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* THE LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. C., FEBRUARY 3. 1808. it > V ITURDY (KRISTIANS. THE TIMES DEN^ND MEN AND WOM EN OF dEROIC MOLD. Dr. Tulninso Drnrs a floral From the , Life of (2ueen Stther—Active, Lament, ! orklng Chriaians Arc Xeodeil how ] and Alwajr*. ICopyrlght, 1898, J>' American Press Asso- j lation.] Washington, Juu. SO.—Dr. Tnhnap’ I bms thows thi! tylo cf Cbristiau cb»r- | noter required or tbo tiiues iu \rhich j %ve live aud peads for more heroics. ; Tlie text is Estier iv, 14, “Who know- ! cth whether thm art como to the king ' dom for such mime as this?” Esther the jeautiful was the wife ! of Ahasuerus tie ubomiuablo. The time had come for hr to present a petition 1 to her iufaruois husband iu behalf of the Jewish mtiou, to which she had once belonged. She was afraid to uu- i dertako tbo werk lest she should lose her own life, tut her cousin, Mordecai, | who had brought her up, encouraged her with the luggestiou that probably she had been nised up of God for that peculiar missim. “Whokuowoth wheth er thou art cane to the kingdom fox such u time at this?’’ Esther had her God appointed work. You and I ha T e ours. It is my business to tell yon wlat stylo of men and wom en you ought to bo in order that you meet the demand of the ago in which God has castyonr lot. So this discourse will not deal with the technicalities, but only vith the practicabilities. When two armies have rushed into bat tle, the officers of either army do not want a philosophical discussion about the chemical properties of human blood or the nature of gunpowder; they want some one t( man the batteries aud take out the guts. And now, when all the forces of light and darkness, of heaven and hell, h»ve plunged into the fight, it is no time to give ourselves to the defi nitions aud formulas and technicalities aud couvertionalities of religion. Whet wo want is practical, earnest, concen trated, erthusiastio anti triumphant help. Aggrt-salve Chrlntlanity. 1 In the first place, iu order to moet tho special demand of this age you need to bo an unmistakable, aggressive Chris tian. C f iialf nod half Christians wo do l^ot Want uuy more. T 1 ’? r * Jesus Christ will be better without them. They are the chief obstacle to tho church’s advancement. I am speaking ’ of another kind of Christian. All the appliances for your becoming an earnest Christian are at your hand, and there ia a straight path for you into tho broad daylight of God’s forgiveness. You may this moment bo tho bondmen of the world, aud tbo nest moment you may bo princes of tho Lord God Almighty. You remember what escitemcut there was in this country years ago when the Prince of Wales came here—how the people rushed out by hundreds of thou sands to see him. Why? Because they expected that some day ho would sit upon tho throne of England. But what was all that honor compared with tho honor to which God calls you to bo sons aud daughters of tho Lord Almighty, yea, to bo queens and kings unto God? “They shall reign with him forever aud forever. ” But you need to bo aggressive Chris tians, aud not like those persons who spend their lives in hugging their Chris tian graces and wondering why they do not make progress. How much robust ness of health would a man have if ho hid himself in a dark closet? A great deal of tho piety of today is too exclu sive. It bides itself. It needs more fresh air, more outdoor exercise. There are many Christians who are giving their entire life to self examination. They are feeling their pulses to see whut is tho condition of their spiritual health. How long would a man have robust physical health if he kept all the day feeling his pulse instead of going out into active, earnest everyday work? Won’t Htand AnaljM*. I was once amid the wonderful, be witching cactus growths cf North Car olina. I never was more bewildered with the beauty of flowers, and yet when I would take up one of these cac tuses and pull the leaves apart the beau ty was all gone. Yon could hardly tell that it had ever been a flower. And there aro a great cany Christian pcopl'j in this day just pulling apart their Chris tian experiences to see what there ia in them, and there is nothing left in them. This stylo of self examination ia a damage instead of an advantage to their Christian character. I remember when I was a boy I used to have a small piece in tho garden that I called my own, and I planted corn there, and every few days I would pull it up to see how fast it was growing. Now, there aro a great many Christian people iu this day whose self examination merely amounts to tho pulling up of that which they only yesterday or tbo day before plant ed. Oh, my friends, if you want to have a stalwart Christian character, plant it right out of doors in tho great field of Christian usefulness, and thongh storms may come npon it, and, thongh the hot sun of trial may try to consume it, it will thrive until it becomes a great tree in which the fowls of heaven may have their habitation. I have no patience