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Y~ THK LEDGER: GAFFNEY, 8. C., DECEMBER 23. 1867. 9 N PERFECT ACCORD. R. TALMAGE ON AN INTERESTING SUBJECT. CfoologUta and the Ulble Agree—Scripture ! Confirm* the Uenearche* of Scientists. ! Story of the I>e)og« and Sinking of the i Mountains. |Copyright, 1S9T, by American Press Asso ciation.] Washington, Deo. 19.—Tho throngs noniing to Dr. Taltnago’s preaching services at tho First Presbyterian church are all the time increasing and far beyond the capacity of his church to hold. In this sermon he discusses a sub ject interesting to all—viz, “The Geolo gy of tho Dible; or, God Among the Bocks.*’ The test js II Samuel vi, 6, 7: "And when they came to Nachon's threshing door Uzzah put forth his hand to the ark of God and took hold of it, for the oxen shook it. And tho anger of the Lord was kindled against Uzzah, and God smote him there for his error, and there he died by the ark of God. ” A band of music is coming down the road, cornets blown, timbrels struck, harps thrummed and cymbals clapped, all led on by David, who was himself a musician. They are ahead of a wagon on whicli is the sacred box called the ark. The yoke of oxou drawing the wagon imperiled it Some critics say that the oxen kicked, being struck with the driver’s goad, but my knowledge of oxen leads mo say that if on a hot day they see a shadow of a treo or wall they are apt to suddenly shy olf to get the coolness of tho shadow. I think those oxen so suddenly turned *hat the sacred box seemed about to/Mipset aud be thrown to tho ground. Uzzah rushed forward and laid hold of the ark to beep it upright, but ho had no right to do so. A special command had been given by tho Lord that no one save the priest un der any circumstances ahou Id touch that box. Nervous aud excited and irrever ent, Uzzah disobeyed when ho took hold of the ark, and he died as a consequence. In all ages, and never more so than in our own day, there are good people all tho time afraid that tho Holy Bible, whicu is the sacred ark of our time, will be npset, and they have been a long whilo afraid that science, and es pecially geology, would overthrow it While we are not forbidden to touch the holy book, aud, on tho contrary, are urged to fondle aud study it, any one who is afraid of the overthrow of tho book is greatly offending tho Lord with his unbelief. The oxen have not yet been yoked which can upset that ark of the world’s salvation. Written by the Lord Almighty, he is going to protect it nntil its mission is fulfilled aud there shall ho no more need of a Bible, because all its prophecies will luive been fulfilled aud the human race will have exchanged worlds. Perfect Accord. A trumpet aud a violin are very dif ferent instruments, but they may be t played in perfect accord. So the Bible account of tho creation of tho world and the geological account are different —one story written on parchment and the other on the rocks, and yet in per fect and eternal accord. The word “day,” repeated in tho first chapter of Genesis, has thrown into paroxysms of criticism many exegetes. Tho Hebrew word “yom” of the Bible means some times whut wo call a day and some times it means ages. It may mean 34 hours or 100,000,000 years. The or dor of creation us written in the book of Genesis is the order of creation dis covered by geologists’ crowbar. So many Uzzahs have boon nervously rush ing about for fear the strong oxen of scientific discovery would upset the Bi ble that I went somewhat apprehensive ly to look : nto the mutter, when I found that the Bible and geology agree in saying that first were built the rooks, then the plants greened tho earth, then marine creatures were created, from minnow to whale, then the wings aud throats of aerial choirs were colored and turn d, and tho quadrupeds began to bleat and bellow and neigb. What is all this fuss that has been filling the church and the world concerning a fight between Moses and Agassiz? Thoro is no fight at all. But is not the geolog ical impression that the world was mil lions of years building antagonistic to tho theory of one week’s creation in Genesis? No. A great house is to be built. A man Stakes years to draw to the spot the foun dation stone and tho heavy timbers. The house is about done, but it is not fin ished for comfortable residence. Sud denly the owner calls in npholsterers, plumbers, gas fittu/s, paper hangers, and in one week it is ready for ooenpancy. Now, it requires no stretch of imagina tion to realize that God could have tak en millions of years for the bringing of tho rocks and the timbers of this world together, yet only one week more to make it inhabitable and to furnish it for human residence. Remember also that all up and down the Bible the language of tho times was used—com mon parlance—and it was not always to be taken literally. Just