The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, March 11, 1897, Image 5
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THE LEDGER: GAFFNEY', S. C., MARCH 11, 1897.
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REV. DR. TAL*'
V. • .
He S»y» Nut* . ;
For til.- Ci !•
Soul — It I", n .
nificcni Fca!
Wasuingtij:., '
BcsFoa of rc!i. iv?» •''
Talmacc in lln:
of a banqu' t, ..l 1 ...
Tiled to 1m i
S3, “Bnt.g h
kill it.”
Iu all ag*'5 o? < • i
customary to ct 1 ' 1 . >
festivity. Tlio . ::
proclam p.ticn of ;
of proKidcnts, ’ ci
the Chris!mas, tl ,
much on <.C: r < . s <•!
ble may l.ave atiiit.- !
giving day Ihm
bouxitccus. Al<1
homes of C 1 .: : -•
time cel
and festivity. F..r
on the clu hf.nc ' i
thing that has ever 1
favorite t;oi: v;hoii. •’
would become a va* .
forever has got t:,‘ :
has return' d to nis i'
world Kaid h.e ne\ r \
The old man always r
come back. II • had
him day alt^r tl: y a:.
He knew ? v
son
.i
r
:t
. — ioo g.au-
forth by Dr.
ich r the lignre
i world ia iu-
:;t i Luke T.\,
ted ealf and
vv . id it has t« i n
y >ful events by
:-r of treaties, the
. • inanguratioM
on of kings,
:i: 'e. However
♦ V : yoftr our ta-
; , cn Tiianks-
! • some thing
fla! comfortable
.’ I have at some
• i ns by .. .nquet
.iiig happon( j d
t’ ater than any-
. M il before. A
• world supposed
. ’ i and outlaw
: sightseeing and
!.» a'. l'cn«e. The
would come back,
raid his fti n would
been looking for
. : year after year,
come back. Now
a a
Le.rd I have
sin!” Th
you like to
friends?” ‘
that ( ily 1 ■
came na hi:
surges of t!i
‘Stop, Lord,
enough!* r Cli, tl.
tian religioi '! Jo :?
tame joy.! in ” 1
Joys of tliiswcild,
the gospel. The >
you. Yon have for.
d« r longm,: f »r id!,
and yet drovrned
Byron v hipt < 1 ! y
the world; V I' .:
soul while a.M .-ir ds i.f
applauaiug hir.i; ii.my II
with hatred tipidi. : poor
Becket—ul! iliu ;r..tioi> of
this w r rld cannot m a
found the
pain except
in, ‘‘Would
all immensity,
girds, it outwc i
dor and joy «>t
overtops, it umler-
ighs all the unitedsplen-
thc uuivi r:
t- :1 \.liat (hd > joy
loading tlx story
some great d.-.v c t to-.:
and who can
a remeinh; r
Lira who on
. .-art;n d sil-
:!:,s Chn.e
[ .v.m tlios?
Yir
ami j:ol<
! aim-.ig
t.'it ]a uple, who
sent
valuable
pr* scuts
to his courtiers,
but t
m Jhinks
, when a
focI conics back,
God
is so gin:
1 that to
expr ss his joy
■i ai i s ot
not
he thugs out new worlds ,nto space and
kindles up new suns and rolls among
the white robed anthems e.f th ■ redeem
ed a greater halleluiah, while with a
A i
liv
voice that reverb r,
.1»i
Ul!/
tains of baiikinei iise and i
i.i
CUV:
Tl
he v< rv
the I.
■t
having returned to hi-; father’s house
the father pv
h’.ration. There
i utuK-.i capacity, so
: _ie occasion of joy
:g. Ah, there never
day on the old
iv! Is.: the. butch
■•(! ih« housekeepers
1 ho r ricking meat.
;1 take their places,
will meve up and
’ tl t):e friends and
. e d in and an extra
to th
is in the pr.ddoi . ■' c.df th: t has boon
kept up and . . i
as to be ready for
that might c ,i
would be a p i:
homestead thim ’ i
ers do their web, .
bring in to IP • t;.k
The musiciam v.;
and the gay r:r
down the floor,
neighliors uro r;:'':
aupply is scut < t to the table of tho
aervauts. Tie. fa- . r juv -idi's at the ta
ble and says grace, and thanks God that
his long abv nt i oy is koine again. Oh,
bow they miss 1 1 in, how they
are to have him 5 r/k!
