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7 I T f z .• ... , ■ -v 'T Thursday, april 9th, i92.>. THE BARNWELL PEOPLE, BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA. X PAGE THREE. ■(PROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL Sunday School 1 • Lesson f <Uy KKV. P. n P1TZWATKR, I> l> Dflaa of ih* Evcnini; School, Moudy Bibla In- Btituto Of ChicMgO ) <<c'. IM25, \\>Ntern Nawnp^ier I'lfion.) the Lesson for April 12 CRIPPLE AT THE BEAUTI FUL GATE !l LESSON text—Acts 3. GOLDEN TEXT—‘T am tli«* Lord that i healelh thof."—E*. 15:26. PH IMA ILY TOl’lC—-Tit*? Story of a Lam** Rian. l'( >I’1C—The Care of a Crlp- 1NTEILM EDI ATE AND SENKlU TOP- •G—Ear*' of a ('ripple and Its IR-snlts. young people and adult t<»p- ic—The Church s Ministry to Body uud Soul. lix* indicnlionv a re tliat some months had elapsed vji,,.,? Pentecost. The believers were being tHUfchl i»y the apostles wlio were simwing "their ere- dentials l.y their mightv works (Acts 1! :4‘5). The Free Traders •By. Uictor Rousseau WNU SERVICE by W. ti. Chapman. ^ '.vri^H CHAPTER X ~ The Tunnel Under the Rock Lee sttiinliled out of the cabin, dflzed, siupeftod by .loyee's revelation. The man lie smiglir stood, an in\ in- cihle tiarfier, i)**t'^e( , n himself and tha • ■ The Lame Man Healed (v. 1-11). 'voman he loved. Never, if he hnd any 1. 'I'he t lecasion (v. 1). Peter and John Mere going to the house of worship. They were friends *ho mere mutual complements -each having that which the other lacked. This fellowship was according to the Lords own urrangmenf ami was most tilting. They were going up to Jeru salem to worship, though they knew full well Ihe corruption of Judaism. 2. The Place (\. •_>). It Was tit-the gale which leads from the outer to the Inner .court of the temple. Ii ua* called henuiiful be- an.se ot its magnificent bronze doors. I his man was placed at the entrance to lli** place of wnn*hip because when a man comes closvst to Hod he also conies closest to his fellow men. T 'Ihe Man (vv. I?JD This beggar was infirm from ids tditii. He.was a familiar, figure, known by ttie people for years. When’ lie saw Peter and John he asked alms. -1. The Method (\ v. 4 s). (II Gained the Mans Attention (v. 4). . Peter and John commanded him to look on them. The sinnei's atten- •ion niust lit* secured before t’lirist can heal him. Having secured Ids at- ’ention they gave him more tTian hi asked or e\p. :-rid. He ask, d for money ami got I eating. (J> Peter •'ommanded Him in the Name of Jesus t 'hrist of Nazareth to rise up and walk (v. (5). Tliis was ihe very thing he was .unable to do for s,> -■mahy y»*ars. Mas hot ibis mocking Ids very impotemy? Np! No! for it was in the luimi of Jesus. Willi the com mand w cut the ability to do. (d) Peter Took Him by (be Light Ham! (v. ■). 'I'lds act was meant (,» give impetus t*» bis faith, not strength to Ids ankles f>. The Man's Response (v. S). Strength came to his teet and aiikle bones at once. He st^od ; he walked; he leaped and sh Hited praises t*>'God. He thoroiighly advertised the miracle. H*> ascribed the honor to (bid for Ids healing, and walked into the house of (bid. <>. Tin* Effect (v v. P 1 !), 1 he peopl**'w (*rc filed with wonder and ama/emeut. The imiltilii h* ran togetiicr to see this remafkabh* thing. I here was lp> ijuestmu as" to ihe _cnu- tnness the m raclc for i.his man bad b**t*n a familiar figure for many year'. It was evident that something supernatural had occurred. (1) I’he helpless beggar had to be carried to ;be temple gate. 'Men anil women out of ('hrist an* spiritually helpless-. We should bring sin,nets to ' 'hris!. (L!) Taking him by tin* hand shows the manner of Christian help. Minis ters of ('hrist may not have silver or gold, but have something inlinitcly het- fer to give. II. Peter Witnessed of Jesus Before the Multitude (vv. TJL’d). TlbVthniraVle foctjsed the attention *>f tin* people upo i Paler and John. Peter immediately tiiriied timir atlen- tioti from himself to ('hrist. Peter weized ilu* oppemmity to present Christ to the people who had ttssem- blcd. He told th**m that it was by faith in Jesus Christ whom tin* God of their fathers had glorified, vv horn they had delivered tip and denied ( before Pilate when he desired to set Him free, and had desired a murderer to be granted to them instead. 