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1 TH»S LEDGER: GAFFNEY. S. C.. MAUCII 10. 1808. MIGHTY CONTRASTS. EARTHLY WITH EYESIGHT CELESTIAL COMPARED VISION. IIi-v. I>r. Tnlinngi- Slionn How Inmloiiuato Is Human Coucrption of God—The Groat Majority Will He .Saved Joy» of Heaven Are Past Man’s L'tiderstuudlng. ICopyright, 1K98. by Amorlcan Press Asso ciation.] Wafhinoton, March 0.—Thin dis- conrse of Dr. Tahnaj/o is one of niiRbty contrasts, and tbo dimness of earthly eyesight as compared with the vivid ness of celestial eyesight is illustrated. The text is I Corinthians xiii, 12, “For now we see through a glass, darkly, but then face to face. “ The Bible is the most forceful and pungent of books. While it has the sweetness of a mother’s hush for human trouble, it has all the keenness of a scimeter and the crushing power of a lightning bolt. It portrays with more ♦ ban a painter's power, at one stroke picturing a heavenly throne and a judg ment conflagration. The strings of this great harp are fingered by all the splen dors of the future, now sounding with the crackle of consuming worlds, now thrilling wilhtho joy of the everlasting emancipated. It tells how cue forbidden tree in the garden blasted the earth with sickness and death and how another tree, though leafless and bare, yet plant ed on Calvary, shall yield a fruit which shall more than antidote tho poison of the other. It tells how tho red ripe clus ters of God’s wrath were brought to the wine press and Jesus trod them out, and how at last all tho golden chalices of heaven shall glow with the wine of that awful vintage. It dazzles the eye with an Ezekiel’s vision of wheel and wing and Are and whirlwind and stoops down so low that it can put its lips to the ear of a dying child and say, “Como up higher. ’’ And yet Paul, in my text, takes tho repousibility of saying that it is only 0:1 indistinct mirror and that its mis sion shall be suspended. I think there may bo ono Bible in heaven, fastened to tho throne. Just as now, in a museum, we have a lamp exhumed from Her culaneum or Kiueveh, and we look at it with great interest and say, “How poor a light it must have given compared with our modern lamps!” so I think that this Bible, which was a lamp to our feet in this world, may lio near tbo throne of God, exciting our interest to all eternity by the contrast between its comparatively fceblo light and tho illu mination of heaven. The Bible now is the scaffolding to the rising temple, but when the building is done there will be no use for the scaffolding. Huimui Ijcnorauce. Tho idea I shall develop today is that in this world our knowledge is compar atively dim and unsatisfactory, hut nev ertheless is introductory to grander and more complete vision. This is eminently true in regard to cur view of God. We hear so much about God that we con clude that we understand him. Ho is represented as having tho tenderness of a father, tho firmness of a judge, the majesty cf a king and the love of a mother. We hear about him, talk ahou him, writo about him. Wo lisp hia uamo in infancy, and it trembles on the touguo of tho dying octogenarian. Wo think that wo know very much about him. Take tho attribute of mercy. Do wo understand it? The Bible blossoms all over with that word—mercy. It speaks again and again of the tender mercies of God; of the sure mercies; of the great mercies; of tho mercy that eudur- cth forever; of the multitude of bis mercies. And yet I know that the views wo have of this great being art* most in definite, one sided and incomplete. When at death tho gates shall fly open and wo shall look directly upon L!ui, how new and surprising! We see upon Canvas a, j^ctrrQ <?f the morning. We ft’.- ’r tbo cloud in tbo sky, the dew b*..- tho grass and the husbandman on tho way to tho field. Beautiful picture of thomcruiug! liut wo rise at daybreak and go up on a hill to see for ourselves that which was represented to us. While wo look the mountains are trams- figured. Tho burnished gates of heaven swing open and shut, to * et pa8t a host of fiery splendors, clctJ(ls uro a n abloom and ’^aug pendent from arbors of alftfcihcor and amethyst. The waters make pathway of inlaid pearl for the light to walk upon, and there is mom- ing on the sea. Tho crags uncover ‘..tjeir scarred visage, and there is it truing < among tho mountains. Now you g (J homo, and how tame your pi nf the that shall be the contr ^ botW(:eIi tWiH ' facnptnral view of < wo shall have w' face. This is a that will bo t a r 4Hk .aaI and that which .Aiitx *1 and mg face to ^iccure, ( o< t4*o morning m .orulug itself. '»Knm. . ea « Vfrfoldlng. Agaim my text ^trut of the Saviour’s exec (.ney. By ima g*. and sweet rhythm of expression ftlM j xtartliug antithesis Christ is set lortl*—4iis love, his com passion, his bin liftt, his death, his rcsurrec a OD> We are challenged to