One broti'/r r mds pouting at tho
back door and r. y. This is a great ado
about nothi.’ *. Vh; i. d! >; should have
been chastis; d i:*'" aii > ;'rc '’hL \ cal
is too gcal h r him!” Lut the father
says, “Nothi: g is , > jpod; nothing is
good cnou ds.” Thcro sits the young
man, glad at 11 ■ 1 arty n eeption, hut
H shade : tf itcrCSS his
brow at the r n. mbiuuc of the trouble
he had sc: n. Ad
covers lift. Jl.: i".
he is alive ap .! J
found! Ev m .!’1
Bible set 1m tii J ’
a soul com l 1
i TJie Cvca!
First of nil, l!
<
joy. It i.i n< i m ■ i ■ i:.
Christian. Th t t
xnent in a r
ders 1 limes : •
on the fath* r'
boy comes i
throng who in
profess-'-d Cl . i
man who ir *:
bell and rvd
myself wit it!
this merniny l
more joy in m
than in nil t . <•
end I came to ■ y
perhaps a m;.:; r n ■
liberty and t; < t •<
him, aivl yon r, ii
ward you hear tl ■ ;
him, and how; cat v
rescued man; 1 ut i ;
that, compand with,
one’s evcrlc
law after him
pardon and h
You renici
■ ly now. Littlie
. was dead and
v. ii loot and he- is
j, ly does the
er.' r.akiuR when
Gi id.
;h • n -w convert’s
to become a
: mentions mo-
• " lx :i lie surren-
iy andi st time
• 1 is when the
mong tho great
•cm of our church
kt ’..s a young
rang my door-
: cannot contain
■' I came hero
.:. 1 have found
• in serving God
: iu. prodigality,
’ Yi u have seen
; 1 r li’s temporal
i f tho law after
i i 'cap:*, or after-
’ • had pardoned
- i he gleo of that
■ very tame thing,
the running for
tl c terrors of tho
id. i. hri.'t coming in to
• f sundrt me and save,
il/. r d 'in hnnj’un in his
niel of the s-.ddh
both rotle - ■
save tin o .iii'ij
world applaud",
the world in ilia
into this }:!• at i
lace, this map!
night afP
there wc re thor.sa:
the field, and thi
ccrac, one Cliri ;, .i«i]
a-dyiug under the
sing:
Thera!»: c. Ir.mt
And when lie cm
there wt re ' v t -
tVhi re :ii;"..( r;:i! n
The four was cm ':!,t u'.
the fields an cig thi ' i;u:u
was said tin: . w r • at 1
wounded nun > ■ di g th'
they came to t 1 '' v; ’
There • r< :; V'.:s Fvra.p
A’el never wiii: rins i!<
’Tis u r,. rn»v: stn
This hiMV.a.ly land i-
An Eloq'U-at Invil it
Oh, it i- a great ri li; :t n
and a great r iigion
only one heart line
that religion. Jii.-!
your i-’iudoning Go<
self ft»r time and for
yours and In ;.vi ii
yours. Some of
man of the text,
I know not t’m hi
it, you know it.
own bfittie;
- s ■ ami
his own
Pari:; \vi re
consuming
Thomas a
t!, • f i< * that
si: : ue a ninn Imppy.
i joj: oued the ]i'ini-
•n v.hii h tV.K'on Lii/. i-
i.i the r: et, “God
’ One v M'lent the
ml t!:'.' iiei.r niomen;
m i '. Oil, eomeover
joy, thir subiime so-
• ‘ nt beatitude! The
tlio nioun-
;echoed hack
i he cries,
, aud he is
hiloh, and
■'iir.ded on
<: laid not
:yit:g there
began to
delight,
he ncr
iim
to live b
i to i i
IV
! Then is
,!i b‘
r*.\ i v.
you and
lock i
ilito
face i f
i ami <
■HTT*
uder your-
ir i l< :
hi tv.
, and h** is
is yt
airs aud
till is
von,
lik«- the
young
have
gene Jar
astray.
F-f'-r.',
hut von
know
young man
went forth
into life
. thi* 1; ’.!< ml says,
his guaruia:
n angel
w nt forth with
him, and g*
-i t ing ill;
into :: fi' Id, the
guardian a:
igei aw j
a cir h: clear
around v>V :
■ ■ the ye:
:i’g ; mu . tend. It
was a l ire.'
