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THE LEDGKK: GAFFKEY, S. C\, JULY 28, I8U8.
FORMS OF WORSHIP.
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.S OF SECTARIANISM DR.
MAGE'S THEME.
TAL-
Vren Roligioua Discussion Has a Tendency
to R?eak Down Denominational Bnrrier*.
The Man Who Can See Only One Side
Will Always Be a Bl^ot.
^Copyright, 1S98, by American Press Asso
ciation.]
WASHiNfiTox, Jnly 24.—In his ser
mon today Dr. Talmago shows what
sectarianism really is, its origin, evils
and cure. The text was Judges xii, G:
“Then said they unto him, Say now
shibboleth, and ho said sibboleth, for
he could not frame to pronounce it right.
Then they took him and slew him at the
passages of Jordan.”
Do you notice the difference of pro-
"taunciatiou between shibboleth and sib
boleth? A very small and unimportant
difference, you say. And yet that dif
ference was the difference between life
and death for a great many people. The
Lord’s people, Gilead and Ephraim,
got into a great fight, and Ephraim was
worsted, and on the retreat came to the
fords of the river Jordan to cross. Order
was given that all Ephraimites coming
there be slain. But how could it be j
found out who were Ephraimities: They 1
were detected by their pronunciation, j
Shibboleth was a word that stood for i
river. The Ephraimitos had a brogue of |
their own, and when they tried to say
“shibboleth” always left out the sound
of the“h. ” When it was asked that
they say shibboleth, they said sibboleth,
and were slain. “Then said they unto
him, say now shibboleth, and he said
sibboleth, for he. could not frame to
pronounce it right. Then they took him
and slew hiia at the passages of Jor
dan. ” A very small difference, you soy,
between Gilead and Ephraim, and yet
bow much intolerance abont that small
difference! The Lord's tribes in our
time—by which I mean the different
denominations of Christiana — some
times magnify a very small difference,
and the only difference between scoies
of denominations today is the difference
between shibboleth and sibboleth.
The church of Gcal is divided Into a
grrat number of denominations. Time
would fail me to tell of the Calvinists,
and the Armiuians, and the Sabbata
rians, and the Baxterians, and the Bun
kers, and the Shakers, and the (Quakers,
and the Methodists, ami the Baptists,
and the Episcopalians, and the Luther- ;
aus, and the Congregationalists, and
the Presbyterians, and tbo Spiritualists,
and a score of other denominations of
religionists, some of them founded by
very good men, some of them founded
by very egotistic men, somo of them
founded by very bad men. But as I de
mand for myself liberty of conscience I
must give that same liberty to every
other man, remembering that he no
more differs from me than I differ from
him. I advocate the largest liberty in
all religious belief and form of wor
ship. In art, in politics, in morals and
in religion let there he no gag law, no
moving of the previous question, no
persecution, no intolerance.
Man's Couscieucx).
You know that the air and the wa
ter keep pure by constant circulation,
uud 1 think there is a tendency in re
ligious discussion to purification and
moral health. Between the fourth and
sixteenth centuries the church proposed
to make people think aright by prohib
iting discussion, and by strong censor
ship of the press and rack and gibbet
and hot lead down the throat tried to
make people orthodox, but it was dis
covered that you cannot change a man’s
belief by twisting off his head, nor
make a man see differently by putting
an awl through his eyes. There is some
thing in a man’s conscience which will
hurl off tho mountain that you threw
upon it, and unningt'd of tho fire out of
the flame will make red wiugs ou
which the martyr will mount to glory.
In that timo of which I speak, be
tween tho fourth and sixteenth centu
ries, people went from tho house of God
into tho must appalling iniquity, and
right along by consecrated altars there
were tides of drunkenness and licen
tiousness such as the world never heard
of, and tho very sewers of perdition
broke loose and flooded tho church.
After awhile tho priuting press was
freed, and it broke the shackles of tho
human mind. Then there came a large
number of bad books, aud where there
was one man hostile to the Christian
religion there were 20 men ready to ad
vocate it, so I have not any nervousness
in regard to this buttle going ou be
tween truth and error. The truth will
conquer just as certuiuly as that God is
stronger than the devil. Let error run
if you only let truth run along with it.
Urged on by skeptic’s shout aud traus-
cendentalist’s spur, let it run. God’s
angels of wrath are in hot parsuit, and
quicker than eagle's beak clntchua out
a hawk's heart God’s vengeance will
tear it to pieces.