as we say every day that tho world is ronnd when it is not round. It is spheroidal—flattened at the poles and protuberant at the equa tor. Professor Bnell, with bis chain of triangles, and Protessor Varin. with the shortened pendulum of his clock, found it was not ronnd, but we do not become critical of any one who says the world is ronnd. Let os deal as fairly with Moses or Job as we do with each other. Geology aud Scripture. But for years good people feared geol ogy, and without any imploration on their part apprehended that the rocks and mountains would fall on them un til Hugh Miller, the elder of 8t. John’s Presbyterian church in Edinburgh and parishioner of Dr. Guthrie, came forth and told the world that there was no contradiction between the mountains and /the church, and O. M. Mitchell, a brilliant luuiuivr before he became brig- adieAgeur.ral, dying at Beaufort, 8. O. our civil war, took the plat form Ills map of the strata of rook in tbs presence of great audiences, and Professor Alaaauder Winch*U of Mich igan university aud Professor Taylor Lewis of Union college showed that tho “without fsan aud void” of tho first chapter of Genesis was the very chaos out of whiuh the world was formulated, the bands of God packing together the laud and tossing up the mountains into great heights and flinging down the seas into their great depths. Before God gets throagh with this world there will hardly be a book of tho Bible that will not fi«d con fin nation either in archaeology me geology. Exhumed Baby lon, Ninovoh, Jerusalem, Tyro' and Egyptian hieroglyphics are crying out in the ears <d the world, “The Bible is right—all right—everlastingly right!” Geology is saying the same thing, not only oonfirmiug the truth about tho original creation, but confirming so many passages of the Scriptures that I can only slightly refer to them. But you ko not really believe that story of the deluge and the sinking of the mountains under the wave? Toll ns something we can believe. “Believe that,” says geology, "for how do you account for those seashclls and sea weeds and skeletons of sea animals found on the top of some of the highest mountains? If the waters did not some times rise about the mountains, bow did thoso seasbells and seaweeds aud skeletons of sea animals get there? Did yon pnt them there?” But now you do not really believe that story about the storm of fi: ^ and brimstone whelming Sodom and Go morrah and enwrapping Lot’s wife in snch saline inevnstutions that she halt ed a sack of salt? For the confirmation of that story the geologist goes to that region, and after trying in vain to take a swim in the lake, so thick with salt he cannot «wlzn It—the lake beneath which Sodom and Gomorrah lie buried— one drop of the water so foil of snlpbur and brim stows that it stings yonr tongue, and for hours you cannot get rid of tbe nauseating drop—the scien tist then digging down and finding sul phur on top of sulphur, brimstone on top of brimstone, while all round there are jets and crags and peaks of salt, and if one of tham did not become tbe sar cophagus of Lot’s wife they show you how a human being might in that tem pest have been halted and packed into a white monument that would defy the ages. But now you do not really believe that New Testament story about tbe earthquake at the time Christ was crucified, do you? Geology digs down into Mount Calvary and finds the rocks ruptured aud aslant, showing the work of an especial earthquake for that mountain, and an earthquake which did not touch the surrounding region. Go and look for yourself and see there u dip and cleavage of rocks as nowhere else on the planet, geology thns an nouncing an especial earthquake for the greatest tragedy of all the centuries— the assassination of the Son of God Tha World ob Fir*. But you do not really believe that story of the burning of our world at the last day? Geology digs down and finds that the world is already en fire and that the center of this globe is incandes cent, molten, volcanic, a horning coal, horning oat toward the surface, and the internal fires have so far reached the outside rim that I do not see how tbe world is to keep from complete confla gration nntil the prophecies concerning it are fnlfilled. The lava poured forth from the mouths of Vesuvius Monnl Etna and Cotopaxi and Kilauea is only the regurgitation from an awful inflam mation thousands of miles deep. Tbers are mines in Pennsylvania and in sever al parts of the world that have been on fire for many years. These oeal mines burning down aud the internal fires of the earth burning np, after awhile these two fires, tbe descending and the ascend ing, will meet, and then will occur tbs nniversal conflagration of which tbs Bible speaks, when it says, “The ele ments shall melt with fervent heat; ths earth also, and the works that are there in