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Just Received LARGE SHIPMENT OF SPRING SUITS FROM? Hart-Sclialfner & Marx Among Them Are a Lot of the New Style Models CAMDEN CLOTHING CO. Hermitage Community News. Camden, S. C., Feb. 5, ? -On Inst Saturday evening, February 2nd, the Junior Club girls entertained their parents at a ^ypper at the Community House. Mr. G. A. Barnes was dressecT to represent a poli'eeman, and as the guests entered they were arrested by him and placed under bond. After suppci the bonds were sold, whieh af forded much fun. Other games were played, in which Mr. Spain Shirley and Mrs. Lominac won prizes for pin ning the donkey's tail on. Mr. S. L. Crolley and brothers, Curtis and J. P., motored to Colum bia Sunday and spent the day. Mr* B. B. Trull was called to Char lotte several days ago on account of the illness of his father. Mrs. J. A. Crolley and sister, Mrs. McLendon, are visiting relatives in Darlington and Dillon. We are glad to report that Mrs. Maggie Marshall is much improved, and will 1m? brought from the hospital to her home this week. Mrs. J. ft. Player and children have been visiting with relatives at Fort Mill, S. C.. Mr. C. H. Zemp of the office force motored to Charlotte Saturday and spent the week end. . We are very glad indeed to report much improvement in the several cases of influenza in our community. Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Lewis motored to Winnsboro Sunday and spent the day. Kershaw County Teachers' Meeting. (Colored. ) The attention of the teachers is called to the monthly meeting of our county association. Tho date being February ltfth. Place: Jackson, School building. Time, 12 o'clock. This is the last meeting before we go to the meeting of our State Association, which will be held in Columbia, Marcta l.'l, 11, 15. Each teacher knows his or her duty and we are sure they will not refuse to respond thereto. We will also complete our plans for our Field Day Exercises. Remember the date, February 10th. P. B. M'dodana, President. E. F. McLester, Co. Supv'r. Eunice Carrel, Secretary. WHY I BECAME A CHRISTIAN. (Continued from page six ) Biblical times. I have always believed in prayrr because I have had so many prayers answered. I have never seen or heard any good rason, auy sound argument, for disbelieving the Bible. I have long believed in Cod. Several times I have boon saved from death when I lay ?helpless, alone, far from home and loved ones. 1 agree with Judge El bert H. Gary, chairman of the United States Steel Corporation, that it is just common sense to believe in the Christian religion. However, believing ns I did in the world hereafter, in prayer and in the existence of Cod, I did not believe that public confession of faith and mem bership in the church were necessary or desirable. I felt that sll that was required was to believe in God and do as much good as possible. Yet believing that did not change my life. When I was a reporter on a Richmond a?jw.>y??per A went one Afternoon to go* a story from the Rev. Pr, W. C. antes, then pastor of a local church, bvum of the Southern Baptist Con i?v.?>n. When he found that I was itoia church member, he inquired why, g??>?. h?m my reasons and we had a iong, friendly discussion. Finally, I put Una question to him: ' Upctor, do you mean to nay that, with my beliefs uui *? ? they are, 1 am going to hell ,i i uo not join the church?" He an swered: "No, 1 could not take the re sponsibility of saying that, but I do ?.ell you that, if you are going to cross a tempestuous, dangerous ocean, it. is much better for you to* go on h large steamer With many others than to try to go it alone in a rowboat." That, I think, is the logic and the com mon sense of joining the church, For aeveral months tefore Dr. George W. Tiuett, of Dallas, Tex.f came to Gteenville last winter to hold a meeting, I began to lead a better life. I do not kno-w why I did it, un less the hand of God was laid upon mo, 1 preparing me -?or what was to follow. I determined to go ' outside the line of my duty and report Doctor Truett's sormons. I carried out that resolve. The sort of Gospel he preached impressed me as none other had. He mentioned ? hell once in 21 sermons. Ho 'preached a religion of reasonableness, sanity, service and love. ' To me his most convincing appeal was that which dealt with the power of unconscious influence, This is what ho said: "One waits for another and one acts becauso of another, or one does not act becauso another does not. You can no more be separated from your influence over others than you can separate yourself from your shadow as you walk in tbo glowing sun. Y ou and I are dally helping people upward by our personal influ ence or daily we are dragging them down by our same personal influence. W'j human being hss the *^nrnl r i wH t. to occupy a position anywhere, in the occupancy of which position he may hurt somebody elao. A man's uncon scious influence has the largest power of all ? a man's unconscious influence ? the influence he does not know any thing about. It is that unconscious influence that often gets in its dead liest and most undoing work over others. The man who does not care about his influence over somebody else surely must be a fool or a mon ster, or both. By our silent influence, day in and day out, we are taking people up with us, or taking them down with us." I have had several striking experi ences of the truth of that statement. Here is just one: The same after I connected myself with the church a man who was '? then and is yet a stranger lo me, although he knew me, sought out Doctor Truett and told him that he had been so influenced by whaf I had done thatf he felt that he must at once do likewise. Such have been my experiences in this very connection that^that if 1 had no other reason, I dare not turn aside from the path I have chosen. My main objection to^joining the church I overcame by plain reason. My principal excuse for not ullying myself with the church was that I had observed some church members who were crooks, slanderers, mollycoddles, hypocrites, or doleful, long-faced hu man icebergs with whom I did not wish to asociate. Yet, When I reasoned with myself about it, I realized that there were just as many, probably more, people' of that sort in other organizations to which I belong. 1 asked myself: "Why not be fair about it? Why discriminate against the church? Why should I refuse to live the Christian life just because some body else is not living it as it ought to.be lived?" It is said that the really inconsist ent church members, especially the holier-than-you type, do more damage to the church than the atheists and the agnostics. As one fully famiiar with the im pression some church people, make on people outside of the church, may I be permitted to say this? What hurts the Christian religion most, in Tny opinion, is that too many church members consider it as they do their Sunday clothes, to he worn only on Sunday and not every day. "If Chris tian men and women are tfoing to be more careful and conscientious at one! place than another, then out in the market in the shops and facto ries, in the court house, in the busy markets of trade, in the circles where men constantly touch elbows with the world, let thorn see to it that they are the ri^'ht kind of Christians. If they are going to make a difference anywhere, let the better way have preeminence out there, as they touch elbows with the world." Furthermore, if we would be Chris tians in deed as well as in faith, we mqst have more of the compassion, the fcrotherliness, the deep human sympathy which had their sublimest expression, in the life of the Man of Gallilee. "If anjLmfcn be overtaken in * fault," what are vW? to do? Criticize ;fmf< Denounce him? Throw stone*, 'it him? Gossip about htm? Not.at al); 4JJt any man be overtaken in a fault , Who sv.u apiritmil restore such H ur in the spirit of meekness, consjft urlng thyself, lost thou be tempted." Wo are here to help people, to pu?l( *hem up, nut to drag them down. W< an hejp thorn by living the right kind of lifo ourselves. The finest con ribution we can make to this com' munity and to this world is to oife' it tho right kind of life. Ah Clml 'atone, tho great English statesman, said: "One example is worth a thou? I sand arguments." We are not to spy on people or to pry into their weak nesses. We are to make it a point to encourage people, and to believe in people, and to see th$ best in them What a noble sentence is this from Isaiah: "They helped every one his neighbor, and every one said, to his brother, "Be of good courage!" ' Going back to the relation of my own experience, I decided to join the church. It was the most deliberate act of my Vife. I chose the time and place where I thought my example would do the most good ? and that was in a great mass meeting of men. 1 was not swept off my feet. I had heard many of the great preachers and evangelists of my time. The ap peal that won me was not to my emo tions but to my reason and judg ment. Although I decided to join, I did, not believ.e in tho reality of what id called Christian experience. I thought it was auto-suggestion, self-hypno tism, or just imagination. However, I submitted myself to the experiment, and soon I felt as one who has pass ed through tho night and has come into the radiance of the morning light. Soon I was Aware of a wonder ful exaltation o?~spirit. I foil that, somehow, I had been lifted up. Wor ries which had long harassed me left me. Secret resentments that I had) ?r? v? ?? icU/?