with these flowerpot Christians. They keep themselves nuder shelter, and all their Christian experience in a small, exclusivo circle, when they ought tc plant it in tho great garden of the Lord so that the whole atmosphere could bt aromatic with their Christian useful ness. What wo want in tho church cf God is more strength of piety. Thu cei- tnry plant is wonderfully suggestive and Wonderfully beautiful, but I never lo«k at it without thinking of its parsim^ry It lets whole generations go by before it puts forth one blossom, so I have really more admiration when I seo the deny tears in the blue eyes of the violets, for they come every spring. My Christian friends, time is going by so rapidly mat we cannot afford to be idle. A recent statistician says that hu man life now has an average of only S3 year’*. From these 32 years yon must subtract all tbo time you tuko for sleep and tho taking of food and recreation. That will leave you about 10 years. From these 16 you must subtract all tbo time that you aro necessarily engaged iu tho earning of a livelihood. That will leave you about eight years. From these eight years you must take all tho days | and weeks and mouths—all the length of time that is passed iu sickness—leav ing you about one year in which to work for God. Ob, my soul, wake up! How darest thou sleep in harvest time, ! and with so few hours in which to reap? J Ho that I state it as a simple fact that all the time that the vast majority of you will have for the exclusivo service of God will be less than one year. Shirking KeopnniiibUity. “But," says some man, “I liberally support the gospel, and the church is open, aud the gospel is preached, all the spiritual advantages are spread before men, and if they want to bo saved let them como aud bo saved, I have dis charged all my responsibility.” Ah, is that my Master’s spirit? Is there not an old book somewhere that commands us to go out into tho highways and the hedges and compel tho people to come in? What would become of you and mo if Christ had not come down off the bills of heaven, aud if he had not como through the door of the Bethlehem car avansary, and if ho had not with the crushed hand of tho crucifixion knocked at the iron gate of the sepulcher of our spiritual death, crying, "Lazarus, come forth?" Oh, my Christian friend, this is no time for inertia when all the forces of darkness seem to be iu full blast— when steam printing presses aro pub lishing infidel tracts, when express trains are carrying messengers of sin, when fast clippers are laden with opium and strong drink, when tho night air of our cities is polluted with the laughter that breaks up from the 10,000 saloons of dissipation and abandonment, when the fires of the second death already are kindled in the cheeks of some who only a little while ago were incorrupt. Oh, never since tho curse fell upou the earth has there been a time when it was such an unwise, such a cruel, such an awful thing for the church to sleep. The great audiences are not gathered in Christian churchej; tho great audiences are gath ered in templesof sin—tears of unutter able woe their baptism, tho blood of crushed hoarts the awful wine of their sactainout, blasphemies their litany, aud tbo groans of the lost world the organ dirge of their worship. Avoid Beckless Iconoclaam. Again, if you want to be qualified to meet the duties which this age demands of you you must on tho one hand avoid reckless icouoclasm and on the other band not stick too much to things be cause they are old. The air is full of now plans, new projects, new theories of government, now theologies, and 1 am amazed to seo how so many Chris tians want only novelty in order to recommend a thing to their confidence, and so they vacillate and swing to aud fro, and they aro useless and they are unhappy. New plans—secular, ethioal, philosophical, religious, cisatlantic, transatlantic—long enough to make a line reaching from the German univer sities to Great Salt Lake city. Ah, my brother, do not take hold of a thing merely because it is new I Try it by the realities of tho judgment day. Bnt, on the other hand, do not adhere to any thing merely because it is old. There is not a single enterprise of the church or tho world but has some time been scoffed at. There was a time when men derided even Bible socictiea and when a few young men met in Massachusetts aud organized the first missionary socie ty ever organized in this country there went laughter and ridicule all around tho Christian church. They said tho undertaking was preposterous, and so also ■ the work of Jesus Christ was as sailed. People cried out: "Whoever heard of suoh theories of ethics and government? Who ever noticed such a style of preaching as Jesus has?" Ezek iel had talked of mysterious wings and wheeh. Hero came a man from Caper naum and Gennesaret, and he drew his illustrations from the lakes, from tbo sand, from the mountain, from the lilies, from tbo cornstalks. How the Pharisees scoffed I How Herod derided! And this Jesus they pluoked by tho beard, and they spat in bis