1 le showed that the disciples were also witnesses thiit God had raised Jesus front the dead, and charged home upon them thelri awful guilt; for they had denied (hi* Holy one and chosen Rarahhas. a murderer, instead of Christ, and even kWled the Prince of Life. Despite t?i**ir crime he appealed to them to re pent (v. I’d). Since they had commit* ted' fhis awful crime In ignorance, God would pardon their sin If they would repent, and/Tye assured them that they should yet enjoy refreshing seasons from the I.ord when (bid would send hack Jesus Christ to earth to consnnt* mate the work of redemption. power to read tin* human heart, could Joyce Polly look on him again with anything but hate and horror. Beneath her gentle nature.there lay, he knew, it sold of steel, calm and re solved. I le could now look upon her only as i?Telentless enemy as long as her father lived. His little spell of happiness was ended forever. | An*! he groaned a> lie strode through ! the blasts, ami beat his lists into the ; whirling snow. Then to the man there came temp tation fiercer than any he had known as he perceived the on** way out, the only way. It was only necessary to find Polly, to warn him out of tin* district for ever. to return to Mahistree. making a report that Polly was dead, in order to win Joyce, taking her away with him, earning her gratitude, her love— yTftit would Mie love him then? Gould (heir happiness tie based on that disl >norV Perhaps he could win her. And * • r V' then? Itesign from the police, of course, and hear the burden of the shame for Ihe rest of bis days, read-. Ing it in Joyce's eyes, their children reading it in ihefr parents' eyes. . No. even that was not possible. There Mas no escape for him. 1 And he thanked (b>d that he did not have to weigh those. possibilities, though he would never have yielded. I’l.r stronger even than conscience was the thought of the •*^rce he was so proud to serve. c Those dauntless guardians of the law had emlifred the Icy Idas!s of the trts'lcss tundras, they had looked un flinchingly it to the fiict* of. death, death by Violence, by cold, by hunger, and on the battlefield; It was'all part r.f the game whether one faced a moral enemv or a pliysj.al one. Kven in tl ought thm* could be no tempering with dishonor. And it vv;;s only for a moment that. Lee weighed tlies** posslMlities as he strode tbroilgh .the. stonm Theft he sipmit d bis >|iott 1 dc "s resolutely ami threw off the burden. He would tala* Joy* e to lb* 1 Miirnyian mission as he had planned, then* band her over to- Mic priest, and leave her to go to Ids task, the apprelpmsion of her father. The Morin was growing fierier. Lee, awakening t<> tin* realizath n of externals as ihe icy Makes whipped his face, discovered that he had b ft the clearing -far behind him; In* could no longer 'Ijseern the ctildn in tli** dis-, tame Giroug'i tie* wl .rling snow He had been traveling 1 across tin* ridges of the broken ground, .apparently of jejmeMviUTovv-* e^perceived that unc'nsciousiv for the shelter ! Your Conscience Remember this: that your con science is not a law—no; God and reason made the law, and He placed tonkin of the friendly forest behind it. with tin* instinct of a wounded hcnM to Take cov er.. Well, lie must go back, and fhev two must face that nmht Ingot In i\ and flit* next day. ’i'iiett* was n<> help, for it. As III* strode on. SllddelV 1 inJLnef pulled him. tip -liarply. He bad bi'en ~ tramplingfthl'ough. a mass of withered undergrowth and bramble: and now, j directly in front of him. he