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GOLDEN TEXT-If God be for us, who Is against us?-Rom. 8:31 R. V. For forty days (v. 16) Goliath defied Saul's army, encamped near Bethle hem. Three of the gone of Jesse were in Saul's army and to them David is sent with food (vy. 13, 18, 19). Those brothers scornfully reproached David when he expressed a willingness to light Goliath, accusing him of pride and reminding him that he was but a shop. lierd (vv. 26-29). David's words are carried to Saul and he is introduced to the king. I. Boastful Pride, vv. 38-44. Fear knd dismay were aroused at the very sight of this proud Philistine (vv. 11, 14, 32), yet such fear was foreign to David, for his eyes were not upon man lut upon God (v. 37). He related to saul his exploits not as boasting but is giving him assurance that God was ible to deliver him out of the hand of this Philistine. Saul, who had once been a man of like simple faith, is now Is much in fear as any of his army. David was perhaps about twenty years :f age and verse 56 calls him a "strip ling," hence it was that Saul's armor would not fit him (cf. 10:23). Human ly speaking, it was an impossible thing David offered to accomplish single. lianded. Even Saul (v. 32) sought to lissuade David, but David was not trusting in man nor depending upon the armor of the king (v. 39; Ps. 27:1 ; Isa. 12:2; Rom. 8:31). David took is familiar staff and sling (see 1 Phess. 5:21) and sallied forth, "strong ii the Lord, not inshimself; armed not vith steel but with faith." Crossing 'the valley" (v. 40 marg.) he prepared 'is sling, with which every Israelite ,vas skilled (see I Sam. 13:19-23). On 3ame the giant, a man about nine feet :all (v. 4), "a stalking mountain, over aid with brass and Iron," preceded by lis protector (v. 41). Why such a sol Her after his period of triumph should lesire this added safety is not quite :lear. It suggests, however, the sin ier's timidity which reveals his essen :al weakness in that he trusts him self, takes no chances, and is even sus picious of his own supporters. What x contrast! This armored giant and .his ruddy-faced, unarmed youth, car rying only the staff, wherewith he was wont to fight wild beasts, and his fling! When God calls a man lie uses that weapon with which the man is nost familiar, and when the church or he Christian soldier seeks to fight in hie armor of another, or by using the veapons of the world, it is foredoomed o failure (Ex. 4:2; Judges 3:31). II. Conquering Humility, vv. 45-51. )avid acknowledged Goliath's su )orior armament, yet armed with the lame of the God of the army of Israel vhich Goliath had injiulted, his confi hence overtops that of the Philistine Lnd he hurls back his broud boast. F'urthermore, the victory was to be an mn~ediate one, "this day" (Zech. 4:6; Fames 4:7). With calm assurance he nuforms Goliath of the outcome of heir conflict, but takes no credit to imself. David had naught but naked alh and the sense of a just cause to :trengthen his arm. He would do to iollath and the Philistines the things liat Goliath had boasted he would do o David (vv. 44 and 46) "that all the barth may know that there is a God n Israel;" see also v. 47. David's eemingly insufficient preparation is iow revealed to 'be abundant, for he uad four stones more than he needed v. 40). It is thus that God chooses he weak things to confound the mighty (I Cor. 1:27). iii. Summary. We have before us bhree lessons. First the lesson of indi ridual responsibility. A sinful king had )aralyzed the effectiveness of the trmy of Israel. David, "a man after lod's own heart," refused Saul's ar nor, crying out "I cannot go in these." saul, bound by tradition, must use ~onventional weapons. Every great Ldvance in the history of the church ins been led by some man who struck mut boldly, insensible alike to the con rentionalism of his friends and the gibes of the enemy. God would have avery man work according to himself, uot copying, not imitating, but with his wn equipment. Second, all the giants f sin have not yet been overthrown. bWe still have the giants of Intemper mece, Unchastity, Graft, Selfishness, ambition and the Inequalities of our :ivic and social life. These can only de overcome in the strength of God. Bunyan mentions three giants, Pride, Grim and Pagan; to these we uuay add, Anger, Untruthfulness, Self. shness and Sullenness. Third, Our Helper. See Golden r'ext. Of all the graces David pos ;essed, faith was the root of each one -faith in a living God. is active faith caused him with uimble feet to attack this blasphenmous glemy (v. 48), His inith in God characterizes his mntire life, resounds in his songs and iti'ength~ened his life of service for