face, aud they called him "this fellow. ” All the great enterprises in and ont of the church have at times been scoffed at, and there have been a great multitude who have thought that tho chariot of God’s truth would fall to pieces if it once got out cf tho old rub And so there aro those who have no patience with anything like improvement iu charch architecture or with anything like good, hearty, earnest church sing ing, and they deride any form of reli gious discussion which goes down walk ing among everyday men rather than Lint which makes an excursion on rhe torical stilts. Oh, that the church of God wonld wake up to an adaptability of work. We must admit the simple fact that the churches of Jesus Christ in this day do not reach the great masses. There aro 60,000 people iu Edinburgh who never hear the gospel. There are 1,000,000 people in London who never hear tho gospel. The great majority of the in habitants of this capital come not un der tho immediate ministrations of Christ’s truth, and the church of God in this day, instead of being a place full of living epistles, known and read of all men, is more like a dead letter post- office. Work la Needed. "But,” say the people, "the world is going to be converted. You must be pa tient. The kingdoms of this world are to become tho kingdoms of Christ.” Never, unless the church of Jesus Christ puts on more speed and energy. Instead of the church converting the world the world is converting the church. Here is a great fortress. How shall it be taken? An army comes and ■its around about it, cuts off the sop- plies and says, “Now we will just wail until from exhaustion and starvation they will have to give up.” Weeks and mouths, perhaps a year, past along, and finally tho fortress surrenders through that starvation aud exhaustion. But, my friends, the fortresses of sin are never to be taken in that way. If they are taken for God, it will bo by storm. You will have to bring up the great siege guns of tho gospel to tho very wall and wheel the flying artillery into line, aud when the armed infantry of heaven shall confront the battlements you will have to give the quick com mand: "Forward! Charge!” Ah, my friends, there is work for you to do aud for mo to do in order to this grand accomplishment. I have a pulpit. I preach in it. Your pulpit is the bank. Your pulpit is the store. Your pulpit is tho editorial chair. Your pulpit is tho anvil. Your pulpit is tho houso scaffold ing. Your pulpit is the mechanics’ shop. I may stand in my place aud through cowardice or through self seeking may keep back the word I ought *o utter, while you, with sleeve rolled up aud brow bosweated with toil, may utter the word that will jar tho foundations of heaven with tho shout of a great victory. Oh, that we might all feel that the Lord Almighty is putting upon us tho hands of ordina tion ! I tell you, every one, go forth aud preach this gospel. Yon have as much right to preach as I have or any man living. Hedley Vicars was a wicked man in tho English army. The grace of God came to him. He became an earnest and eminent Christian. They scoffed at him aud said, "You are a hypocrite; you arc as bad as ever you were. ” Still he kept his faith in Christ, aud after awhile, finding that they could not turn him aside by calling him a hypocrite, they said to him, "Oh, you are nothing but a Methodist!’’ This did not disturb him. He went no performing his Chris tian duty until he had formed all his troops into a Bible class, aud tho whole encampment was shaken with tho pres ence of God. So Havelock wont into the heathen temple in India while tho Eng lish army was there and put a candle into the hand of each of the heathen gods that stood around in tho heathen temple, and by the light of those cau dles held up by the idols General Have lock preached righteousness, temperance and judgment to com©. And who will say on earth or in heaven that Havelock had not tho right to freach? Tbo Poxcar of Carcostncis. In the minister’s house whero I pre pared for college there worked a man by | the name of Peter Croy. He could neither read nor write, bnt be was a man of God. Often theologians would stop in the houso—grave theologians— and at family prayer Peter Croy would be called upon to lead, and all those wise men sat around, wonder struck at his religious efficiency. When ho prayed, he reached <p and seemed to take hold of tho very threueof the Almighty, and ho talked with God un’il tho very heav ens were bowed down into the sitting room. Ob, if I were dying I would rather have plain Peter Croy kneel by my bedside aud commend my immortal spirit to God than the greatest arch bishop arrayed in costly canonicals. Go greach this gospel. You say you are not licensed, in the name of the Lord Al mighty, 1 license you. Go preach this gospel, preach it in the Sabbath schools, in the prayer mootings, in the high ways, in the hedges. Woo be unto you if yon preach it not! I remark again that in order to ho qualified to meet your dnty in this par- ticalar age yon want unbounded faith in the triumph of the truth and