shall bo burned up. ” Instead of dis believing the Bible story about tbe final conflagration, since I have looked a lit tle into geology, finding that its explo ration are all In tbe line of confirmation of that prophecy, I wonder how this old craft of a world can keep sailing on much longer. It is like a ship on fire at sea, tbe fact that the hatches are kept down the only reason that it does not become one complete blaze—masts on fire, ratlines on fire, everything from cutwater to taffrail on fire. After geolo gy has told us how near tbe internal fires have already burned tbeir way to ward the surface it ought not to be a surprise to us at any time to hear tbe ringing of the fire bells of a nniversal conflagration. Oh, I am so glad that geology has been born! Astronomy is grand becanse it tells ns about other worlds, but I must say that I am more interested iu our world than in any other world, aud geology tells us all about what it was, its cradle and whet will be its grave, and this glorious geol ogy is proving itself more and more tho friend of theology. Thank God for the testimony of the rocks, the Ten Com mandments announced among the split rocks of 8iuai, the greatest sermon of Christ preached on the basaltio rocks of the mount of beatitudes, the Saviour dying on the rucks of Golgotha and buried umid tbe limestone rocks of Joseph’s sepulcher, the last day to be ushered in with a rending of rocks and onr blessed Lord suggestively entitled the “Rock of Ages. ” I this day proclaim the banns of a marriage between geolo gy aud theology, the rugged bridegroom and the fairest of bridea Let them join their hands, and “whom God hath joined together let not man pat asun der.” HI*tor/ of tho Forth. If anything in tbe history or condi tion of the earth seems for the time contradictory of anything in geology, you must remember that geology is all the time correcting itself and more and more coming to harmonization with *0 great book. In the last century tUi l reach Scientific association printed t list of 80 theories of geology which had been adopted and afterward rejected. Lyoll, tbe scientist, announced 50 theo ries of geology that had bevu believed iu aud afterward thrown overboard. Meanwhile tbe story of tbe Bible Las not changed at all, and if geology has cast out between 100 and 200 theories which it once considered established we can afford to wait until tho last theory of geology antagonizing divine revela tion shall have been given up. Now, iu this discourse upon the geology of tho Bible or God among the rocks I charge all agitated aud affrighted Uzzahs to calm tbeir pulses about the upsetting of the Scriptures. Let me see. For sev eral hundred years the oxen have been jerking the ark this way aud that and pulling it over rough places and trying to stick it in tbe mod of derision and kicking with all tbe power of their hoofs against the sharp goads and try ing to pull it into the cool shade away from the heats of retribution from a God "who will by no moans clear the guilty.” Yet have you not noticed that the book has never been npset? The on ly changes made iu it were by its learn ed friends in the revision of the Scrip- tures. Tbe book of Genesis has been thundered against by tbe mightiest bat teries, yet yon cannot today find iu all the earth a copy of the Bible which bus not the 60 chapters of the first copy of tbe book of Genesis ever printed, start ing with the words, “In tbe beginning God” and closing with Joseph’s coffin. Fierce attack on the book of Exodus has been made becanse they said it whs cruel to drown Pharaoh aud tho story of Mount Sinai was improbable. But tbe book of Exodus remains intact, and not one of ns, considering tbe cruelties which he would have contiuned among the brick kilns of Egypt, would have thrown Pharaoh a plank if we hud seen him drowning. And Mount Hinai is to day a pile of tossed and tumbled basalt, recalling the cataclysm of that moun tain when the law was given. And as to those Ten Commandments, all Ro man law, all German law, all English law, all American law worth anything are squarely founded on them. So mighty assault for centuries has been made on the book of Joshua. It was said that the story of the detained snn and moon is an insult to modern astronomy, but that book of Joshua may be found today in the chapel of every university iu America, in defiance of any telescope projected from the roof of that university. The book of Jonah has been the target of ridicule for tbe small wit of ages, but there it stands, with it* fonr chapters inviolate, while geology puts up in its museums remains of sea monsters capable of doing more than the one which swallowed tbe recreant prophet. There stand the 1,089 chapter* of tbe Bible, notwithstanding all the attacks of ages, aud there they will stand nntil they shrivel, up in tbe final fires, which