Je iovah. It is such faith that strengthens the irnm of the true saint of God, that en ibles him to "overconlie" in his own life, to undertake for God and to go to thie ends of the earth in his name. send your next or ler for printing to ['he Sentinel and have it printed Telephone 27 So keW Congressiiatt Aiken's Reply to Mr. Tilman Mr. Editor: Senator Tillman 's statement a few days ago in reference to the establishment, of .the new federal 'dourt, In the light of the facts known to all the delegation, Is amusing and amaring. His painstaking ef fort to deny me credit for the passage of my own bill would seem to leave no question but that the underlying pft'pose of his article is to minimize my. work in the interest of some one in whom he may be more vitally interested. This taken in con nection with the announced pur pose of his own son to offer for congress in this district next term might, in the minds of un charitable people, lead to the con clusion that the senator is usine this juicy federal pie, indirectly, in the interest of still another of his personal or political family. Some people might think that Mr. Byrnes' residence in another district added something to the glory of his work in the sena tor's mind. That Congressman Byrnes was Very active and helpful in the passage of the bill no one will deny; but that he deserves more credit than I, its author and promoter he will not even clai.n, with his knowledge of the facts, for Mr. Byrnes is a fair minded man who would not attempt un justly to rob a colleague of that which is due him I am charitable enough to be lieve that Senator Tillman could not have been thoroughly con versant with the facts further than that Mr. Byrnes was gen erally the mediary between the senate and the house negotia tions, in all of which Mr. Byrnes and I had a thorougJh under standing and a mutual interest! along with all the other mem bers of the delegation. Nothing is so distasteful to me as toi recite my work as a public servant., and especially IN, in doing so, there is the slightest I seeming of taking aught of credit from any of my colleagues. However, the fact that I was the author of the bill, coupled with the further fact that the senior senator, whom the state has honored exceptionally, andi for whom I have entertained great respect and even admira tion, should publish an article to all intents and purposes ig noring my part in its )assage, should at least call forth a public statement from me. I have waited several days before pub lishing this statement, in vain hope that the senator in some of his addendumns would make amends for what seems to have been his sin of omission if not of commission. Since he has not done so, "icandor compels me," even with the more or less frequent use of the pronoun "I" to say a wor'd in defense. Th~le fact is the effort to p~ut through this new district 1)111 has engaged the attention of the delegation for more than two years, with varying chances of success. Some months prior to the last general election the whole scheme- seemed to have fallen to the ground with little hope of resurrection. ~The chair man of the judiciary committee in the house (Mr. Webb) was very much op~posed to it and while he expressed a friendly sympathy with my efforts to obtain a favorable report of my bill, he designated it as a steal. Hei said the diata presented to the committee was totally in sufficient. Upon this hint, I wvent to wvork and dug up all the facts going to show that by We nieco Weslictlyo S- id you wan i fr . I }a tenapti aphr and stve tou it promsed. If Tir comparison1Wth. other " s: South CarolIna who hAt.tiedt anothr' 'district. which fCAts9 subsequently' prin ted In the Rec ord; and I say. u 1 hesitatingly, but for this data, furnished by me, there. would bay beexinno favorable action n.30-,bJil.In the house and there wU d hve been no new federal. district court in South Carolina. Senator Tillman claims credit for removing the opposition of the Republican leader in the house, whose influence in the press of time might have killed the bill. The senator is utterly oblivious of the fact that strong Republican Influences in South Carolina had been brought to bear on Mr. Mann to withdraw his opposition, as the new judic ial district was really a public necessity. So the question of who silenced Republican leader Mann, his Republican friends in South Carolina, or Senator Tillman, may be settled aside from this controversy by those claiming the honor. Senator Tillman makes use of the following broadside, in the beginning of his publised state ment. ' Wyatt Aiken intro duced the bill early in the year, but it lay asleep in the judiciary committee of the house. I in troduced