(,f viitm
.".’■ii ! T'r. and he
must not sb
:> l,i vmi
tla-it circle. Ann
cd foi s can.!
■ io wn, h
ul- v.; re o'.'.'ig' <1 to
all'
halt at th eir.-' . r n.‘.
But one day. t- mptr s
ed hand, .st:. fcl.ed fi
that eirele v.i.li the
tempted f ul took it
fell grip w... i :)'.t
and di 1. h .. of yi n
yond that circle,
this day, by th- g
back? This I ay 1
of salvation, "'he
hours of Qu i a A;:'
eloel: sti in . 1-Tatdi
heipltss sickiKK , :
hi r head or :.i a o
waiting for f!ii- In
of state slu-uld cat
and worried and
in.'' )i r.r, am! *
the nur-e, in tl.e
power, v.hicii deli:
one, she uioso and
clock and stood
clock wlun th n
nurs; said, ‘‘Do yo
iar about that
answer, but s; en ■«
y r- ”.M not pass.
with dlanu ud-
rth and crossed
hi::il, and tho
".v i i' that one
i - :id t!i< circle
tenped l;e-
i in if like
d, to sfep
vihour
T.
r.ld
d tiv
from the everlasting g
“This, my son, was dec.
alive again!”
lie Will Const I’.m
At the ojKming of the exposition in
New Orleans I :;a\v a JT .vicau flutist, j
and he played the solo, and tia n after
ward the eight or ten Lauds-of music,
uccompuuieu by the gre at organ, came
in, but the sound of that one flute as
compared with all the orchestras was
greater than all the combined joy of the
universe when compared with the re
sounding heart of Almighty God. For
ten years a father wi nt three times a
day to the depot. Ilis son went off in
aggravating circumstances, but the fa
ther said, “He will come back.” Tho
strain was too much and his mind part
ed, and three times a day the father
went. In the early morning he watched
the train, its arrival, tho stepping out
of the passengers and then the depar
ture of the train. At neon lie was there
again watching the advance of the train,
watching the departure. At night ho
was there again, watching the coming,
watching the going, fur tea years, lie
was sure his son would com'.’ back. God
has been watching and w ;::i:igfor some
cf you, my brothers, 10 years, 20 years,
30 years, 40 years, p< rimps GO years,
waiting, waiting, watching, watching,
and if now the prodigal should come
home, vhat a seen: of ghului .-s and fes
tivity, and how the great Fatl.i r’s heart
would rejoice at your coming home.
You will come, some of you, will you
not? You will, you will.
1 notice also tin t win n a prodigal
comes home there is ihe jo, of the min
isters of religion. Oh, it is a grand
thing to preach this gospel! I know
there has been a great deal said about
the trials and the hardships of the Chris
tian ministry. I wish : omebody would
write a good rousing Look about the
joys of the Christian ministry. Since 1
entered the profession I have seen more
of the goodness of God than I will ho
able to celebrate in all i teruity. I know
some boast about tin ir equilibrium, and
they do not rise into enthusiasm, aud
they do not break down with emotion,
but I confers to you plainly that when
I see a man coming to God and giving
up his sin I feel in body, mind and soul
a transport. When I .i man bound
hand, and foot in evil luii it emauieiput-
ed, I rejoice over it us though it were
my own emancipation.
V.Tiy CI, r-y.i.i'n Are Lived.
When in one communion (r*. ice, such
throngs of young and old stood up and
in the pn si nee of heaven and earth and
hell attested their all* giance to Jesus
Christ, I felt r. joy something akin to
that which th* apnstl< d .-••rxl-es when
he rays, “Whether iu tin
tell, nr out of tho* bid;
God kuoweth. ” Oh, han not mini-o rb
a right to r< joi'-c* win i a pr digal eonw.«
boini ? Th y bit w ti.' t ; ipet i nd
ought th y not he glad of tli - g itli. ring
Tin y jjieiiti d
ought tlx y no:
whin thirsty sinus ]>lu:.ge a
fur the water biooks? Tiny •
raying, “All things an no.