geologists sl y are already kindled and glow hotter than tho fur naces of an ocean steamer as it puts out from New York narrows for Hamburg or Sontbampton. I should not wonder if from the crypt of ancient < ities the in spired manuscripts of MatJiew, Mark, Luke and John, in their ow|> cbirogra- phy, would be taken, and Tjbe epistles which Paul dictated to his amauuonsi* as well as the one in the apostle's own handwriting. At tbe same’ratio of archeological and geological confirma tion of the Scriptures, tbs tiue will come when the truth of the Bible will no more be doubtod than the common almanac, which tells you the days and the months of tbe year, and the unbe lievers will bo accounted harmless lu- natios. Forward the tsleaoope and the spectroscope and tbe chemical batteries and critically examine the ostracoids of the ocean depths and the bones of the groat mammals on tbe gravely hilltops, aud tbe mightier, and tbe grander, and tbe deeper, and tbe higher tbe explora tions tbe better for our cause. As ssrs as tbe thunderbolts of tbe Almighty are stronger than tbe steel pens of agnostics, tbe ark of God will ride on unhurt, and Uzzah need not fear any disasters upset ting. Tbe apocalyptic angel flying throagh tbe midst of heaven, proclaim ing to all nations and kindred and peo ple and tougnes tbe onsearobable riches of Jesus Christ are mightier thon the shying off of a yoke of oxen. Mo Dilation to Religion. The geology of tbe Bible shows that our religion is not a namby pamby, nerveless, dilettantish religion. Jt was projected aud has been protected by the God of tbe rocka Religion a bal. J Ob, yes. Rel^iou a soothing power? Ob, yes. Religion a beautiful senti ment? Oh, yea But we must have a God of the rooks, a mighty God to de fend, an omnipotent God to achieve, a force able to overcome all other forces in tbe uni versa Rose of Hharou aud Lily of the Valley is he, combination of all gentleness and tenderness and sweetness? Oh, yea Bat if the mighty forces now arrayed for the destruction of the nations are to be met and con quered we must have s God of ths rocks—the "Lion of Judah’s tribe” as well as the “Lamb who was sUip ” One hundred aud thirty times does the Bible speak of the rock as defense, as armament, as refuge, as overpowering strength. David, tbe psalmist, lived among tbe rocks, and they reminded him of the Almighty, and he ejaculates: “The Lord livetb. Blessed bo my rock. ” “Lead me to the rock that is higher than L ” And then, as if his prayer had been answered, he feels the strength come into bis soul, and he criusout: “Tbe Lord is my rock. M “Be shall set me up upon a rock. ” Would the Bible present a sublime picture of motherly desperation in defense of her children, it shows ns Rizpah on tbe rock for three months, with disheveled hair and wild screams, fighting back vultures and jackals from the corpses of her sons Would ths Bibls set forth the hsrdness of the heart and tbe power of Goepel to overcome it, it tells ns of the “hammer that breaketh the rocks in pieces." Would onr Lord represent the durabil ity of his church against all assault, he says, "Upon this rock will I build my oh arch, and the gates of bell shall no* prevail against it. ’’ Would be close his sermou on tho mount with a peroration that would resound through centuries, standing on a rock so high that it over looks Lake Galilee to the right, and on a clear day overlooks the Mediterranean to tho left, I bear him stamp bis foot on tho rock beneath him as he cries to the surging multitudes at the base of that rock, “Whosoever heareth these layings of mine aud docth them I will liken him nnto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock, aud the rain de scended and the floods came and the winds blew aud beat upon that house, aud it fell not, for it was founded upon a rock.” Ah, my friends, we want a swarthy, a stalwart, a brawny religion! We have a great many people who can sit and gently rock tbe cradle of their infantile hopes, and can faintly smile when good is accomplished, aud walk softly through a sickroom, aud live inoffen sive lives, aud manage to tread on no one’s prejudices, and their religion is at the best when the wind is from tiie northwest and tbe thermometer at 70 degrees F., aud they have their spheres and may God prosper them. But wo waut in this great battle for God against the allied forces of perdition some John Knoxes, some Martin Lathers—men of nerve and faith and prowess like the llngneuots and the pilgrim fathers and the Dutch ut Leyden keeping back tho enemy until tbe tides of the sea came in. Lord God of the rocks, help ns iu this awful struggle, in which heaven or hell is bound to beat! Tlia Rock* of Israel. How much the rocks have had to do with the cause of God in all ages! In the wilderness God’s Israel were fed with honey out of the rock. How the rock of