Aiken's bill in - the senate, and tried to get it out of the judiciary con mmitte there, but failed because of an unfa vorable report from the attorney general and the objection of a western senator whose state needed a judge much more than South Carolina." It would seem then, by his own admission, that his bill slept some, too. In fact, it slept the sleep unto death, for."candor compels the admis sion" that it is the Aiken and not the Tillmian bill that has be come law. A few facts imme diately associated with the final passage of the district bill might turn the light on at least a little more space than that seen from the senator's viewpoint. There are twenty-two senators now serving in congress with whomi I have served in the lower house. I approached every one of these on the question of the bill and after making a fair pre sentation of our case secured either their support of it or their promise not to oppose it. ,Sena tor Walsh of Montana was op posed to the bill and I reached him through Mr. Evans, of Montana, whose office is next door to mine. SenatorOverman ofNorth Car olina was opposed to the bih to the very last, but a member of the SoutIh Carolinia (telegation, at my suggest ion, got Represen tative Page of Nort~h Carolina to present the matter to Senator Overman, and in this way the senator's opposition w as allayed. Senator TLillman seems to be laboring under the impression that he handled1 both the senate and the house in the manage ment of this bill, when if he had known the facts he must have admitted that the senate action was directed to sonme extent~ by house influences, and that Sen ator Smith, too. rendlered most valuable and telling assistance in the final passage of the act, which fact he seems entirely to have overlooked. Recurring to that profound sleep of my bill in the judiciary committee of the house, I have already shown how it became necessary to meet the opposition, and especially of the chairman of the committee, Mr. Webb, with a fuller statement of justi fying figumes in the interest of the bill. But even this did not allay the opposition of the chair man, and it was only on my earnest personal appeal that he Which yoi r' g ashamed t< have done at The ! mnparison of our pri: ais county, or anyx ur printing orders < r~ prices are reasona your printed matte: 2h of distinction ab< you want a cheap 1 i~zard fashion, send please and deliver e us a trial' order. Plckens Sen z.~ rrai1tted a favera io~1.Q .the blly.- Whe4Athe ~~ 4hq hoq.e&judJi1at jcot toe as e.iator Tilliman;* p0 0 t,' it was bn 'tp advife boff*. 1lo Id, of Arkanas, chNirma. of' th .Oub-committee in charge of the V1ll; 'not to Push the bill the) bto wait till the short session and he would do his best for a favorable report. Subsequent events proved the wisdom of the suggestion. In the closing hours of the session members were less critical about local affairs. Although Messrs. Mann, Re publican, and Cull9p Democrat, objected to the immediate con sideration of. my bill, which temporarily took it off of the un animous consent calendar, I had the bill put back on that same calendar to save time, as time was everything for th6 life of the bill. When I finally called up the b11 Mr. Onllop did not object, but offered an amend ment, as it was thought, with the hope of defeating it. It was to require the publication of the names ofendorsers of applicants for judgeships. I saw no ob jection to the amendment, and so accepted it, thereby silencing, any objection that Mr. Cullop might have to the bill. The fact is I have nursed and petted the district bill till at times my patience has been well nigh exhausted. For instance, even after the bill had passed the house at about 3 o'clock in the afternoon. I immediately hurried to the engrossing clerk and urged him to have it back on the speaker's table as early as possible. He said it would be probably 8 o'clock at night before he could do this. I would take no denial, however, and stayed with him and had the bill returned to the speaker's desk by 5 o'clock. Moments were golden and I stayed to see that none were lost, While I was attending to this Mr. Byrnes said that, he would go over and inform the senators that the bill had passed the house. Later I went to the senate and saw Senator Tillman and suggested to Mr. Byrnes and later to Senator Tillman that as soon as my bill reached the senato for him to move its passage withoutJ reference to a committee. He said he ivould consult a senatorial friend, and later I saw him talking to Sen ator Gallinger, the Republican floor leader, presumably as to whether or not the procedure would be parliame itary. Senator Tillman, after claiming all the credit for its