perceived a j great gorge, so eiujeealed in tliis \ growth that be had all hut stepped i ov or t lit* edge f - He advanced caulioTTsly and peered | down into it. It was an extraortlinary ! formal i/u. Ht* hatl seen such before, | in th«f >antl other regions, where Hie | llmcstorte, imshetl tip throtigh molten granite by volcanic action at some pre historic time, end !h»*n abraded by rain nr torrent, left strange hollows and gullies. But he h ad never seen one «p snch a scale as this. was looking into a nattirn! fis sure In the ground, n long, irregular, winding chasm, extending Indefinitely into tiie distance, hut so narrow as to be merely a lip or eniVk iu the rugged surface of the ground. It had not been worn by rains or water; It was too deep for that. Brob- ahly the limestone, thrust up originally , ttow the earth’s inner c*tre. hatl been j sucked dowfi again In some final con- i vulsion, while the granite was still half molten, leaving the grantte ihell abotit (he chasm. Ami'in spite of its depth the chasm was so narrow that It almost looked might step Into In a storm, to certain death. On the floor of this gorge Lee could see a few scrub birches standing primly erect, seeming to he hardly larger than tree seedlings in a horti cultural nursery. The (insure extended diagonally of the cabin. Lee began to retrace his steps, following It along its edge, until he came to a place where It termi nated suddenly In a pile of great rocks of granite outcrop. Two of these rocks stood up, one on each side of the end of the chasm, like monoliths, although it was clear that they had not been fashioned by human hands. Between them was a third, Mkt* a monolith that had been | flung down. Besting on this was an enormous ; rock anil Lee, who hatl^been walking Into the /act* of ^lie wind, stopped and leaned against this stone for a few moments. In order to catch Ids breath. -•Bo his astonishment the massive boulder seemed about to topple back- warti under his weight. He felt him self slipping. He turned 'round, clutched at the stone, and saw If heav ing under Ids gaze like a ship at sea. Ami then he realized what hatl ha]*- penetl. The stone was not collapsing, hut the pressure of his hotly had set It in motion. It came slowly to a standstill. T*ee pressed his hand against the boulder, and immediately It was in movement ‘again. It vvn,s a rocking stone, and probably one of the largest in the world. The least touch started it*, so deli cately was it poised, hut a team of horses could not have shifted It from its position. As the huge, overhanging side tilted, at Lee's touch, he saw a narrow open ing underneath it. His first thought vvas that it was that ing animal. Then lie* pf the sharp edges of the hole had un doubtedly been made by a spade. Unman hands had made It. Lee stared at it until the stone, returning, hid the opening from view. He swung the boulder again, and, as it tilted, revealing the hole once more, he flattened himself, face downward, upon the ground underneath. The stone, in its return, lust grazed his shoulders. Lee came to the conclusion tlia’ the hole extended downward beneath the base of the great stone, and. lying flat on Ids face, he pushed it tip with Ids shoulders. The light that came in as it rocked backward showed him a foothold in the granite beneath the strip n.f mould that covered it—a rock ledge, with gaping blackness below. Then the stone came hack into posi-'- tlon again, and nothing was visible. (flinging, in tin* darkness ti. the edges nf Hu* hob*, Lee extended a foot downward. 