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' ; - .' . 'sondav mrnrn i stRMON.sMyuyj i Tlieme: A CI Brooklyn, N. Y.?Preaching at the Irving Square Presbyterian Church > on the theine, "A Christian. Why?" the pastor, the Rev. Ira Wemmell Henderson, took as his text Acts 26: 28. "A Christian." He said: This is the question that men who are outside of Christ ask. This is the inquiry that many of the best souls in the service of the Master find difficulty to answer in such fashion as to satisfy the intellects of those who do not enjoy the same spiritual blessings that they themselves possess in Jesus. This is the interrogation that we must be prepared to grant a sane and convincing reply if we are to be the workers in the vineyard of our Lord, that He desires us to be. We should be prepared at. all times to undergo examination on this point. Always must we be ready to declare the reasons for and the reasonableness of the faith, that is within us. And yet bowjnany of us can. on the moment. give clear, concise, argumentativelv uphdSdable grounds for our spiritual faith. The most, of us fall hack upon the assertion that we are Christians because we find in it the satisfaction of our minds, our hearts, s our souls. For us this is sufficient. But the man who goes behind our satisfaction is oftentimes the man > we meet and a man who always must he replied to with reasonable evidence and convictPd out of the fullness of sensible, intellectually compelling truth. He asks what are the grounds of our satisfaction; what is the brand of the satisfaction that we find glory in; why. in short, are we ' at the root Christians? A Christian. Why? And to answer that we must look within and without us: we must take counsel with our souls and with the countless souls of the universe of God; we - must consider contemporaneous life and we must examine history; we must understand the spiritual and the moral elements in man; we must take cognizance, with care, of the human race, everywhere and in all time. It is not necessary that we shall be experts upon the minute details of the historic life of humanity. It is essential that we shall be correct in our judgments and that our > ' premises shall be valid. A Christian. Why? Now some men are Christians by heredity. They are so by birth. They have grown up in the~arms of the church unques ; tioningly and have ta?en the religion, as they have taken the names, of their fathers and their mothers. Far be it from me to disparage that sort <<' of religious life, if so be it be full and free and glorious to the soul of the man who is its divinely endowed possessor. Such a man is usually quite able to declare the grounds of his belief. But there are many hereditary Christians who can give no enduring reasons for their religious acceptances?I can hardly call them convictions any more than some men can reveal in intelligent fashion the reasons for their hereditary po< litical affiliations. Some men are J. Christians because it is politic so to x he; others because it is commercially or politically or otherwise profitable; and still a larger host I fear are the . nominal disciples of the Nazarene because it is socially commendable and wise. Some men ate Christians because the Bible commands such a W -v religious course upon those who read its precious words. Better that sort of reason and that kind of Christianity t?an none at all. Many other men are intellectual Christians. They yield homage to the historic Christ; of the vital and invigorating Savior who fills the souls of men to-day with blessedness and joy and beauty, power, peace, they have no conception. They know much concerning Christ, but of Him they are as igas the Hottentot is of the laws 7^; > of the Medes and Persians. And all these men cannot lead men of intellectual and discerning force into the very presence of the Most High as He stands revealed to us to-day in Jesus Christ until they are indwelt by Jesus and are certified in their own lives by radical evidence, rather than by superficial, of the deepest and the holiest influences that make the Christian life Joyoiis and that commend it to the world at large. A Christian. Why? To speak broadly we may say that all men are instinctively religious. Whatever we may have been before the dawn of history, the truth outstandingly is this, that normal men everywhere are essentially religious. Men are not equally advanced in religious information or in the several departments of religious thought. But irresistably and indubitably we are impressed with the fact that universally men are endowed with a common elemental religious capacity and susceptibility. Throughout all the world we -fin/? Tiiimanitv pYhibitins: a religious Instinct which reveals itself in the consciousness of a spiritual relationship with a higher power and ic obedience to certain moral regulations that are conceived to be beneficial to society and to the individual ir his human relationships, and satisfactory to the higher agency thai controls the world. Everywhere men in the outreaching of their spiritua faculties, desire the intimate knowl edge of an understandable power which we call God. They desire tc know the truth concerning that God They desire that the universal rulei of the destinies of men shall unfolc lb them the wisdom residing in Him self. They yearn with eagerness anc with hope unspeakable for a releas< from the bondage and the dominioi of sin?that is to say, from the con trol and influence of a detrimenta force which, whether it be understoo( and expressed in the terms of ob jective or of subjective experience is, none the less, real. Ham in hand with the spiritual con sciousness there goes an ele mental, a growing, perception of thi actuality, the necessity and the valu< of moral law as the applied truth of ; self-unfolding God; a moral la"? 