Cure For Sectarianism.
I propose to speak to yon of sectarian
ism—its origin, its evils and its cures.
There aret those who would make us
thiuk that this moustcr, with horns and
hoofs, is religion. 'l shall chase it to its
hiding place and drag it out of the
caverns of darkness aud rip off its hide.
But I want to make u distinction be
tween bigotry and the lawful fondness
for peculiar religious beliefs and forms
of worship. I have no admiration for a
nothingarian.
In a world of such tremendous vicis
situde and temptation and with a seal
that mast after awhile stand before a
throne of insufferable brightness, in a
day when the rocking of the mountains
and tho flaming of the heavens and the
upheaval of the seas shall bo among the
least of the excitements, to give accoaut
for every thought, word, action, prefer
ence and dislik<<—that man is mad who
has no religions preference. But our
early education, our physical tempera
ment, oar mental constitution, will very
much decide our form of worship.
A style of psalmody that may please
y
me may displease yon. ftmio would like
to have a minister in gown and bands
and surplice, an<? others prefer to bav ^
a minister in plain citizen's apparel, i
Some are most impressed when a little
child is presented lit ffU' altar aud
sprinkled of the waters <>f a holy lieuo-
diction “in the namq of the Father and
of the Son and of tftifi Holy Ghost,”
aud others are more impressed when the
penitent comes up o«ji of the river, his
garments dripping with tho waters of a
baptism which sigjiiilas tho washing
away of sin. Let citiRr have his own
way. One man likes no noise in prayer,
not a word, not a whisper. Another '
man, just as good, prefers by gostioula- |
tiou aud exclamation to express his do- \
votioual aspirations. One is just as good i
as the other. “Every mau fully persuad
ed in his own miud. ”
George Whitefieftl was going over a ,
Quaker rather roughly for somo of his ]
religious sentiments, and the Quaker
said: “George, I am as thou art—I am j
for bringing all men to the hope of the |
gospel. Therefore, if thou will not quar- |
rel with me about my brood brim, I
will not quarrel with thee about thy
black gown. George give me thy hand. ” ;
In tracing out the religion of secta
rianism or bigotry I find that a great ^
deal of it oomes from wrong education i
in the heme circle. There are parents
who do not thiuk it wrong to caricature
and jeer the peculiar forms of religion
in the wcfld aud denounce other sects
and other denominations. It is very
often the case that that kind of educa
tion acts just opposite to what was ex
pected, aud the children grow np aud
after awhile go aud see for themselves,
and, looking in thone churches and find
ing that tiie people are good there and
they love God aud k<*^ his oommaud-
zneuts, by natuiwl reaction they go and
join th<vo very chiMwbos. I could meu-
tion the names of prominent ministers
of the gospel who spent their whole
lives bombarding other denominations
and who lived to see their children ;
preach tho gospel in Ifaoaa very deuomi- ‘
nations. But it is often the case that |
bigotry starts in a household, and that
the subject of it never recovers. There |
are tens of thousands of bigots 10 years
old.
Cmm* of moo*J-y.
I think sectarianism and bigotry also
rise from too great prominence of any
one denomination in a community. All
the other denominations are wrong and
his denomination is rigid because his
denomination is the most wealthy or
the most popular or the most influen
tial, and it is“our” ohurch, and “our”
choir, and “our” minister, and the man
tossefi his head and other denom
inations to know rheir places. It is a
great deal bettor m any community
when the great denonmations of Chris
tians are about eqnal iu power, march
ing side by side for tho world’s con
quest. Mere outside prosperity, mere
worldly power, is no evidence that the
church is acceptable to God. Better a
barn with Christ in the manger than a
cathedral with ningniIVwnt harmonies
rolling through tho long drawn aislo
aud an angel from heaven in tho pulpit
if there be no Christ iu the ehaucel and
no Christ in the robes.
Bigotry is often «*«ld of igno
rance. You seldom find a man with large
intellect who is a bigort. It is tho man
who thinks ho knows a groat deal, but
does not. That man is almost always a
bigot. Tho w hole tendency of education
and civilization is to bring a man out of
that Rind of state of mind and heart.