'Ihe toe of hi< hoot struck a ledge of rock. Crawling dow n, Lee lowered himself until lie felt a second foothold beneath. Below that was a third. He found himself descending a lad der of rock. And very cirefully he began work ing his way downward. The granite ’ vv wnl! \v;is p<»lislio<l ^ smooth as gbiHS, each foothold was precariously slip pery, and he dung like a hat with hands and knees n< hr descended. But in a few minutes a dim light began to filter upward from below. Lee's head '-craped against rock The light grew stronger, i-flakcs of snow whirled in. Then he emerged into daylight, to find Idm-df dinging to tie* interior , fining of tie* great dittMii, Ilk** a fly ! on a vvall. three-fourths of the way ! down The show was whirling about him..but the wind had ceased, cut off by the, precipitous walls of the chasm, i Then Lee understood. He had found 1 an entrance, probably the only one, K into the gorge; hut someone had pp*- ' ceded him. patiently assisting nature in the creation and enlargement of the steps of that rocky ladder, vvhidi had] been Tfoded,' during the course of | millenniums.' by the action of a now dried up waterfall. "only water could lui'c hollowed out that cour-.* M the play of tin* leaping torrent on the projections of the granite. * —, Looking down from when* hi*••clung, aw that a thin stream trickled ov**!' a sandy bed in the puddle "f the gorge below, issuing from on** end. where it hurst out of the, granite, carrying with ft the debris of the t.l- lijvinl land, above—mud, gravel, and sand. And suddenly the idea occurred to him that in all probability he had stumbled upon old Belly's gold mine. In which event, what more natural than that Belly was hiding in that in accessible spot, where he would he ab solutely seeure against discovery- un less he had Incautiously permitted some on** to share his secret? And peril ups Joyce knew, and !*d come up In orflp)' to he with hlhi and to procure food supplies for him. Lw gnashed his teeth at the fhoug'ht of It. Fortune had played Into his hands. Lee saw that from the point where he was cljnging, there appeared to be a fairly dusy , dew^nt to the bottom. It wtis only fli'e upper parts of the cliff* in the gorge that were unscalable. But he could go no furttyer now. Anxiety for Joyce was rising in him. He was half afraid she might do <the log* house, and this specter In which he had disbelieved, now began to assume in Ida mind a formidable aspect. - Suddenly, as Lee clung there, he heard a rumbling sound above his head, a/id a moment later something hurtled past it and smashed upon the ground of the chasm. Looking flown, 6- Lee saw the fragments of an enor mous boulder lying on the ground Im mediately beneath him. He hud had a narrow escape. And reluctantly he turned to re-enter the tuMnel. But before he hud thrust his h**H 1 and shoulders In. there came an other rumble. - And this time It was only the tittle projecting ledge above his head that saved ins life. The boulder struck the edge of It, shot out into the air, and, Just missing him, smashed to pieces below. Lee looked up. hut the overhanging cliffs shut out the view of everything except the overhanging hushes and the sky. » - Whether or not human agency was responsible for the fall of the two boulders, it was certain that tin* tun nel's mouth <lid not appear to he a particularly healthy spot at that mo ment. And Lee forced his head and sliotil- 'der* through, and groped for the rock ladder within. bruLing hia-thlghs and shins against the **dg**-*-rrf the open ings. Extending his hands, he felt" the smooth surlace of the water-worn, ln^ tcrior wall, lie grasped the ladder, dung to it, pulled himself up. :1I ?d found his footing. And then of a sudden Leo had the unmistakable instinct that he'was not alone. There was another living thing within the tunnel! Though it was absolutely dark, ex cept for the faintest reflection from the interior of tTte'gorge, which filtered up from below, and though Lee could not hour the faintest sound. In* felt Its presence; by some inner sense—that was not bearing, he felt the rhythmical pulsations of its life. And it was';t human being. Lee felt the fog of human hatred flung out to ward him. Instinotivdy in* knew the Imminence of an encounter under con ditions more nerve-racking than any he had