not io n joiee vlr
r-.V
fr\
cf tho Lost
rupply, and
ought they
;CS Wh'
: ; y I cannot
eaiiiiot t- 11;
to the full
to rejoi c
- the hurt
time forth,
• ready”—
n the orod-
great ntory tells
liis fingers to hi
“Life, life, et
driver w in': t :
iug h; l to :-'ru;
ly, suddenly v
inberitanci w . < ’
joy amount’::g ?•-
that is a teuaii *’ i y
experience cf <*:. v
his hands tir: title ii
raptures, the f*j1( nu
bo can truly i>:i;.*,
mine, its t' *: : :
•re mine, it -i *
no tame thin;
It is a merry:
of tho fatted ealf. It is a jubilee. You
know the Bible : w r compares it to a
funeral, but alway, ei .rnpun s it to some
thing delightful, ii i more apt to lie
compand to a banquet than anything
else. It is compand in th;' Bible to wa
ter, bright, li” g water, to the morn
ing, roseate, fiieworked, ir/?untain trans
figured morning.
I wish I could today take all the Bi
ble expressions a' nit pardon, and pew e,
and lift-/ and < fort, and hope, smd
heaven, and twist tl vin into one gar
land and put it on the brow of the
humblest child of God in this assem
blage and i ry, “V, < .-r it, wear it now,
Tver.r it forever, son of God, daughter
of tho Lord ( d Almighty!” Oh, the
joy of the new convert! <Jh, the glad
ness of the( 1 ristian Fi rvice! You have
seen sometimes nun in a religious as-
senibly get up iim: give In > experience.
Well, Paul gave his experience. He
arose in tho pre.--nee of two churches,
the church on earth and tho church in
heaven, undh: Fail, “Now this is my ex
perience—Ft r ;owful, y t always rejoic
ing, poor, yet i .’ m many rich, hav
ing nothing, y ' ,
If the peupii- : '
< . tie julgrim put
: - and ran, crying,
l !if';!” A poor car
- ( , i ftcr years bav
in support his fami-
ifonned
; vi
n r.e
dis i
to bci nnu> a Christian,
i’::!,;:. It is the killing
seem- in i very in -n i
. i: : nie o: you
would ri e f: e ’
ii - : li iliari.r end
come out fiuin y ’ i’
!::*.i:;:i of sin anil
look on the cicek of
your bi Ft iny titis
moment, you weni :
: e ui.d hear somc-
thing yon hare m ' •
u ( a J eard Ik l ore.
and every tick cf tl.*
■ i’i.’.!; -, ami '-very
stroki of the hear ?n
id 'ry swing ( f
ti.:- j>. nduhnu \.i t.n!
■ay, “Now, ika’,
Low, low! ’ Olx, po*.
m home to your
Father’s hc.isc! Cor
; • home, O pn dl-
gal, from the vaildi i:
! v < in; l:oiii»*,
igal sits down at the banquet? L fe in
surance men will all tell y .u that miu-
isteis 11 religion, as a ci. •, )i\f! longer
tlian any other. It js th • :’an.sties of
all those who ealeulua
longevity that mini t.:
class, live longer than .,
is it? There is more
nervous system than iu
come homo!
But I notice
that . Iv n the p'vxligal
till
.t a largo
came, thei
o wits tin fi.t’r r
> v. 1 i *
did
the:
r ! was a
J.Gt t>H t
him witii any
* V
i 1 >. i
“1
low
hit:
eilt, but
do you do
? ’ He did not
C IT!
n* nut
aud
•.red
will: the
siy; “You
are* unfit t;> o
rilci
. (3o
and
e hi
j.s put in
wash in
tho trough ly
tho
\voIl,
and
the
joys, the
then you
can come iu.
\V<
liuvo
had
he:
:v< n, and
(itough trouhli! with y«
,, j*
Ah,
no!
mansions an
When tin
proprietor of t.
.at
pro-
me,
its songs
claimed f
•stival, it was
an (
-ut hurst of
of”
Oh, it is
a father’s
love and a fail
n-r’f
joy.
God
g nil things. ”
j ) uu.-'o knew t he
: i religion, they
ito the kingdom (if
nt. When Daniel
Bandemau wn. dying ? cholera, his ut-
(imdaut said, “liuvo you much pain;”
joys of the <
would all pa t (A
\ God the in. xt im
is your Father. J lu’ee not umeli sym-
1 puthy v.itli til' d'-.-eiiption of thsl I
I sometimes hear, a- tin ugh hewer” a
Turkish -nltan, hard and unsympathet-
ie, and lish nigg j:ot to thu cry of his
subject'. A man told me he saw’ in one
of tho eastern lands n king riding along,
and two mm wire in altercation and
one charged the other witli having eaten
his rice, and the king F..;id, “Then slay
! the man and by pesi mortem examina-
1 tion find whether lie has eaten tlicrico.”