1 "? * ? :-.r-. gf |p u ' '" . ' \: mp/rm - S-^ ;?|.;; | GV TME: RE^-Jfjf* RAW. HtNDER.Sjo^, "ME PAMOOS.DIVINE iristian. Why? which in its fullest outworkings shall mark as tangible and real the results of the spiritual energies upon the life of man: a moral law which, in short, shall prove a nanacea for individual and social ills, i We are Christians. Why? Simply because in the face of human necessity and human experience, in the face of the universal religions facts, in the face of our own religious information. we believe, and are sure we can demonstrate beyond neradventure. that in Christianity there is to be found both the deepest, and the fullest, and the richest spiritual life, and the highest and most efficient moral law. We are Christians, because in the kingdom of Cod as unfolded to us in Jesus Christ we are assured of. and have entered into, the certainty of a sensible communion with a bjjrher power which, as an imminent, infinite, humanly ' understandable, loving nersonalitv, is revealed objectively to us in the person of theMaster. .And this personality, whom j we call God, strengthens, sustains, comforts, consoles, inspires us, and j is constantly, both obiectiv^lv and i spiritually, revealing Himself to us. We are Christians because in Christ and His Gosnel we find the fullness of divine truth unfolded, in language and revealed in convincing power in a human life. Human wisdom cannot comprehend larger principles of righteousness and loftier spiritual conceptions than are delivered to us in the messages of Jesus, nor a grander application of the sufficiency of those truths for the molding of character and the influencing of human life than is to be perceived in Christ. We are Christians because within that faith is to be found an escane from the dominion of sin which is far more efficient and far more sure than any to be found elsewhere. Jesus is indeed the answer of the universal hope and of the world-wide need. In Him the soul of the Individual, and of society, finds final-release from the power of the adversary. His salvation is free: it is universal in its appeal: it is simple as to its conditions: it requires no education of the schools in order to he understood: it is potent in this life and it reaches out into eternity, granting to the ain-sick, wesry, burdened hearts of men the precious promise of not only final but also lasting deliverance from the prince of the powers of darkness. We are Christians because the faith that finds its name and its inspiration in .Tesus Christ is the recentacle of the highest moral law. Within the treasury of Christian truth is to he found the last thing in the application of the principles of ? "? -i T.l I. tne eternal aommion 01 jeuuvau iu the affairs of humanity in their multifarious relationships. In all the world there is no gospel which is so far-reaching and so mandatory, so inclusive and so searching, as it concerns itself with human conduct, as is the Gospel of the Savior, when it is rightly accepted and properly understood. Emanating as it does from God and theocentric as it is in spirit, it satisfies our hearts and keeps us firm in the Christian faith. In it we recognize the handiwork of God. We find in it the final solution, the panacea for the dissolution of all human ills. Uncompromising with evil and declaring constantly for the pure, the righteous and the good, it inspires our devotion. Greatest and best of all, we are Christians because all that we have received, all that we accept, all that makes us strong and steadfast, is, when we test it in our individual experience, found to be faultless. The Gospel whereby we are saved, the Christ who is our Redeemer, the promises which daily are mediated to us by our Lord: all these may be taken not without investigation, or upon hearsay evidence. We may try the revelations of God for ourselves. We have tried them. We are, therefore, Christians. The Father of All. Someone has caught thie beaptiful message from the trees and flowers. As the natural sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the vrhole world, so the Sun of Right' ~ 1- C? ?? *?"i? n fo fow eOUSIlfcJSS blliucs UUl IVi a, mwivu ?W.. but for the world of human hearts. As the lonely pine on the mountain ; side looks up to the sun and c&es, 1 "Thou art my sun," and the little : meadow violet looks up and whispers, ' 'Thou art my sun," and each field 1 of grass and grain upon a thousand " hills looks up and softly breathes, 'Thou art my sun," so the high and 1 low, the rich and poor, the Caucasian and African can look up to the Sun ' of Righteousness and say, "Thou art f my Father." > ^ Appreciation. t Recently a wealthy man of society gave a dinner for fifteen friends, and the cost was sixty dollars a plate. t With a few extras it cost him about $1000. On his way home he rek marked to a neighbor, "Not one of the fellows appreciated it, and I am coaij ing home mad at myself for my foolishness." A man gathered ten ragged boys