There was in the far eoct a great obelisk,
and one sido of iho obelisk was white,
another side of tho Obelisk was green,
another side of the obalUk was blue,
and travelers went and looked at that
obelisk, but they did not walk around
it. One man looked at one side, another
at another side, and they came homo,
each one looking ut only one side, and
they happened to in**A, the story says,
and they got into a rank quarrel about
the color of that obelisk. One man said
it was white, another mau said it was
green, another man said it was blue,
aud when they were iu the very heat of
the controversy a more intelligent trav
eler oiime and said: “Gentlemen, I
have seen that obelisk, aud you are all
right, aud you are all .wrong. Why
didn’t you all walk around theobeli.sk?”
Look out for the man who sees only
one side of a religious truth. Look out
for tho man who never walks around
about these meat theoctos of G(xl and
eternity an* tho dead. Ho will be a
bigot inevitably—the man who only
sees one side. There is no mau more to
be pitied than he who h&s iu his head
just one idea—no more, no less. More
light, less sectarianism. There is noth
ing that will so sonu h*U bigotry as
sunshine—God’s suushiua
Truth! of JUUo.
So I have set befofie yon what I con
sider to be the causes of bigotry. I have
set before you the origin of this great
evil. What are some of tho baleful ef
fects? F irst of all, it cripples investiga
tion. You are wrong, aud I am right,
aud that ends it. No taste for explora
tion, no spirit of investigation. From
tho glorious realm of God's truth, over
which an archangel might fly from
eternity to eternity uud not reach the
limit, the man shuts himself out and
dies, a blind mole under a com shock.
It stops all investigation.
While each denomination of Chris
tians is to present all the truths of ?bo
Bible it seems to me that God has given
to each denomination an especial mis
sion to give particular emphasis to some
one doctrine, and so the Calvinistic
churches must present the sovereignty
of God, and the Arminian churches
must present man’s free agency, and the
Episcopal churches must present the
importance of order and solemn cere
mony, and the Baptist churches must
present the necessity of ordinances, and
the Congregational church must pre
sent the resiiousibility of the individual
member, and the .Mfitbodist church
must show what holy enthusiasm,
hearty coigregatioual singing, can ac
complish. While each denomination
of Christians mast not forth all the doc
trines of the Bible I feel it is especial
ly incumbent upon each denomination
to pnt particular emphasis ou some cun
doctrine.
Another great damage done by the
sectarianism and bigotry of the church
is that it disgusts people with the
Christian religion. Low, my friends,
tho church of God was never bit' ndt d
for a war barrack. People arc afraid, of
a riot. You go down tho street ami yon
see an excitement and missiles flying
through the air, and you hoar tho t.h< ok
Df firearms. Do you, tho peaceful and
industrious citizen, go through that
street? Oh, no. Yon will say, “I’ll g'
around the block.” Now, men come
and look upon this narrow jK.th f
hoavuu, and sometimes see tho eccl. ; i
astical brickbats flying every whither,
and they say: "Well, I guess I’ll take
the broad road. There is so much sharp-
shooting on tho narrow road I guess 1 11
try the broad road. ”
Francis I »o hated the Lutherans that
he said that if ho thought there was
one drop of Lutheran blood iu his veins
he wonld pnucture them and let that
drop out Just as long as there is so
much hostility between donomiuuiiou
and denomination, or between one pro
fessed Christian and another, or between
one church and another, so long men
will bo disgusted with the Christian re
ligion and say, “If that is religion, I
wont none of it ”
Wasted Ammunition.
Again, bigotry and sectarianism do
great damage in the fact that they hin
der the triumph of the gospel. Oh, how
much wasted ammunitiou! How many
men of splendid intellect have given
their whole life to coiltroversial disputes
when, if they had given their life to
something practical, they might have
been vastly useful! Suppose, while I
speak, there were a common enemy
coming up the bay, and all the forts
around the harbor began to fire into
each other. Y'ou wonld cry out: “Na
tional suicide! Why don’t those forts
blaze away in one direction, and that
against the common enemy?” And yet
I sometimes see in the church of tho
Lord Jesus Christ a strange thing going
ou—church against church, minister
against minister, denomination against
denomination, firing away into their
own fort, or the fort which ought to bo
ou the same side, instead of concentrat
ing their energy and giving one mighty
and everlasting volley against the navies
of darkness riding up through the bay!
I go out sometimes in the summer and
I find two beehives, and these two hives
are in a quarrel. I come near enough
not to be stung, but I come just near
: enough to hear tbe controversy, and one*
beehive says, “That field of clover is
the sweetest,’’ and another beehive
says, “That field of clover is tho sweet
est.” I come in between them and say:
j “Stop this qnarrel. If you like that
field of clover best, go there; if you like
this field of clover best, go there, but
| let me tell yon that that hive which
! gets tho most honey is the best hive!”