! And he was s’; in. Ah, the enu lly of a
j scene like that! Onr God is not a sultan,
! not u despot, but a Father—kind, lov-
I ing, forgiving—and Jk-makes all heaven
1 ring agn n when a pmligal conn s hack.
“I have no pleasure,” he says, “in the
! death <f him that clicth. ” All may be
! Raved. If a man do s not get to heaven,
it i« beeaiiFi- he will not go there. No
difference the color, no difference tho
history, no difference the antecedents,
I lio difference the surroundings, no dif-
1 ference tlie sin. When tlio white horses
' of Christ’s victory are brought out to
i celebrate the eternal triumph, y'ou may
| ride one of them, and as God is greater
than all, hi: joy is greater, and when a
1 soul conn s back there is in Ids heart
the surging of a.i inf -iiie ocean < f glad-
j ness, and to i xpre^i that glailm ss it
i takes all the. rivers of p!ea-:ure, nil the
I thrones of jiomp mid all the ages of
j eternity, ii in a joy deejier tliau all
depth and liigher than a’l height and
wider than all width aud vaster than
ipou lniH.au
i i r-ligiou, as u j
iny other. Why :
liiaft upon the
any other pro- j
f ssiou, and tliei/ toil is most exhaust- |
ing. 1 have seen ininis'c.-rs kept on mis- j
( ruble stipends by pursinonious congre- |
gutious who wonder dut th • dulliu ■ sol
the sermon when the men of God were
perplexed almost fe iHith by que’tioiif
of livelih(MKl and had not mough nutri
tious food to ke p any tiro in their‘tem
perament. No fuel, no lire. I .have some
times seen the in.-i b- <,: the life < f many
of the American cliT/vineri, never ac- |
cepting their hosjiiiality l * cause they
cannot afford it, but I huv wen them
struggle on with saiarics of *;»00 or tjffiOfi
a year—the average 1 >.. than that—
their struggle v;ell d« pict -d by the west
• ru missionary who says in a letter:
“Thank you for the la.-1. remittance. I'n-
til it came we had not any meat in our
house fox’ one year, and all last winter,
although it was it s v re w inter, oui
childn n wore their summer clothen. ”
And these men of God I fmd in differ
ent parts of the land struggling against
annoyance and exasperations innumer
able, some of them week after we( k en
tertaining agents who have maps or
lightning rods to Fell and submitting
themselves to all styles of annoyance, t
and yet without complaint and cheerful
of soul. How do you account for the
fact that these life insurance men tell
us that ministers as a class live longer
than any other? L is U’causd of tho joy
of their work, the joy of the harvest ;
field, the joy of greeting prodigals home
to their Father’s house Oh, we are in
sympathy with all innocent hilarities.
We can enjoy a hearty song and we can |
be merry with the merriest, but those of
us who have toiled in the service are :
ready to testify that all these jo; s an
tame compared with the satisfaction of
seeing men cut* r the kingdom of God.
The great eras of every ministry are the
outpourings (if the Holy Ghost, and 1
thank God I have si i :i 1(5 of thcuA
Thunk God, thank God!
A Great Coutniu.-iion.
I notice a.’so wh< u the prodigal comes
back all earnest Christians rejoice. If
you stood on Mautauk point and there
was a hurricane at sea. urd it was blow
ing towar-l the shore, and u vessel
clashed into the rocks, an 1 you saw peo
ple get ashore in the litebeats, and the
very last man got on the reeks iu safety,
you could not control your joy. And it
is a glad time when the church of God
sees men who are tossed on the ocean of
their sins plant their feet on the rock
Christ Jesus. Oh, w hen prodigals come
borne, just hear the Christians sing.