measure it t(J compute it, to weigh it. nr of our broken enthrallment at up into high experience of andsbout until the countenance mid tho blood hounds and the In the bo we moc his love glows I prayed for us on the mountain and th< ught of us by the sen and agonized | for us in the garden and died for us in i horrible crucifixion, to feel of him, to j embrace him, to take his hand, to kiss ! his feet, to run our fingers along tho sears of ancient suffering, to say:“This ! is my Jesus. Ho gave himself for mo. I shall never leave hiv presence. I shall | forever behold his glory. I shall eternal- I ly hear his voice. Lord Jesus, now I seo i thee. I behold where the blood started, whet * tho tears coursed, where the face was distorted. I have waited for this hour. I shall never turn my back on thee. No more looking through imper fect glasses. No more studying thee in the darkness. But us long as this throne stands and this everlasting river flows and those garlands bloom and these arches of victory remain to greet homo heaven’s conquerors so long I shall see thee, Jesus of my choice, Jesus of my song, Jesus of my triumph, forever and forever, face to face.” God's Providence. The idea of the text is just as true when applied to God's providence. W ho has not come to some pass in life thor oughly inexilicable? You say: “What does this mean? What is Gcd going to do with me now? He tells mo that all things work together for good. This does net look like it.” You continue to study the dispensation and after awhile guess about what God means. “Ho means to teach mo this. I think lie means to teach me that. Perhaps it is to humble my pride. Perhaps it is to make mo feel more dependent. Perhaps to teach me tho uncertainty of life.” But after all it is only u guess—a looking through the glass, darkly. The Bible assures us there shall bo a satisfactory unfolding. “What I do thou kuowest not now, but thou shalt know hereaft er.” You will know why God took to himself that only child. Next door there was a household of seven children. Why not take one from that group instead of your only one? Why single out the dwelling in which there was only one heart beating responsive to yours? Why did God give you a child at all if ho meant to take it away? Why till tho cup of yuur gladness brimming if he meant to dash it down? Why allow all the tendrils of your heart to wind around that object, and then, when every liber of your own life seemed to he interlock ed with the child’s life, with strong hand to tear you apart, until you fall, bleeding and crushed, your dwelling desolate, your hopes blasted, your heart broken? Do you suppose that God will explain that? Yea. He will make it plainer than any mathematical problem —as plain as that two and two make four. In the light of the throne you will seo that it was right—all right. “Just and true are all thy ways, thou King of saints. ” The Explanation. Hero is a man who cannot got on in tho world. Ho always seems to buy at tho wrong time and to sell at tho worst disadvantage. Ho tries this enterprise and fails, that business and is disap pointed. The man next doer to him has a lucrative trade, hut he lacks custom ers. A new prospect opens. His income is increased. But that year his family are sick, and tho profits are expended in trying to cur> the ailments. He gets a discouraged lock, becomes faithless as to success, begins to expect disasters. Others wait for something to turn up, he waits for it to turn down. Others with only half as much education and character get on twice as well. Ho sometimes guesses us to what it all means. Ho says: “Perhaps riches would spoil me. Pirhaps poverty is necessary to keep me bumble. Perhaps I might if things were otherwisa bo tempted into dissipations.” But there is no complete solution of the mystery. He sees through a glass darkly and must wait for a hjgb'r pnfcliing. Will there bo an ex- pLnation? Yes. UOti Y’ll take (hat man in tho light of tbo throne and say: ‘‘Oild immortal, hear tho explanation. You iOimmbtr tho failing of that great euterpri^o, your misfortune in 1857, your disaster in 1807. This is tho ex planation.” And you will answer, “It l is all right. ” Mj’ttstiet Made Clear. I see tvery day profound myetwiea of providence. Tbtfe is no question we ask ofteuer ibav, Why? There uro hundreds of graves in Oak Hill and Greenweed and Laurel Hill that need to be ex plained. Hospitals for tho blind aud lame, asylums for ihe idiotic and iu- Ear.O, almshouses for the destitute and a world of pain and misfortune that de mand more than human solution. Ah, Gcd will clear it all up! In the light that pours from tho tlr.oue dark mystery can live. Things new utterly inscrutable will be ulumiu<*l us plainly as though the r^iswer were written on tbo jasper wall or souudGd in tho tem ple anthem. Bartimeus will thank God that he was