, So I come out between the churches of
the Lord Jesus Christ. One denomina
tion of Christians says, “That field of
I Christian doctrine is best, ” and another
I says, “This field of Christian doctrine
; is the best.” Well, I say, “go where
1 you get the most honey.” That is the
best church which gets the most honey
1 of Christian grace for tho heart and the
most honey of Christian usefulness for
the life.
I Besides that, if you want to build up
any deduminatien, yen will never build
, it up by trying to poll some other dowu.
■ Intolerance never put anything down.
How much has intolerance accom-
I plished, for instance, against tho Moth-
| odist church? For long years her minis-
I try were forbidden the pulpits of Great
Britain. Why was it that so many of
them preached iu tbe fluids? Simply be
cause they could not get in tho churches.
Aud the name of the church was given
in derision and asa sarcasm. The critics
of the church said, “They have no or
der; they hare no method in the wor
ship, ” and tho critics, therefore, in
irony, called them “Methodists.”
FutiUljr of Intolerance.
I am told that in Astor library, New
York, kept as curiositios there are 707
books and pamphlets against Metho
dism. Did intolerance stop that church?
No, it is either first or second amid the
denominations of Christendom, her mis
sionary stations iu all parts of the
world, her men not only important in
religious trusts, but important also in
mistakes in regard to our religious
affairs? Shall wo take a man by tho
throat or by fho collar because he can
not see religions truths just ns we do?
In the light of eternity it will bo found
out, I think, tlA-re was something
wrong in all cur creeds, and something
right iu all our crocus, bnt since we
may make mistakes iu regard to things
of the world do not lot us ba so egotis
tic and so puffed up as to have an idea
that wo cannot make any mistake in re
gard to religious theories. Aud then 1
thiuk we will do a great deal to over
throw tho sectarianism from our heart,
aud tho sectarianism from tho world,
by chiefly enlarging in those things iu
which wo agrt-o rather than those ou
which we differ.
Move Into Muc.
Now, here is a greater gospel plat
form. A man comes up on this side of
the platform and says, “I don’t believe
in baby sprinkling.” Shall I shove him
off? Here is a man coming up ou this
side of the platform, and he says, “I
don’t believo in the perseverance of tho
saints.” Shall I shove him off? No. I
will say: “Do yon believe in the Lord
Jesus as your Saviour? Do you trust
him for time aud for eternity?” He
says, “Yes.” “Do you take Christ for
time and for etepiity?” “Yes.” Isay,
“Come on, brother; one in time and
one in eternity; brother now, brother
forever. ” Blessed be God for a gospel
platform so large that all who receive
Christ may stand on it!
I think we may overthrow tho severe
sectarianism and bigotry iu our hearts
and inthechnrch also by realizing that
all the denominations of Christians have
yielded noble institutions and noble
men. There is nothing that so stirs my
soul as this thought. One denomination
yielded a Robert Hall and an Adonirnm
Judson; another yielded a Latimer and
a Melville; another yielded John Wes
ley uud tho blessed Sumnacrfield, while
our own denomination yielded John
Knox and the Alexanders—men of
whom the world was not worthy. Now,
I say, if we are honest and nur minded
men, when wo come up in the presence
of such churches aud such denomina
tions, although they may bo different
from our own, we ought to admire
them, and we ought to l"e and honor
them. Churches which can produce such
men and such largo hearted charity and
such magnificent martyrdom ought to
win our affection—at any rate, our re
spect. So oomo on, yo 600,000 Episco
palians in this country and ye 1,400,-
000 Presbyterians and ye 4,000,000
Baptists and ye 5,000,000 Methodists—
come on; shoulder to shoulder we will
march for tho world's conquest, for all
nations are to be saved, aud God de
mands that you and I help. Forward,
tho whole line! In /he Young Men’s
Christian associations, in the Bible so
ciety, in the Tract society, in tho For
eign Missionary society, shoulder to
shoulder, all denominations.
Brothers Forever.