Just hear the Christians j ray. It is not
a stereotyped supplication we have
heard over and over again for 20 years,
but a putting of the case iu the hands of
God with an imixirtunate pleading. No
long prayers. Men never pray at great
length unless they have nothing to say
and their hearts are hard and cold. All
the prayers in the Bible that- were an
swered were short prayers. “God be
merciful to me a sinner.” “Lord, that
I may receive my sight.” “Lord, save
me, or I perish. ’ ’
The longest prayer, Solomon’s prayer
at the dedication of tho temple, less than
eight minutes in length according to the
ordinary rate of enunciation! And just
hiar them pray now that the prodigals
are coming home. Just see them shake
hands. No putting forth of the four tips
of the fingers in a formal way, but a
hearty graqi where the muscles of the
heart seem to clinch the Augers of one
hand around the other hand. And then
see those Christian faces. How illumi-
nat< d they are! And see that old man get
up, and, with the same voice that he
sang 50 years ago in tho old country
meeting house, say, “Now, Lord, lettest
thou thy servant depart iu peace, for
mine eyes have seen thy salvation.”
There was a man of Keith w ho was
hurled into prison iu time of persecu
tion, and one day he got off his shackles,
aud he came and stood by the prison
door, aud when the jailer was opening
the door with one stroke he struck down
t!u* man who hud incarcerated him. 1
Passing along the streets of London, he
wondered w here his family was. He did
not dare to ask, lest he excite suspicion, 1
but, passing along a little way from the
prison, he saw a Keith tankard, a cup
that b' longed to the family from gener
ation to generation—he saw it in a win- j
dow. His family, hoping that some day
he would get clear, came and lived as
near as they could to the prison house,
and they set that Keith tankard iu the
window, hoping he would see it, and he j
came along and saw* it and knocked at ;
the door and went in, and the long sep- j
arated family were all together again, j
Oh, if you would start for the kingdom
of God this hour, I think some of you
would find nearly all your friends aud j
nearly all your families around the holy i
tankard of the holy communion—fa- !
thers, mothers, brothers, sisters—around
that sacred tankard which commemo
rates the love of Jesus Christ our Lord.
It will be a great communion day when ;
your whole family sits around the sacred
tankard. One on earth. One in heaven.
Once more I remark that when the
prodigal gets back the inhabitants of
heuv. n kt i p festal. I am very certain of
it. If you have never seen a telegraph
chart, you have no idea how many cities j
are conm cted together, and how many
lands. Nearly all the neighborhoods of
the earth f-cm reticulated, and news
flies in :n city to city aud from conti
nent to cont’iu nt. But more rapidly go
tii!* tiun.gs from earth to heaven, and
wh( a a pnxligal returns it is announced
h: ion: the throne of God. And if these
smiI.s now present should enter the Ling- |
d< ri ti. re would he some ( lie in the
h'avi nly kingdom to say: “That’s my
father,” “That's my mother,” “That’s
my wn,’' “That's the one I used to pray
for,” “That’s the one for whom I wept
so many tears,” and one soul would
say, “Hosanna!” and another soul would
sir.’, “Halleluiah!”
I
PliftM-il with the news, the viintH below
lu Funs* tli'-’r toiiKUcs employ.
Bey md tho tikioii the tulim's no,
And heaven ta filled with joy.
Nor ungel'i eon their joy contain.
But kiudio with new tiro.
Tlio simier lost id found, t!r-y feinx,
And strike tha sounding lyre.
At the banquet of Lncullussat Cicero
the orator, at the Macedonian festival
sat Pkiiip the conqueror, at the Gre
cian banquet cut Socrates the philoso
pher. bu* at our Father’s table sit all ,
the n turn' ll prodigals, more than con
querors. The table is so wide its leaves
reach ; cross seas and lauds. Its guests
are thi redt eined of earth and the glori- |
tied e.f heaven. The ring of God's for-
givenens on every hand. The robe of a
Saviour’s righteousness adroop from ev
ery shoulder. The wine that glows in
the enps is from the bowls of 10,000 ]
sacraments. Lot all tho redeemed of
earth and all the glorified of heaven rise >
anil with gleaming chalices drink to the
return of a thousand prodigals. Hiug,
sing, sing! “Worthy is the Lamb that
wiii slain to receive blessing ami riches
ami honor and glory and power, world
without i ml. ” That scene of juhilence
eoiie s out 1 eforc me this moment as in
a sort of picture gallery. All heaven in
pictures.
Hero*-* and Heroines.
L/xik ! Lixik! There is Christ. Cnyp |
painted him for earthly galleries, and
Correggio anil Tintoretto and Benjamin
West and Di re painted him for earthly
galleries, but all those pictures are
( clipf-cil by this masterpiece of heaven.
