Elisha God made known the enemy’s movements (v. 9). 2. The Syrian King Tries to Trap Elisha, but, though surrounded by the Syrian army, a mightier host of heav enly defenders were round about him. 8. The Syrian Army Trapped. Elisha led the Syriah army into Samaria. He ordered that they shoal* be fed and gent back He Cemqt to Sfure Sinners When a pronataent man dies, we are anxious to get his last words and acta The last act of •ere a sinner, tfery of His His ministry b; toded it e Son of God was to at was a part of the th. He commenced saving tinners, and this poor thief.— Inexcusable people will excuse anything thaa am - THREE PIECES ONLY $150.00 O • ’ . *- v -' * . This is a very special price for so handsome and well-made suite. . The frame is strong and heavy-upholstered in a beau tiful pattern of very fine quality silk finish tapestry, over the celebrated Nachman Springs in cushions, backs and arms. Why not let this wonderful suite grace your home. 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