Perhaps I might forcefully illustrate
this truth by calling yonr attention to
an incident which took place 25 years
ago. One Monday morning at about 2
o’clock, while her !>0U passengers were
round asleep in her berths dreaming of
home, the steamer Atlantic crushed into
Mars head. Five hundred souks in ten
minutes landed in eternity. Oh, what
a scene! Agonized men and women run
ning up and down the gangways and
clutching for tho rigging, and the
plunge of the helpless steamer and the
clapping of the hands of tho merciless
sea ever tho drowning and the dead
threw two continents into terror. Bnt
see this bravo quartennastA pushing
out with the life lino until ne gets to
tho rock, and sec those fishermen gath
ering up the shipwrecked and taking
them into the cabins and wrapping
them in tho flannels snug aud warm,
aud see that minister of the gospel with
three other men getting into a lifelxiat
and pushing out for the wreck, pulling
away across the surf and pulling away
until they saved ono more mau and
then getting back with him to the
shore. Can those men ever forget that
night? And can they ever forgot their
companionship in peril, companionship
in struggle, companionship iu awful
catastrophe aud rescue? Never! Never!
In whatever part of the eartli they meet
they will bo friends when they mention
the story of that night when the At-
I lautio struck Mars head. Well, my
secular trusts. Church marching on and * r \ en ^ 8 » our world has gone into a worse
the more iutolerauoe against it the faster shipwreck. Sin drove it ou tho rocks,
it marched. j ^lio old ship has lurched and tossed in
What did intolerance accomplish*! ^ 10 ^ - T<>arS- Cnt with
against the Baptist chnrch? If laughing
scorn and tirade could have destroyed
the church, it would not have today a
disciple left. Tho Baptists were hurled
out of Boston in olden times. Those
who sympathized with them were im
prisoned, and when a petition was offer
ed asking leniency in their behalf all
the men who signed it were indicted.
Has intolerance stopped the Baptist
church? The last statistics in regard to
it showed 44,000 churches aud 4,000,-
000 communicants. Intolerance never
pnt down anything.
In England a law was made against
the Jew. England thrust back the Jew
and tlimit down the Jew and declared
that no Jew should hold official posi
tion. What came of it? Were the Jews
destroyed? Was their religion over
thrown? No. Who became prime min
ister of England? Who was next to tbe
throne? Who was higher than tho
throne because be was counselor and
adviser? Disraeli, a Jew. What were
wo celebrating in all onr churches as
well as synagogues only a few years
ago? The one hundredth birthday of
Montefioro, the great Jewish philan
thropist Intolerance never yet put
dowu anything.
Bnt now, my friends, having shown
yon the origin of bigotry or sectarian
ism and having shown you the damage
it does, I want brie^r to show you how
we are to war against this terrible evil,
and f think we ought to begin our war
by realizing our own weakness and our
imperfection*. If we make so many
mistakes in the common affairs of life,
is it not possible that we may make
tho life line! I do not care what denom
ination carries it Ont with tho life
boat! I do not cure what denomination
rows it. Side by side, in the memory
of common hardships, and common
trials, and oommeu prayers, md com
mon tears, let us be brothers forever
Wo must be
Ono army of the living God,
To his command we bow;
Part of I lie host have crossed the flood.
And part are crossing i. . w.
And I expect to see the day when all
denominetions of Christians shall join
hands around tho cross of Christ and
recite tho creed: “J believe iu God the
Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and
earth, and in Jesns Christ, and in the
communion of saints; and in life ever
lasting. Amen. ”
Lightning Rods.
A lightning specialist maintains that
rods are no protection, and that most
precautions taken by people to keep out
of the path of a possible electrical dis
charge are useless. Tho recent wonder
ful discoveries in relation to the nature
of electrical force prove tbo worthless
ness of tbe lightning rod, but offer
nothing toward disarming tho thunder
bolt
Look! A Stitch in Time
Saves nine. Hughes' Tonic (new Improved,
tftie pieasnnt). taken in early Spring and
I'all prevents Chills. Dengue amf Malarial
Fevers. Acts on the liver, tones up the sys
tem. Better than quinine. Guaranteed.
Try it. At Druggists. 00c and $1.00 bottles.
An ri/ona Rattler.
They say that t mau takes his life in
bis hand who sleeps on the ground in
Arizona, ” said a young civil eugii#er
the other day, “becucse there uro so
many sunken there. Hut unfortunately
men of our profession ?auuot always
choose their sleeping place. I was work
ing down there a little while ago with
another fellow, uud one night we were
obliged to lie down upon no better bod
than oar overcoats stretched on the
ground. We were too tired to bo nerv
ous and slept soundly till after mid
night, when my companion spraugYip
suddenly, waking mo with a start.