Horeb paid Moses back in gush ing, rippling, sparkliug water for tbe two stout strokes with which he struck it I And there stands the rock with name —I guess tho longest word in the Bible —sela-hainmahlekoth.and it was worthy of a resounding, sesquipedalian nomen clature, for nt that rock 8aul was com pelled to quit his pursuit of David and go home and look after the Philistines, who were making a flank movement. There were the rocks of Bozez aud 3e- nch, between which Jonathan climbed np and sent flying in retreat the garri son of the uncircnmcised. And yonder see David and bis men hidden in the rock of Adollam and EngedL But while I go on with my study of tbe geology of tbe Bible, or God among the rocks, I got a mere intelligent and helpful idea of divine deliberation. These rocks, tho growth of thousands of years add, geology says, of millions of years, ought to show the prolongation of God’s plans and core our impatience because things ere not done in short or der. Men, without seeing it, become critical of tbe Almighty and think, Why does be not do this and do that aud do it right away? We feel some times as if we could not wait. Well, I guess we will have to wait God Is never in a harry, except about two things. His plans, sweeping throngb eternity, are beyond onr comprehension. They have snch wide circle, snch vast ness of revolution, such infinitude, that we cannot compass them. Indeed be would not be much of a God whom we could thoroughly anderstand. That would not be ranch of a father who bad no thoughts or plans larger than bis babe of one year could compass. If God takes millions of years to make one rook, do not let ns become critical if he takes to years or a century or several centuries to do that which we would like to have done immediately. Do not repeat the folly of thoee who conclude there it no God or that he is not in sympathy with the right end the good ) because ho does not do certain things iu > the time we set apart for their perform ance. Do not let ns hold np onr little watch with its tiny boor hand and min ute baud and by it try to correct tbe clock of tbe universe, its pendnlum taking 600 years to swing this way aud 600 years to swing that way. Do not let ns set up our little spinning wheel beside tbe loom in which God weave! sunrises and sunsets and auroras. We have the best of authority for saying that “one day with tho Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. ’’ Do not expect that Uz- zah’s oxen, even if they do not shy off, but go straight ahead, can keep np with the tiro shoe lightuinga But that was not a slip of the tongue when I said that God is never in a bur ry except in two tbinga Those twe things are when he goes to sav? a re pentant sinner and comfort a praying mourner. The one divine hurry was set forth in the parable of the prodigal son, when it says, “ths father ran.” He was old, and 1 suppose bed as much as he could do to walk, but tbe sight of hi4 bad boy coming home limbered tbe stiff knees and lengthened the shortened pace of the Id man into an athletic stride. “Tbe father ran!’’ Put it into your oratorios. Sound it with full or chestra. Repeat it through all heavens, "Tbe father rani" O soul farthest off, oome bock, and God, your Father, will come out to meet yon at full run! The other time when God is in a hurry is when a troubled sonl calls for com fort Then the Bible represents the di vine gait and swing and velocity by tbe reindeer, saying, “Be thon like a roe or • young hart on tbe mountains of Bother." That parenthesis 1 pot in thinking that there rany besome repent ant sinner who wants to find pardon or some mourning soul who needs comfort, and therefore 1 mention the two things about which God is in a great hurry. Be Patient. But concerning all the vast things of God’s government of the universe be patient with tbe carrying out of plans beyond our measurement. Naturalists tell us that there are insects that are born and die within an hoar and that there are several generations of them in one day, and if one of those July Insects of an hour Should say: “How slow •verytbing goesl I was told in tbe chrysalis state by a wondrous instinct that I would find in this world seasons of the year—spring, summer, autumn and winter. But where are the an- tnmnal forests upholstered iu lire, and where are the glorious springtimes, with orchards waving tbeir censers of per fume before tbe altars of the morning? I do not b< lieve there are any autumns or springtimes." If then a golden eagle, many years old, in a e-age nearby beard the hum of that complaiuiug iuseet, it might well answer: “O summer insect of an hour, though your life is so short you cannot see tho magnificent turn of the seasons, 1 can testify as to their reality, for I have seen them roll. When I was young aud before I was imprisoned in this cage 1 brushed their gorgeous leaf age and tbeir fragrant blossoms wiih my owu wing. You live an hour, I have lived 30 years. But in c/no of my flights high up, the gate of heaven open tor u soul to go iu or a seraph to come out, I heard the choirs chanting, ‘From ev erlasting to everlasting thou art God. ’ Aud it w’as an antiphoual iu which all heaven responded, ‘From everlasting to everlasting thou art God.’ O man, O woman, bo far as your earthly ex istence is concerned, only the insect of an hour, be not impatient with the workings of the Omnipotent aud the Eternal.” Aud now, for your solace and your safety, I ask you to come under the shelter and into the deep clefts and the almighty defense of a rock that is high er than you, higher thau any Gibraltar, higher thau ths Himalayas—the Rock of Ages—that will shelter you from the storm, that will bide you from your enemies, that will stand when the earthquakes of tbe last day get tbeir pry under tbe mountains and hurl them iuto seas boiling with the fires which are already burning tbeir way out from red hot centers toward the surfaces, which are already here and there spout ing with fire amid the quaking of tbe monntains, under the look aud touch of him of whom it is said iu the sublini- est sentence ever written, “He looketh upon the uionntains and they tremble, he tonchetb the hills and they smoke.” Hie you one and all to the Rock of Ages. 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I gradually grew worse until I was un able to take my food or handle myself in any way; I was abso lutely helpless. Three bottles of S.S.S. re lieved me so that I iwas soon able to move my right arm; before long I could walk across the room, and when I had finished one dozen bottles was cared completely and am as well oa ever. I now weigh 170.’’ A Real Blood Remedy. S.S.S. cures Scrofula, Cancer, Eczema, and any form of blood troubles. If yon have a blood disease, take a blood medi cine—S.S.S. (guaianteedpurely vegeta- table) is exclusively for the blood and is recommended for nothing else. It forces out tbe poison matter permanent ly. We will •end to anyone our valuable books. Address Swift Specific Co., Atlanta, Ga. sss W. L. DOUGLAS $3 SHOE the’d/Vrtd. For 14 year* tbl* *hoe, by merit ■lone, has <llii*nre<l *11 competitor*. W. L. Douglas nS.M, •4.SO *0(1 £*.•• shoe* nre the pro/fiictlom of skilled workmen, from the ben material Alim w. L. Douglaa by over lAAl.OOO wearer* m tbe beat In nyle, fit and durability of any Shoe ever offered at tbe price*. They are made In all tbe lateat shape* and nyle*, and of every vari ety of leather. If dealer cannot supply you, write for cata logue to W. L. Douglaa, Brockton, Man. Sold 8/ O. E. WILKINS & BRO., GAFFNEY, S. C. THE GAFFNEY*SEMIMRY, A High-Grade School for Boy» and Girls, will open its ses sion on Wednesday, Aug. 25th. I For terms and particulars address W F McARTHUR, Principal. Gaffney, S. C. *-39-tf Notice of Sale. THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. I COUNTY or t'HKKOattt:. r lu the Cmumoii Pleas. 1 Thomas F. McDow, Plaintiff. against M. R. Reese, et al., Defendants. • By virtue of the Decree of Foreclosur* in the above cause, made November 261 h, lag;, i shall expose to public sale, at tiaffne/. Cherokee Court House, on the tirst Monday In January. IHUS, the Interest of the defend ant M. R. Reese, (one undivided third), in Um Real Estate described In said Decree a* follows: * All of that certain piece, nan-el or lot of land, (the same being one-third Interest), lying and situated In the town of BlackburK, In the county of York, and State of Smite Carolina, known as the Inin City Hotel Pr<M»- erty, and bounded on the Southwest by Shelby Street; on the Northwest by lands of O. C. Harratt; Northeast by lauds of Whlao- nantA Brown; on the Southeast by land* of Florence North; beginning at a stake oa Shelby Street, Florence North's line, aud running with said street N. Jt), \V 101 feet, to O. C. Surratt's line, thenoe with said O. CL. Sarratt's line N.tki, E. 75 feet, thence S. E. 25 feet, thence N. 60. E. 51 feet, to Wlilso- nant A Brown's line, thence with said Whin- ouant A Brown's line S. JO. E. 76 feet, thenrw S. 60, W. 126 feet with Florence North's line to the begtiiuiiiff. txkms or 8AI.E. One-half cash and the remainder In ons year, with Interest from the day of sale, se cured by purchaser's Isind and a mortgage of the premises, with leave to pay all cash. Purchasei to pay for pu|ier». .1. Kb .iKrrKuis*. Clerk of Cherokee County. December St h, 1HW7. Piedmont Savings ud Investment Compenj, GREENVILLE. 8. C. This company has money to lend onteIff- ncy real estate. Our loan plan Is cheaper aud niora satisfactory than tee plans of any building and loan aasoclatton offered In tea State. For our loan circulars, which tell d!4 aboul our loau plan, call on J. V. Jefferies. Etel- , our local attorney.