blind, utid Lazarus that ho was covered with sores, and Joseph that he was cast into the pit, aud Daniel that he denned with lions, and Paul that bo was humpbacked, aud David that he was driven from Jerusalem, aud that sewing woman that she could get only a few pence f<r making a garment, and that invalid that for 20 years be could not lift 1ms head from tho pillow, and that whkiw that she hud such hard work to case bread for her children. You know « nature is exhilarated, “I have dhim!” Aud yet it is through a ; ' «s darkly. Wo see not half of that mpaKsinnato face. We feel not half lie warmth of that loving heart. We wait for death to let us rush into his outspread arms. Then wo shall Imj face to face. Not shadow thou, but sub stance. Not hope then, but the fulfill ing of all preliguremeut. That will be a magnificent unfolding. The rushing out in view of all bidden exocllency, the coming again <<£ a long absent Jesus to meet us—not in rags and in penury and death, but amid a light and pomp and out’jurstiug joy such as none but a glo rified intelligence could experience. Oh, to gaze full upon the brow that was lac erated, upon the side that was pierced, upon the fast that were nailed, to stand close up 4a the (presence of him who tlsit in a song different voices carry different parts. The sweet and over whelming part of the halleluiah of heav en will not be carried by those who rode in high places and guv < sumptuous entertainments, but pauper children will sing it, beggars will sing it, re- decnit d bod carriirs will sing it, those who were once tho offscouriug of earth will sing it. The halleluiah will bo all tho grander for earth’s weeping eyes aud aching heads aud exhausted hands and scourg'd liacks and martyred agonies. Few Will He host. Again, the thought of the text is just when applied to the enjoyments of tho righteous in heaven. I think we have bat little idea of tbo number of the righteous in heaven. Infidels say, “Your heaven will be a very small place compared with the world of the lost, for, according ti your teaching, the majority of men will he destroyed.” I deny tho charge. I suppose that tho multitude of the finally lost, as com pared with tho multitude of the finally saved, will be a handful. I suppose that tho few sick people in the hospital today as compared with the hundreds of thou sands of well people in tho city would not be smaller than the number of those who shall bo cast out in suffering com pared with those who shall have upon them the health of heaven. For we uro to remember that wo arc living in com paratively tho beginning of the Chris tian dispensation, and that this world is to be populated aud redeemed, aud that ages of light aud love are to flow on. If this be so, tho multitudes of tho saved will be in vast majority. Tako all the congregations that have today assembled for worship. Put them together and they would make but a small audience compared with the thou sands, and tens of thousands, and ten thousand times ten thousand, and the hundred and forty and four thousand that shall stand around tho throne. Those flashed up to heaven in martyr fires; those tossed for many years upon tho invalid couch ; those fought in the armies of liberty and rose as they fell; those tumbled from high scaffold .ngs or slipped from the mast or were washed off into the sea. They came up from Corinth, from Laodicea, from the Red sea bank aud Genesareth’s wave, from Egyptian brickyards and Gideon’s thrashing floor. Those, thousands of years ago, slept the last sleep, and these arc this moment having their eyes clos ed and their limbs stretched out for tho sepulcher. A general expecting an attack from the enemy stands on a hill aud looks through a fieldglass and sees in tho great distance multitudes approaching, hut has no idea of their numbers. Ho says: “I cannot toll anything about them. I merely know that there arc a great number.” And so John, without attempting to count, says, “A great multitude that no man can number.” Joy of Ileavon. Wo are told that heaven is a place of happiness, hut what do wo know about happiness? Happiness in this world is only a half fledged thing, a flowery path with a serpent hissing across it, a bro ken pitcher from which the water has dropped before we could drink it, a thrill of exhilaration, followed by disastrous reactions. To help us understand tho joy of heaven the Bible takes us to a river. Wo stand on the grassy Lank. Wo see tho waters flow on with cease less wave. But tiio filth of the cities is emptied into it, and the banks are torn, ami unhealthy exhalations spring up from it. and wo fail to get an idea of tho river of life in heaven. We get very imperfect ideas of tho reunions of heaven. Wo think of some festal day cu earth when father and mother were yet living aud tho children came home. A good time that! But it had this drawback—all