the overthrow of wickedness. How dare tho Christian church ever got discouraged? ; Have we not tho Lord Almighty on ! onr side? How long did it take God to | slay the hosts of Sennacherib or burn Sodom or shake down Jericho? How long will it take God, when be once arises in his strength, to overthrow all the forces of iniquity? Between this time and that there may be long seasons of darkness and the chariot wheels of God’s gospel may seem to drag heavily, but here is the promise and yonder is the throne, and when omniscience has lost its eyesight and omnipotence falls back impotent and Jehovah is driven from his throne, then the church of Joans Christ can afford to be despondent, b\.t never until then. Despots may plan aud armies may i march and the congresses of tho nations I may seem to think they are adjusting ! all the affairs of the world, but tho , mighty men of tbo earth are only tho , dust of the chariot wheels of God’s ! providence. And I think before tho sun ; of the next century shall set the last tyr- ; anny will fall, and with a splendor of demonstration that shall bo the aston- | ishment of tbo universe God will set j forth tho brightness and pomp and glory J and perpetuity qf his eternal govern ment. Out of the starry flags and the emblazoned insignia of this world God will make a path for his own triumph, and returning from universal conquest ho will sit down, the grandest, the i strongest, highest throne of earth his footstool Yet do nothing to make yourself well again because you hath to think you are sick. This Is unwise. It Is more, ft Is dangerous, lor the reason that kidney diseases begin with just such uncertain symptoms. Arc you dull aud despondent, •By bilious, constipated, with headaches, foul breath, weak digestion and no enenry ? These symptoms mean a torpid liver and unless promptly regulated will surely affect the kidneys (if they are not already involved). The course of wisdom is to begin wT at once to use m PRICKLY ASH BITTERS.: It is a kidney remedy and system regulator combined. If the disorder is confined to tho liver and bowels, it wKl cleanse, strengthen and invigorate those organs and quickly restore a feeling of health and vigor, and if tho trouble has reached the kidneys it brings to bear a powerful healing influence that may be depended on to control the disease. Prepared by Prickly Ash Bitters Co.. St. Louis. Price $1.00 pet Bottle. Sold by all Druggists. tf*F“(!herokee Drug Co. Special Agents. the trumpeting of resurrection angels and the upheaving of a world of graves and the hosanna aud the groaning of the saved and the lost wo shall be rewarded for our faithfulness or punished for our stupidity. Blessed bo the Lord God of Israel from everlasting to everlasting, and let the whole earth be filled with his glory. Amen and amen. To Enooarago Christian Workers. I prepare this sorm ju because I want to encourage all Christian workers iu every possible department. Hosts of the living God, march on, march oul His spirit will bless you. His shield will defend you. His swerd will strike for you. March on, march oul The despot isms will fail, and paganism will burn its idols, and Mohammedanism will give up its false prophet, and the gnat walls of superstition will come down iu thunder and wreck at the long loud blast of the gospel trumpet. March on, toarcb out The besiegement will soon be ended. Only a few more steps on the long way; only a few more sturdy blows; only a few more battlecries, then Godwill put the laurels upon your brow, and from tho living fountains of heaven will bathe off the sweat aud the beat and the dust of the conflict. March I on, march on I For you the time for work will soon be passed, and amid the ontflavhingsof the judgment throne and Strange Story of Mr. Terris*’ Dog. Mr. Toiu Terriss relates a curious and inexplicable incident iu connection with the assassination of hia father, the late William Terriss. On the night of the murder Mrs. Terriss was sitting in the drawing room of the Cottage, Bedford park, the late actor’s home, with a pet dog—an intelligent fox terrier called Davie, after Mr. Terriss’ favorite part of Lieutenant David Kingsley in "The Harbor Lights"—comtcrtably asleep upon her lap. Messrs. William and Tom Terriss, tbo sons, weue also iu the room. The clock marked 20 minutes past 7, when sud denly, without tho slightest warning, tho dog leaped from Mrs. Terriss’ lap and dashed frantically about the room, yelping, snapping and showing all the signs of a paroxysm of mingled rape aud fear. The behavior of Davie was so extraordinary that it seriously upset Mrs. Terriss for tho remainder of tho evening. It was exactly at 20 minutes past 7 that Mr. Terriss was murdered. "My brother Will aud I were playing chess," said Mr. Tom Terriss when questioned on the subject, "and tho dog was apparently quietly dozing on my mother’s lap, and it startled us all con siderably as it bounded up and down the rcom with frantic snaps and snarls. My mother was very much alarmed and cried out: ’W’hut does he see? What does ho see?’ convinced that the dog’s anger was directed at something unseen by us. My brother aud I soothed her as well as we could, though ourselves con siderably puzzled at the behavior of an ordinarily quiet and well conducted pet Yes, the incident occurred at tho very hour of my father’s death.”