Christ! Christ! There is Paul, the hero
of the Sanhedrim, and of Agrippa’d
courtroom, and of Mars hill, and of
Nero’s infamy, sinking his chained fist
in the very face of teeth chattering roy
alty. H. re is Joslma, the fighter of
Bethoron and Gibcou, the man that
postponed sundow n. And here is Vashti,
the profligacy of the Persian court un
able to n move her veil of modesty or
tend it or lift it. Ami along the corri
dors of this picture gallery I find other
great heroes and heroines—David with
his harp, and Miriam with the cymbals, I
and Z (hariah with the scroll, and St.
John with the seven vials, anil the res-
^urreetion aagi 1 with the trumpet. On
; farther in the corridors see the faces of
our loved om s, the corgh gone from the
throat, the wanness gone from the cheek,
tJie wearim s gone from the limbs, tho
Irtngnor gone from the eye. Let us go up
m*d greet them. Let us go up and em
brace them. Lot us go up aud live with
them. We will! We will!
From this hilltop I catch a glimpse of
those hilltops while all sorrow and
sighing shall bo done away. Oh, that
God would make that world to us a
i reality! Fait.li in that world helped old
Dr. Tyng when he stood by tho easitet of
his dead son, whose arm had been tom
off in the thrashing mn' hino, deatli en
suing, and Dr. Tyng, with infinite com
posure, preached tha funeral sermon of
nis own beloved son. Faith iu that
world helped Martin Luther without
one tear to put away iu death his favor
ite child. Faith in that world helped
the dying woman to see on the sky the
letter “W,” ami they asked her what
she supposed that letter “W’oii the sky
meant. “Oh,” she said, “don’t you
know? ‘W’ Ft:.mis fer’Welcome. ’ ” Oh,
heaven, swing open thy gates! Oh, heav
en, roll upon us sonic of the sunshine
anthems! Oh. heaven, flash upon us tho
vision of thy lusti r! An old writer tells
us of a ship coining from India to
France. The crew was made up of
French sailors who had been long from
home, and as the ship came along tho
coast of France the men skipped tho
deck with glee, ami they pointed to tho
spires of the churches where they onco
worshiped and to tho hills where they
had played in b; yhccd. But when the
ship came into port, and these sailors
saw father aud mother and wife and
loved ones on the wharf, they sprung
ashore and rushed up the banks into the
city, and the captain had to get another
crew to bring the ship to her moorings.
So heaven will after awhile come so
fully iu sight, we can sec its towers, its
mansions, its hills, and as we go into
port and our loved ones shall call from
that shining shore and speak our names
we will spring to the beach, leaving this
old ship of a world to be managed by
another crew, our rough voyaging of the
seas ended forever.
0! the Face.
Mrs. Laura EL Mims.of Smithville.Ga.,
“J
color
began
ing all efforts to 'check it. My
eye became terribly
inflamed, and was ao
swollen that for quit*
a while I could not
see. The doctors
said I had Cancer of
the most malignant
type, and after ex
hausting their efforts
without doing me
any good, they gave
op the case as hopeless. When in
formed that my father bad died from
the same disease, they said I must die,
as hereditary Cancer was incurable.
“At this crisis, I was advised to try
S.S.S., and in a short while the Cancer
began to discharge and continued to do
so for three months, then it began to
heal. I continued the medicine a w hile
longer until the Cancer disappeared en
tirely. This was several years ago and
there has been no return of the disease.’*
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Co. Atlanta, Ga.
Spring is Here.
Are you ready for the warmer
weather, with its prostrating, weak
ening. debiliating Gleets?
Is your blood rich and pure?
Are your nerves strong?
Is your appetite good, your diges
tion perfect, your physical system
exactly right?
Few can truthfully say “yes” in
answer to these questions.
During the colder season, humors
have accumulated in the blood. Close
confinement, diminished perspiration,
the use of hearty foods, fats and
sweets, have maae the blood impure.
Spring humors—eruptions, boils, pim
ples—will he the result unless the
blood is speedily mid thoroughly pu
rified witii Hood’s Sarsaparilla. A
course of this medicine will prevent
and cure the kidney and liver troubles
which are so prevalent in the spring,
with accompanying headaches, bilious
attacks, loss of appetite, coated
tongue, lame back, tired feeling and
other disagreeable and painful symp
toms.
If scrofula poisons tne system,
causing swollen glands, running sores,
discharges from the ears, eruptions
on the skin, these troubles will be
sure to manifest themselves with in
creased malignity in the spring.