were not there. That brother went off to sea cud never was heard from. That sister—did we not lay her away in the freshness of her young life, nevermore in this world to look upon her? Ah, there was a skel eton at the feast, and tears mingled with our laughter on that Christmas day. Not so with heaven’s reunions. It will bo an uninterrupted gladness. Many a Christian parent will look around and find all his children there. “Ah,” he says, “can it bo possible that wo are all here—life’s perils over? Tho Jordan passed aud not ono wanting? Why, even tho prodigal is hero. I al most gave him up. How long he de spised my counsels! But grace hath tri umphed. All here, "ail here! Tell the mighty joy through tho city. Let the bells ring and tho angels niontiou it in their ecug. Way? it from the top of the walls. All hire!" Fare to Fae«< No moro Breaking of heartstrings, but face to tfaco. Tho orphans that were left poor aud in a merciless world, Licked aud cuffed of many hardships, shall join their parents, over whoso graves they so long wept, aud gaze into their glorified countenances forever, face to faco. Wo moy como up from differ ent parts of the worldj from the land and auetker from tho depths of the sea, from lives affluent and prosper ous, or froin sceuos of rafted distress, bat \vb shall all meet in rapture and jubilee, face to face. Many of our Triends bavo entered upon that joy. A few days ago they sftt with ns studying these gospel themes, but they 'Ally saw through a glass, dark ly. Nuw revelation hath come. Your time will also come. God will not leave you floundering in the darkness. You stand wonder struck and amazed. You feel as if all the loveliness of life were dashed out. You stand gazing into the open chasm of the grave. Wait a little. In tho presence of your departed aud of him who carries them in his bosom you shall soon stand faco to faco. Ob, that our last hour may kindle up with this promised joy! May wo bo able to say, like tho Christian not long ago departing, “Though a pilgrim, walking through tho valley, tbo moun tain tops are gleaming from peak to peak,” or, like my dear friend aud brother, Alfred Cookman, who to<jk his flight to tbo throuu of God, saying in his last moment that which has already gone into Christian classics, “1 am sweeping through tho pearly gate, washed in tho blood of tho Lamb.” A BEAUTIFUL NEW SILK. Made by “Communal Butter Hies,” but It Cannot He Spun Yet. Some very remarkable hugs are being hatched and reared just at present by the experts cf the government bureau of entomology at Washington. Most peo ple would suppose that there ‘wero enough insects in existence without re sorting to artificial propagation, hut tho fact is that this kind of scientific work has a very useful purpose in view; this, too, notwithstanding the fact that tho species selected for breeding are the most pestiferous that can be found. Tho bug hatchery, or “insectary,” as it is called, is a brick building close by the department of agriculture. In con struction it resembles a groeuhou.-e, tbo upper part being of glass, so as to admit plenty of light for the insects. It is divid ed into two compartments, one of which is artificially heated for the benefit of tropical and other species that require warmth, while tho other is cold. On shelves all around the interior aud on the floor as well are glass jars and queer glass sided boxes containing a great va nity of odd looking objects. Tho objects in the glass jars are parts of plants, fruits, dried up vegetables, pieces of branches or roots, etc. One does not seo any hugs at all, and tho reason why is simply that the vegeta bles, fruits and so forth are the natural food of tho insects, aud the latter are either inside of them or else are “done up” in cocoons for the winter. For example, there is a huge cocoon uino inches long hanging from a twig in a jar of exceptional size. This is the temporary communal dwelling built 1 y the so called “gregarious butterfly” in Mexico. More correctly speaking, it is tho caterpillars—transformed later into butterflies—that construct the cocoon for a residence while they are undergo ing their metamorphosis. The cocoon looks and feels as if made of thick parchment, aud at the lower end of it is a small hole that serves for a door. Tho labor employed in building it must be enormous. Under a powerful magnifying glass it is seen to be com posed of an infinite number of shining aud very slender silken threads, cross ing each other in every direction. When cut into, tho nest is found to contain 100 or more chrysalids, attached to tho walls on tho inside—each one represent ing a future butterfly. Tho habit of combining together to build a house seems to he peculiar to this species among butterflies. The silk composing tho nest is exquisite, and from 20 to 25 sheets of it can he strip ped off from tho great cocoon, looking as if woven in a loom. If the silk could only bo spun, tho “gregarious butterfly” would soon displace the silkworm, aud tho silks and satins of commerce would be of butterfly manufacture. Unfortu nately tho difficulty remains unsolved, though mauy attempts in this direction have been made. Could a solution of the problem bo found, silk would be come at ouce enormously less costly, in asmuch as the cocoons of this kind of butterfly arc to be gathered in immense numbers as a wild crop in tho forests of Mexico.