—Lon don Mail A Horns That Climbs Tree*. Dan Berry, the well known horse owner of this city, has made a great hit in purchasing an ordinary looking nag in the southern part of tho state. It ap pears that the owner was glad to get rid of it and thought he was doing a smart thing iu working it off on Dan, but tbo latter is going to turn the deal to bis own account, for the animal is a won der. It is nothing more or less than a climbing horse. It was foaled in the woods of an un settled part of Brown county, and for six months afterward it never saw a hu man being. Daring that period it learn ed to climb trees with the agility of a squirrel, and when it was first discov ered it lay sleeping in the branches of n large oak. The horse was taken homo and broken to drive, and now in every other respect it is a well behaved ani- | mal except when it takes a notion to climb a tree, and no matter whether hitched up or not np tho tree it goes, buggy and all. A few days after coming here tho horse was hired by John Peterson and John Heeler for a drive into the coun try. The drivers wore passing through a large woods when the horse suddenly took a notion to climb a tree, and up it vent with the buggy and men. The latter fell out, but the horse went on up into the tree, carrying tho buggy with it For three honrs the boys tried to coax it down, but it staid up until its desire was satisfied. The bnggy was badly broken, and the boys came back with the horse, bnt left tbo fragments of the vehicle behind them. Mr. Berry will sell the horse to a circus.—Chicago Chronicle. Mr. F. C. IIelb:g, a prominent druggist of Lynchburg. Ya., says: "One of our citizens was cured of rheumatism of two years standing, by one bottle of Chamberlain’s Fain Balm. This liniment is famous for its cures of rheumatism ; thousands have been delighted with the prompt relief which it affords. For sale by DuPre Drug Co. Evcrrbodjr Says So. Cnscarets Candy Cathartic, the most won derful medical discovery of the age, pleas ant and refreshing to the taste, ad «ently and i>ositlvely on kidneys, liver and bowels, : cleansing tho entire system, dispel colds, cure headache, fever, habitual constipation , and biliousness. Please buy and try a box of C. C. C. to-day; 10, 25, SO cents. Bold and guaranteed to cure by all druggists. Vain able to Women. Especially valuable to women is Browns- Iron Bitters. Backache vanishes, headache disappears, strength bikes the place of weakness, and the glow of health readily comes to the pallid cheek when tins won derful remedy is taken. For sickly children I oroverworked men it hasnoequnl. Nohome should lie without this famous remedy. Browns’1.on Bitters is sold by all dealers. Hick’s Goose Grease Ltnament. cures all aches and pains. Sold and guaranteed by Chkhokke Dhi'u Co. That heritage of rich and poor, has saved many a life. For Throat and Lung affections it is "invaluable. It never fails to cure Cough, Cold, Croup and Whooping-Cough. DR. BULL’S COUGH SYRUP is the best. Price 25 cents. Chew LANGE'S PLUGS. The Great Tobacco Antidote,10c. Dealers or tnail,A.C.Mejer & Co., Balto.JIA CANDY CATHARTIC CA1HAKI1U ^ CURE CONSTIPATION ALL DRUGGISTS TETT -og MONTGOMERY & GAINES,§<- IDERTAKlft AIVI) FURNITURE DEALERS. Plain and Fancy Furniture at Rock Bottom Prices for Cash or on Installment Plan. Our Undertaking Department is the Most Complete in the City. Orders will Receive Prompt and Courteous Attention. MONTGOMERY & GAINES. Building and Plastering Lime, Coal, Shingles, Laths and Plaster Hair, [Dynamite, Blasting Powder, Fuse and Dynamite Caps, call on THE LIMESTONE SPRINGS LIME WORKS, Telephone 57. CARROLL & CO., Lessees The Gaffney City Land and Improvement Company Offers for sale BuildingTxits in this flourishing town, Gaffney City: Also Farms new by and In reach of th» Schools of Limestone Springs and of this place, in lots of from 30 to 100 acres on liberal time rates; also Agricultural Lands to rent ior Farm pur poses. For full particulars apply to WOOO* N. R.—All tresspassing on landsof this company, cutting and removing timber, fishing or hunting, are forbidden under penalty of law. THE NATIONAL BANK OF GAFFNEY. CAPITAL $50,000.00. This bank respectfully solicits the accounts of individual firim and corporations aud will extend every reasonable accommoda tion to those doing business with it. Call to see us if you wish to borrow money. F. G. Stacy, Prest, J. G. Wardlaw, Vice-Prest, D. C. Ross, Cashier. MOT STUMM. 4- Hot Coffee, Hot Chocolate. Hot Cocoa Cola, Hot Clam “T, Hot Beef Tea, Hot Lemonade. FOR Hot Cocoa. Served Day and Night at I>ii I Te 1 Co’s, IF YOU WANT TO BUY "Wagroii®, Griiano tiiicl Acid I*liosphatej Cheap Up-to-Date Job Print ing. call at the LEDGER Office. Gaffney, S. C. CALL ON v J. I. Ji j. N. B.—Oak wood delivered at 75c per load.