Hood’s Sarsaparilla eradicates the
last vestige of scrofula and is abso
lutely necessary ut this season to pre
vent these disagreeable eruptions.
Dyspepsia, indigestion, nausea, pain
after eating, resulting from impure
blood and low vitality in the spring,
are promptly relieved by Hood’s Sar
saparilla. A fals • sense of security
and a disregard of the signs and warn
ings of failing heuith in the manifes
tations of impure blood, often lead to
sad results.
Ninety per cent, of all the people
need to take Hood’s Sarsaparilla now.
Winter has left them with impure,
impoverished blood, weak nerves, de-
biliated anil run down systems. Be
wise this spring and make your blood
pure, rich and nourishing with Hood’s
Sarsaparilla. Then you will be
strong, vigorous, cnergiric and hope
ful. and you wiii avoid that tired
feeling as weil uf more serious illness
later ir. the season.
A. L. HAMMETT,
MERCHANDISE BROKER,
GAFFNEY, S. C.
Correspondenc; Solicited.
Office Over A. J. Settlemyer.
For Sale
12 spli-mli 1 Mulev
t Family llurs'-.
lOSliiin-s t.'i- Lliarl i'iitt<>:i Mill Stuck.
JO Sliai i-> Tlicapau < 'niton Mill Slock.
ijSliarc- UicM.m.l I'ot ton Mill Stock.
2 Shares Victor Col ton Mill Stock.
'fil Slciri > liim.- .timc Springs Lime ('o.
stock.
Tin- I>r. Holmes s loom liousc with lincgar-
ilcn. utilities anil out liuilillngs uttuclieib
.*i room collate on Linn stone St.
:j room eoltajic on Gaines St. with splcmlid
yanlen.
2 vacant lots en Gaines St.
4 vacant loisi'ti Factory Hill.
1 spli-inlid fai m containing l"t acres2!4 miles
from Gattm y.
I S0-acrc farm one mile from GatTncy.
I house ami -“t acres located at Limestone
Sprlnjfs-
F Af»MS Ti) lit.N'T. S" vci al splendid farms
toren*. Appiy to F.G. Stacy.
Insurance!
I rrprcsc'.t mine lull the I test of Fire.
Life and A ciih nt I nsuranee Companies.
Am prcpai I to furnish Cyclone and
Tornado Insurance at mis.crate cost.
Your patloiiaqc will tic duly appreciated.
A New
Candidate!
I hereby announce myself
a candidate for your trade. I
carry a stock of Dry Goods,
Notions, Hats, Shoes, Grocer
ies,Tobaccos, Crockery, Hard
ware and all goods usuallv
kept in a general store. Let
me give you
A Few Prices:
Coffee, 6 to 8 lbs for $1.
Tobacco, 20 to 85 cts per lb.
Good yd. wide Sheeting 41 to
5 cents per yard.
Best Cotton Plaids'41 to 5 cts
per yard.
China Plates and Teas 30 to
40 cents per set.
All goods at the lowest prices
they can be sold. If you will
elect me I will make you glad
you did so.
Respectfully yours,
I. M. PEELER.
F. U. STACY.
Notice
3 cV 0>.
have a nice stock of Watch
es, Clocks and Jewelry to
sell at reasonable prices.
They handle only first-class
goods, and every article is
guaranteed as represented.
Watch, Clo?k and Jewelry
Repairing a specialty. All
work guaranteed.
At DuPre Drug Co’s.
Shingles!
DRESSED LUMBER !
Sash, Doors, Blinds, Brackets,
Mouldings, and All Kinds
of Building Materials,
For Sale at Lowest
Cash Prices.
No charge will he made for infor
mation as to amount nquircl for
building.
Cull on
L. BAKER.
Hardware.
/<•
Thrri- is no fiirm nr liousi'hohl which
iIih-n not iii-ikI mon* or loss IIhfiIwuro.
Wlillo t hey i In not usens imicli us h I thick-
smith. c:ir|s-ii*'-'- or iiihcMim' shop, still
they need sonu- Inmltvnre.
Our Line of Farm and
Household Hardware is Complete
tmil wo cun help hoautify your homo or
farm wIGi many ttsoful Ihlntrs. Our
prlcos. too. uro its low us i-. oonsislont
with liom m doaltim-. anil wo alwaysiruur-
anioo sat Isfiictton.
When In uoo<! of Hurd an- call on the
Smith Hardware Co.