passage, frankly admitted that he (1id not expect it to pass, andl we must take him at his word1. Others did ex pect it to pass. becauise they knewv the way had been smooth er for its passage. In order that Senator Tillman miighit get this b~ill pun ctu all y a fter it ha d passed the house and beeni engrossedI, I in formed his clerk t hat the honse engrossing clerk had promised me to sit right'at his dleskc until Senator Tillman sent a page for him and1 the bill, and1 he salid he wouIld stay until daylight if necessary. Of course these details are not interesting to the public, but "candor compels'' their recital to prove, as the lawyers would say, "that I was around there when the new district bill was (daddied.'' Senator Till man deniies with a vehemence bordering on hys teria tha~t the parceling out of the court's positions was a ''family matter.'' 1 think Mr. McGowan's suggestion along that line was unfortunate and uncalled for, but I also think t h a t when Senator Tillman~ rushed into print about it, he i will not be n use is the n entinel office n riting with any E vhere else, for R nthe basis of 9 ble. e to be correct 9 >Ut it, let us do >oking job, got it elsewhere. all work when 9 Niv k '8 -W,, after they bave trid q dotors and 67te thing but we do know oe well. War know 0tio ti1 , -. ' taoies so an td elevq zan, and aimeni 1be wil11 eI. reileved In anf her-way. We Prove What WeSay The Globe 'Optical Company Masonic Temple GREENvILLE,.*R. C. A. A. ODOM., A. I. SUlA F,, Pres. Sec. and Treas. CONSULTIN OPToM ltrs'IrSTS should haye been frank and fair. It is true that the parceling out of the positions was not a family matter. but Senator Tillman de serves no credit on that account. Rumor about the capital had it that he became very much wrought up when he could not exact a pledge that his son, B. R. Tillmau, Jr., should have the clerkship. I pr6sume he will not deny that for more than a year his son, Henry C. Tillman, counted confidently on being made assistant district attorney, upon which position he held so tight a grip as to be able to trans. fer it to his law )artner, Mr. Mayes. It is stated that Sena tor Tillman's private secretary, J. B. Knight, will be appointed clerk. I don't know whether Mr. Knight will be appointed or not, and I don't care, but the point I am trying to make is that when Senator Tillman undertakes to make a statement in regard to this matter he should not only tell the truth, but the whole trut.h. Now, if I have failed to give clue credit to others of my as sociates in congress in the mat 1er of the p ssage of the disttet bill, it has been for the reason that it wN'o il( have drawn out thii art'ol ntirely too long. Tl'hey 'et ' Ympathetic and active as fNarY, s their time would permit in aiding in the passage of the federal district bill. in portant committee work claimed the attention of some while Mr. Blyrnes andl I were engaged on dletails, but the delegation was of one mind( for its passage. Of course Mir. John1soni could not and did not take part in the wvork for the passage of the bill, as he had had intimation that he would he endorsed for the judgeship. Mr. Lever wvas bus ily engagedl on the committee of con ference on the agricultural appropriation bill, and could spare but little time from his work. Mr'. Finlecy was simiilarly engaged on the conference com mittee on the postoflice appro priation bill, bu t aided material ly in the final passage of the bill. Mr. Whaley, with every local reason for opuposing the bill, and against the protest of some of his home peole, renl dered invaluable service in many. ways, and was especially help ful in a parliamecntary way. Mr. Johnson was endorsed for judge by the entir'e delegation, while Messrs. T~huP.mond and L yon were named, th'?'27 by SenatQr T~illman, the latter by Senator Sith, under an agreement made at the opening of the DeI ocratic congress, that South Catilina representatives should leave the naming of state-wide oificers to the two senators, while t h e senators should leave the naming of post masters to the representatives. And there I trust you have at least enough of the story of the passage of the district bill to convince you that I was in WVashington wv h e in m y bill passed1, which could hardly have been inferred from reading Sen ator Tilman 's published state ment. Respectfully, WYATT AIKEN. A bbeville, S. C'. March 24, 19153. H AVE. V( a telephone in your house? Itf so, call the Pickens H ard ware and Grocery Co. when ini need of anything for the table. If not, send the children. We assure you that they will receive our usual and prompt attention the same as a grown person. 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