“What’s tho matter:” I asked sietp-
ily.
“There’s a rattler here.”
I listened aud beard nothing.
“I don’t hear him, ” I said. "Guess
you’ve had a nightmare. ” So wo settled
down again. Iu a few minutes my
friend leaped to his feet onco more, ex
claiming :
“There’s a rattler here, sure’s fate,
and you’d hotter get up. I believo he’o
uuder my coat.”
It was queer that I couldn’t hear it if
it was so near. I cautiously extended
my hand, feeling along tbe ground.
Yes, I know it was a foolish thing to
do, bnt we don’t always stop to think.
Suddenly I burst out langhing.
“Yes,” I said, “there is a rattler
here, iu your pocket too. Yon tell your
sweetheart not to write yon letters on
such stiff paper.”
We slept soundly for the rest of tbe
night, bat often since then I have gnyed
him about his “rattler.”—Cincinnati
Commercial-Tribune.
A Big and Kasy Fee,
A great corporation once desired a
legal opinion ou a matter involving mil
lions of dollars, for upon it practically
depended that corporation’s very exist
ence. They decided to refer the ques
tion, which was wholly one of the cor
rect interpretation of law, to William
M.Evarts and to be guided by his opin
ion. Ev&rts’ reputation and success arc
wholly due to his remarkable knowl
edge of law and his power, which seems
almost like intuition, of determining
just how the sapreiie court will decide
any question of law. When the attorney
for the great corporation put his ques
tion, Evarte sat buried iu thought for a
moment aud then answered iu one word,
“Yes. ” His bill for that one word was
§250,000, aud the corporation paid it
without a ninnnnr. Evarts’ answer
proved to be correct.
Scrofula to
Consumption.
Any one predisposed to Scrofula can
nover bo healthy and vigorous. This
taint in the blood naturally drifts into
Coneiimption. Being such adeep-seated
blood disease, Swift’s Specific is the
only known cure for Scrofula, because
it is the only remedy which can reach
ti)e disease*.
Scrofula a£ix\'.red on the h**9d of my llttlo
(frahdchiid when only 18 months old. s-hortly
after breaking out it spread rapidly all over
her body. The scabs on the sores would peel
off on tbe slightest touch, and the odor that
would arise made the at
mosphere of the room
sickening and unbearable.
The oisesse next attacked
the eyes, and we feared she
would lose her sight. Em
inent physicians from the
surrounding country were
consulted, but could do
nothing to relieve the lit
tle innocent, and gave It
as their opinion that the
can'* was hopeless and im-.
possible to save the child's eyesight. It was
then that we decided to try Swift's Specific.
That medicine ut once made a speedy and com
plete cure. She is now a young lady, and has
never had a sign of the disease to return.
Mbs. Ruth Bebkei.by,
Salina, Kan.
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Local Attorney, Gaffney. 8. C.
Summons for Relief.
(Complaint Not Served.)
State of Sooth Cakomna, « < 'ourt of Com-
Coi’NTYofi HhitoKEK. ' tuon Pleas.
Leandek Baker,
Plaintiff. Summons for Belief,
against
J. Frank Gaffney. | (Complaint not Served)
Defendant, j
To.l. Frank Gall riev, defendant in this ac-
tion: You sire hereby summoned and re
quired to answer t he complaint In t his action,
which istliisday filed in the office of the Clerk
of the Court for the said county, and to serve
a copy of your answer to the said complaint
on tin* stib-eriher at his otiice at Gaffney
City. S. ('.. within twenty days after the
service hereof exclusive of t lie day of such
service, and if you fail to answer the com
plaint within the tinu* aforesaid the plaintiff
in this action will apply to the court for re
lief demanded In the complaint.
Dated June 2fith. A. D. PhS.
Gaffney City, S. C.
.T. c. Jefferies.
Plaintiff's Attorney.
J. Em Jefferies. |seai.]
< . e. c. A G. s. c. c.
NOTICE To the defendant. J. FrankGaff-
ncy: Take notice that the summons, of
w ! ich the foregoing is a copy, tngether with
i he complaint iu tIds act ion. is t his day filed
in tin* office of clerk of Court of Common
Pleas and General Sessions for tin c, untyof
t ’herokee.
J. C. I EFFEKICS,
Plaintiff's Atty.
Dated June 2fftl». A. D., is'.is.
Gaffney City. S. C. li-2:i-0t
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