/l T) n rJ V* ? K I it3 left mc. 1 felt a new interest and a new hope in life.. I feel more faith, courpge, optimism, a stronger irii pulse to do better work, more love for my fellowmen. For years I had walk ed in the valley of- despair and hope lessness, parted forever in this world from those I loved the best, yet now I feel that somewhere, some time, all will he well, and that, if I give the best I have in this world, the best will be given to me in that far country where there is no sorrow. I found that my course in connecting myself with the church was the most popular thing I had ever done in my life. Many men, who, I supposed, cared nothing about me, went out of their way to commend me for what I had done. One of them was one of the busiest men in the State, a foremost factor in the textile industry, and I shall never forget one thing he said to me: "Our mothers were right about this. The Christian religion is true." . Now that I am in the church, I can not see that it is necessary or desira ble to be a longfaced, austere, severe follower of one who never preached a gospel of gloom and cheqrlessness. T do not feel any better than anybody else? I feel simply that I- am better than my old self. I concur in the humble poet: "Let me live in my house by the side of the road, Where the race of men go by. The men who arc good and the men who are bad, As good and as bad as 1. I would not sit in the scorner's seat, Nor hurl cynic's ban; I/Ct me live in a house by the side of the road And be a friend to man." I can say truthfully that religion has not taken any of the joy out of my life. If I have suffered loss of the esteem of any of my friends and ac quaintances, I am unaware of it. Assuredly I know a peace and con tentment such as I never knew before. 1 would not be just, I would not be true, if I <1 id not say that more pow erful to persuade me to become a Christian man than all the evange lists, all the arguments and sermons, I have ever heard, has been the exam ple of the noblest and greatest person ality I have ever known or ever shall know upon this earth, my Christian mother. Her life had many crushing, sorrows, yet she never faltered. Like the Master she followed, she went about doing good all her life. When the twilight shadows wero gathering about her, she formed a little mission band of aged women like herself to serve the Master. Five years ago i wn? suddenly sum moned to her deathbed. I could say little to her. Yet, as I held her hand and looked at her for the last time on this earth, there came over mc an in dcscfibablo thrill and something seem ed to tell me: "This* is not good-bye: you will see her again." A little while afterward I went out into her old fashioned flower garden ? she loved flowers and said to mc not many months before she died, "I don't know what I would have done if the food Lord hadn't given me flowers." In the garden was a aim dial on whi<jh waa ??t a sentence from one of Browning's v'. > ? *?\? ? ? li- : "? v-*: .'?? V.;:* ? a. . . . A New Ford Steel Track Bddy . ' . * ? ? ? 1 ' - . 'i The Ford Motor . Company announces the production ol a new all-steel body , and steel weather-proof cab, mounted on the famous Ford one-ton worm drive chassis, forming a complete haulage unit at the reniarkably law price of $490. Steel flare boards and end gate with sockets permit the use of stakes and higti aide board* or the mounting of * canopy top* making the body readily adaptable for general use. Screen aides and end doors may easily be installed. This new body, built of heavy sheet steel strongly reinforced and riveted, is designed to stand up under the most severe usage. Loading space fa lour feet by seven ' Jeet two inches. The weather-proof cab it fitted with removable, tloo r-opeuing curtain* Tkit Cm ?mw tn obtained through th # Authorized Ford Dealers ' * ' \ *< ?fe mf 'wm a-gaggHH s poems: "Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be." That seemed to me a message from on high. I then hoped and believed that I should see her once more. When I took her God as mine, too I have no doubt {hat, though I could not see her, she stood beside me smiling. Serene and secure n the faith that guided her, I lib longer hope, I no longer believe, that I shall see her again, for now I kfiow that I shall be with her once more. In short, my observation, study and experience convince me beyond the? shadow of a doubt as to the truth of the Christian religion. I am as sure'"! an that tomorrow the day ' hr^ak and the shadows lice ti With all my mind and heart 'I d? Iieve that the faith of our fathmi mothers ? "the good, old-time Hi ion"? is, and is alone, "the mj; tnlth and the life."? Caroliiu { ie n, Spartanburg. Poles, Wire and Apparatus ? Added by the Carload A vpnTwfv m^terial which were also adcted during ~ copper wire. carloads of caWe and one carload of demaiufpH^nit i^e ex^?nsl?f\8 meet the growth which teleDhono wrJt qVanH P?les? wire and cable, the - stallation i-ecorda lMt?ylar previ?^R COn8tructioTi and in- ^ tion'alSinvMtmonfe<iFipment ?"d work represented an addi ?mH L? "estment ?f more than 2629,000. T Most of it was future of th/^r^ f lx>? investors who have faith in the riiture of the telephone industry in this state yon^o^S0^?^ ^^ertakinx depends largely, upon y ur continued friendly interest and encouragement. MORGAN B. St-EIR, Ciirollitei Manager "Beg. 8y?tem y. SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY ? ??# mil dlfctmd tmammrd f?||?r ?