together and treated them to ice j cream. As they left the confectioner's, they raised their caps and gave 'r him a "hurrah" that was heard j blocks away. He went home happy. His one dollar had done more than j the other's thousand. a - ? - ' " j Under His Wings. Little thought is ever given to the 1 prevision and devotion of the mother 1 bird as necessary to the very life of - her young, and little thought is taken of the tremulous affection with whicn 1 the Holy Spirit broods or hovers over . souls as necessary to their regen eration. "How excellent is Thy love ing kindness, 0 God!" for under the e shadow of Thy wings only could wc a ever have come by the principle oi v life spiritual and eternal. x .1:J ... ... t v " ^ > V, '<'i pp Two Opinions cf Solitude. While serving in Nebraska, Dr. Walter Reed, remembered for his distinguished service in the extermination of yellow fever, was frequently called on to practise among the grangers, <who eke outbare subsistence ; by trying to farm where the rainfall j is barely sufficient for a good crop ; once in three years. In the winters, j says the author of "Walter Reed and ; Yellow Fever," he was often obliged, : in the discharge of his professional j duties, to take journeys on horseback ; that were dangerous from the risk of being overtaken by a blizzard. A little incident occurred on one of these exDeditions which Doctor Reed always referred to with amuse-! ment as an instance of the difference in man's "point of view." He was sent for while a blizzard was raging and the thermometer was below zero to go a distance of twelve miles to see a sick woman. He started at sunset in a driving wind, out on to the open prairie, iwlhere nothing could be seen but a sheet of snow, j stretching miles and miles ahead of j him, without a landmark visible. It j was not long before he lost his way, j and wandered about for hours, when suddenly a little beacon of light ap- j peared, and he found the tiny cabin he was seeking. The woman was very ill, and he could not leave her until the next af-1 terncon, during which time the husband did his best to entertain "him. While they were sitting before the rickety stove waiting for some coffee to boil, the old man drawled out: "Well, doc, I often feel sorry for you folks at the post. I know you all must git powerful lonely sometimes." The post consisted of four companies, with headquarters and the band. Moreover, it was situated within sight of the railroad-station; and Doctor Reed, with the recollection of it in his mind, was at that very moment commiserating inwarcfly the utter isolation of this poor old pair in their remote cabin. SOME KIND OP WEAPON NEEDED. The waiter girl knew a thing or two about table etiquette. So she sniffed scornfully as she said: "It's not our custom to serve a knife with pie." "No?" remarked the patron in surprise. "Then bring me an ax."?Christian Register. *tts st Vitns'Dance :Nervort8 Diseases per manenlly cured by Dr. Kline's Great .rserv? Restorer. S3 trial bottle and treatise free. Dr. H. R. Kline. Ld.,331 Arch St., Phila., Pa. If advice was worth as much as it is supposed to be, it would never be as free as it is. Only One "Bromo Qninine" That is Laxative Bromo Quinine. Similarly named remedies sometimes deceive. The first and original Cold Tablet is a White Package, with blaok and red lettering, and bears the signature oi K. W. Grove. 25c. 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My circle of friends is very large, and I am persuading them to use Cuticura Soap and give up the kinds they were using. I find no trouble, as my case, has proven to them that if Cuticura Ointment is good, Cuticura Soap must be likewise. Miss Netta Ayers, 131 Franklin Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y., Sept. 1 and 15, '06." The difference between wages and ; safaris lies wholly in the amount of each. DOES YOUR BACK ACHE? Core the Kidneys and the Pain Will Never Return. Only one sure way to cure an aching back. Cure the cause, the kldneys. Thousands tell of cures made by WT Doan's Kidney rins. John C. Coleman, a prominent merchant \ of Swainsboro, Ga.t says: "For several years my kidneys I were affected, and my back ached day languid, nervous and lame in the morning. Doan's Kidney Pills helped me right away, and the great relief that followed has been permanent." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. i Foster-Milburn Co.. Buffalo. N. Y. 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We use the same plants on MllWbW 3K2?'fX our thousand acre trucK farm. Plants carefully counted and properly lOnVgflM Bcy^qa packed. Celery ready last cf Dec. Lettuce, onion and Beer plains, same fir Ban! time or earlier Reduced express rates promised, which, when effective 7 t|H "will give us t>0 per cent less than merchandise rates. Prices: Small lots |K|UAU Pv<tr^ Sl.?0j?er thousand large lot $1.00 to $1.25 per thousand. VI O. B. Meg- BBttjGI M3|gB *bw-> getis.S.C. arllngt' n W Idle Spine CucomLer teed Oucents rer pounu. HBHH : y.o. b. > eggetts, S. C. The United Mates agricultural Department ? has established anl Exj?erlmental station on our farms, to test all kinds of vegetables, espai ...... 1k? v.wniit ?f these exDeriments we will r? pleased to give you atanvtlme. "* "J ; Yp^sT^emfuiiy " X. II. BriTCH COMPAN Y. ME86ETTB, S. C. erokee'Remedy of Sweet Gum and Mullein gKS^R; H ughs, Colds, LaGrippe ?? ggaifcSC : f