ever experienced. He knew for sure now that tin* fall of Hi** two boulders had been no accident. He had been watched, he had been seen to enter, and tliat watcher meant to figl.t him to Hi** death. And of course it was Body ! He did not relish the prospect of a struggle with the crazed old mhn, on# Which could hardly end in any other way than by the death of one of them. It would lie m sharp, relent less struggle, In which Lee’s disadvan tage lay in the fait that he could not he the lirst to fire. Lee called,: "Is that you. Belly? I want to talk to von " ^ PROGRAM*^ ♦♦♦ - 'A- Thursday, April 9th: X, .j. "THE EAGLE’S FEATHER," with James A *; f Kirkwood, Mary Alden and Fdinor Fair. Y X Friday, April 10th: A ;! "THE PLUNDERER," with Evelyn Brent, % «£♦ Peggy Shaw, Frank Mayo, Tom Santschi. ♦♦♦ ❖ ' Saturday, April 11th: *£ «$♦ “HI! AND RUN,” Featuring Hoot Gibson. Monday, April 13th: “THE FRENCH DOLL,” with Mae Murray. Tuesday, April 14th: “WORLDLY GOODS,” with Agnes Ayres, i ___ Pat O’Malley, etc. A Paramount. (CONTINUED NEXT WEEK) Wednesday and Thursday, April 15 and 16: ^ | “THE BIRTH OF A NATION,” matinee and night. 25 and 50c. ♦> Driven Nail May Cause Blindness WhiL., Mr. C. M. Porter, who lives near Williston, vvas driving; a nail about ten days ago, he evidently hit the nail a glancing Mow, causing it to fly up and strike him in the eye. It ,\vas driven with such tovee as to pen etrate the eye-ball and the bony structure of the nos*'. Although 'suf fering intense pain, Mr. Porter pulled the nail out of hi- eye unaided. He has IdDi^the sight of the injured eye. it is said, and it is feared that he may become totally blind. He was carried to the University Hospital in Augusta Friday for treatment. --— L Advertise in The People. A The Best Way to Buy Some folks .-eein to think that it takes a lot of special knowledge to buy a used automobile with satety. IT DOES. }»ut it isn’t car knowledge-That counts for ., r—T 3 a the purchaser. The (iy-ifler Should know ALL ABOUl THE CAR, but the purchaser should know ALL ABOUT DEALER. . Our used car business is an open book that’ every body can read. \VE INVITE YOU TO INSPECT THE FOLLOWING— -"V— -J l{j:i model .Studebaker Special Six touring. 19‘J4 model Special Six Studebaker Sedan. 192') model Hudson 5-Passenger Sedan. 1924 model Dodge Bros, delivery truck. 1924 model Chevrolet Coupe. - 1924 model Essex-4 touring car. 1924 model Buick-4 touring car. 1924 model Studebaker Light Six touring. conscience within you to determine.— as if a man ejjmld have leaped acres* + t A. Sterne The Treasure-Chest God made the earth to supply humaa need*. Constantly. We are proving It to be a treasure-chest We have but to lift the lid and help oursolve*.— mlt was leas than half that of the base. Brangellcal Tiding*. 1 it wait Just such a chaam as a man . 1 ■ t J • ‘ - it. This was undoubtedly Incorrect, the distance between cliff and cliff being only apparently reduced by the dense underbrush that fringed the orifice; but the distance between the walls, which inclined Inward toward the sura- And many others it would certainly be to your advantage to investigate before £ tmying anywhere. All cars in excellent mechanical condition and repainted where No obligation to buy, but an invitation to investigate. necessary’. something rash. In some way Itathvvay seemed to he associated vvitli Belly; perbapaJifi^wit* protecting him. "Suppose, then, that the girl had gone hack to the Free Traders' heiidipiarterg on Siston lake? Or fled into the storm In her frenzy? Suppose they had been followed? Lee remembered bis fancy that he bad »*en an Indian watching them. The Free Traderls would surely have been watching the trail at either end of the lake, knowing that sooner or later they must emerge out of the forests. be remembered the hJ^qw i& "-i, COLUMBIA, C. ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦<* 1925 MAIN STREET ... - A *. ■' ’ . , '• rl - —Cl