—Washington Letter in Boston Transcript W. H. PALMER, WATERLOO, IOWA. ‘Saved From the Horrors of Nervous Pros tration" by Or. Miles’ Nervine. >7 COUGH doci; Indicate consumption, Mr W. II. Palmer, of Waterloo, Iowa, writes: "I was taLcn with a Nervous stricture of tho bronchial tul)^, which developed into nervouu pros- t .atloa. 1 wtus mu wvak I could not sit up. I sot no aleep for days except when under the influence! of opiates. For four months I suf fered agonies and prayed that 1 ndzht die and bo at rest. One physician said I iiad consumption, for I had a cough that gave me no rest. Hut a good old physician whose medicine had failed, advised me to use Dr. Mlies’ Restorative Nervine and I thank Gisl that it has bright ened my days, length' it-d my life and saved me from the horrorsol nervous prostration.'' Dr. Miles’Remedies are sold by all drug gists under a positive guarantee, first tiottln benefits or money refunded, lloolt on Heart and Nerves sent free to all applicants. DU. MILES MEDICAL CO., Elkhart. lad. Piedmont Savings Bucklen’s Arnica Salve. The Heat S'.lvo In the world ft»r Cute, BrulHea, Hores, Ulcer, Salt Rheum, Fever Sc ’va, Tetter, Chapped llundf, Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Eruption, and postively cures 1’ilea or no pay required. It ia gura- anteed to give perfect satisfaction or money refunded. Brice 2f> cents per box. For sale by The Dul’ro Drug Co. If Rico Goose Grease don't cure your aches and pains, hums, bruises and sprains, we pay you money back. DePsa Daua Co. and WILL CONSTIPATION KILL? 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Dealers or niaii.A.C.iac)|or 4 Co., Balto.JM. CANDY CATHARTIC I0c 25c 50c ALL DRUGGISTS Financial Report of the Town of Gaffney City, S. C, Ol Receipts and expenditures beginning Apr. 1st, 1<S90, and end Dig the Town of (hitlney, S. (’ Mar. 5th, 189 > KECE1PTS. Ihiliince from former Treasurer. Fines License Cotton Weighing Scavenger Cemetery Taxes Dispensary Merchandise and Miscellaneous Notes aud Bond* Excess and Shortage EXPENDITUUKS. » 041!.:,7 Lot.',.?:, m.&o 877.SO 112.44 s'.,00 5.016.2X 1,121.11 i7.;o I2.s;;i 47 1.62 Police Charity Lumber Scavenger Merchandise and Miscellaneous Livery and Feed Salary Intendaut and Clerk Managers of Election Refunded Tax Streets and Supplies Electric Lights Advertising aud Stationery Telephone New County Expenses l.o;n:i; 14 N, 11.123 40.:ti 4.W.79 '.►Ctf SB St* 11 Ml 7!b#> •tSUHi Al.Ud 1X5 DM CL 4» 2.929.1* Notes and Itonds 4.270.41 Uniforms Attorney Salary City Hall Balance Due by Clerk By balance $22,OSO.<4 12H_» -Mtjm . XU».» 106.*! 7.115.75 8!2.06niu Meh. 1. IM'7. Balance In Treasury. ,.115.75 Balance in Treasury $ 7.115.75 Balance Due by Clerk 106>2 Fines 65S.OO License 417.sn Cotton Weighing 357.55 Scavenger 55.13 Cemetery 25.00 Taxes .'MHi9 23 Dispensary 527.44 Notes and Itonds 4*1.no Excess and Shortage 20 Police .$ ae.» charity IsAi Merchandise and Miscellaneous 174247 Livery and Feed TV.Mt Salary Intendent and Clerk -tUMM Streets and Supplies 1.HUAS7 Elect ric Lights trA27 Advertising and Stationery... *7jsi New County Expenses X3.4» Notes and Homfs HHtj» Attorney Salary 72259 City Hall 4.K*l» Uniforms SW.IC Meh. 5. By Balance 2.7HM* #13.713 92 #13.7U2K Meh. 5,1*99. Balance In Treasury... » 2,7M.st, We hereby certify that tbo above statement is correct. o' •> J A. Carroll, Ti»eas. L. Baker, Town Clerk. -»§ M. G. MONTGOMERY,^ NDERTAKED Ai*r> FURNITURE DEALER. 11 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. Mr. A. B. (hiines is still with me and will continue to serve hi)* patrons in the future as in the past. M. G. MONTGOMERY. IF YOU WANT TO BUY investment Company, GREENVILLE. H. C. This company lias monay to l*nd on Gaff ney real estate. Our loan plan Is cheaper and more satisfactory Ilian the plans of any building and loan association offered In the State. For our loan circular*, which tell all about our loan plan, call on J. O. Jufferle*, Eaq.,oiir local attorney. *-l»-tf ■WTagons, O ticino *ni<1 JVcicl Olieap CALL ON J. I. N. B.—Oak wood delivered at 75c per loud. The Gaffney City Land and Improvement Company Offers for sale Building Pits In this flourishing town. Gaffney City: Also 1 aria* tieur by and In r« ueh "f the Hehouls of Limestone Springs and of this place. 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