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- ML TUT! LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. C., DECEMBER 15. I8' 8. I 1 LIGHT IN DARKNESS. DR. TALMAGE COMFORTS THE SICK AND HELPLESS. I.ike Noah In tin* Ark. They Are Snfe From Octnlde Perlln —Shut In by <he Lord For nn All Wise Parpone. The ‘‘Without*” nod “Within*.” {Copyright, 1S98, by American Press Assa- ciation.J Washington, Deo. 11.—Tliis dis course of Dr. Talmage, wliich is Helpful to all who find life a struggle, is es pecially addressed to a class of persons probably never before addressed iu a sermon. The text is Genesis vii, 16, “Thu Lord shut him in." Cosmogony has no more interesting chapter than the one which speaks of that catastrophe of the ages, the submer sion of our world in time of Noah, the first ship carpenter. Many of the nations who never saw a Bible have a flood story—Egyptian flood story, Grecian flood story, of which Ducalion was the Noah; Hawaiian flood story, New Zea land flood story, Chinese flood story, American Indian flood story—all of which accounts agree in the immersion of the continents under universal rains, and that there was a ship floating, with a select few of the human family and with specimens of zoological and or nithological .and reptilian worlds, nl though I could have wished that these lai4 had been shut out of tho ark and drowned. All of these flood stories represent tho thip thus afloat as Anally stranded on a mountain top. Hugh Miller, in his “Testimony of the Hocks,” thinks that all these flood stories were infirm tradi tions of tho Biblical account, and I be lieve him. Tho worst thing alxjnt that great freshst was that it struck Noah’s Great Eastern from above and t>eijcath. Tho Kii.s broke the chain of shells and crystal and rolled over the land, and the heavens opened theirclonds for fall ing columns of water which roared and thunder* d on tho roof of the great ship for a mouth and ten days. There was one door to tho ship, hut there were throe part* to that doo», one part foi each of three stories. The Bible account says nothing about parts of the door ho longing to two of the stories, and I do not know on which floor Noah and his family voyaged, hut my text tolls us that the part of tho door of that partic ular floor on wliich Noah staid was closed after ho had entered. “The Lord shut him in.” So there are many peo ple now iu the world who arc as thor oughly shut in, homo by sickness, some by old age, some by special duties that will not allow them to go forth, some surrounded by deluges of misfortune and trouble, and for them my sympathies are aroused, and from them I often re- ceivo mctsagU'', aud this sermon, which I hope may do good to others, is more especially intended for them. Today I address the shut in. “Tho Lord shut him iu. ” Th« Dlvlue lliuid. Notice, first of all, who closed the door so that thsy could not get out. Noah did not do it, nor his son Sbeni, uur did Ham, nor did Juphcth, nor did either of tho four married women who were on shipboard, nor did desperadoes wlu) had scoffed at the idea of peril Which Noah had been preaching close that door. They had turned their back* ou tho ark and had iu disgust gone away. I will tell you how it was done. A hand was stretched down from heaven to close that door. It was a divine hand as well as a kind band. “The Lord shut him in.” And tho same kind aud sympathetic being has shut you iu, my reader or my hearer. You thought it was an acci dent, ascrihahlo to the carelessness or misdoing* of others, or a mere “happen so,” No, no! God had gracious design for your betterment, for the cultivation of yonr patience, for tho strengthening of your faith, for tho advantage you might gain by seclusion, for your eter nal salvation. Ho put you in a school room where you could learn iu six months or a year more than you could have learned anywhere else in a life time. He turned the lattice or pulled down the blinds of the sickroom, or put your swollen foot ou an ottoman, or held you amid tho pillows of a couch which you could not leave, for some reason that you may not now under stand, hut which ho has promised he will explain to yon satisfactorily, if not In this world, then iu the world to come, for ho has said, “What I do thou knowest not now, but thou sbalt know bereafter 1” The world has no statistics as to the number of invalids. The physicians know something about it, and the apothecaries and the pastors, hut who uun tell us the number of blind eyes, and deaf ears, and diseased lungs, and congested livers, and jangled nerves, and neuralgic temples, and rheumatio feet, or how many took no food this morning because they had no appetite to eat, or digestive organs to assimilate, or have lungs so delicate they cannot go forth when the wind is iu tho east, or there is u fog rising from tho river, or there is a dampness on tho ground or pavement because of tbofrutt coming out? It would he easy to count tho peo ple who every day go through a street, or tho number of passengers carried by a railroad company iu a year, or tho number of those who cross tho ocean in ships, hut who can give us tho statistics of the great multitudes who are shut iu? I call the attention of all such to their superior opportunities of doing good. Those of us who are well and can see clearly, aud hear distinctly, ami par take of food of all sorts, and questions of digestion never occur to us, and we can wade the snowbanks and take an equinox in our faces, and endure the thermometer at zero, aud every breath of air is a tonic and a stimulus, and sound sleep meets us within five min utes after our head touches the pillow, do not make so much of an impression when we talk about the consolations of religion. Thu world says right away: “1 guess that man uitlskss baoyaMj of natural spirits for religion. What does he k»ow about it? Ho has never b»eu tried.” But when one goesont aud reports to the world that that morning on his way to lousiness he called to see yon aud found you, after being kept in your room for two mouths, cheerful and hopefal, and that you had not one word of complaint, and asked all about everybody, aud rejoiced in the success of yonr business friends, although your own business had almost come to a standstill tbroagh your absence from store or office or shop, and that you sent you* love to all your old friends, and told them that If you did not meet them again in this world you hoped to meet them iu dominions seraphic, with a quiet word of advice from you to the man who carried the message about the importance of his not neglecting his own soul, but through Christ seeking something better than this world could give him—why, all the businessmen in the counting s«om say: “Good! Now, that is religion!” And the clerks get bold of the story aud talk it over, so that the weigher aud cooper aud hack- man standing ou the doorstep say: “That is splendid 1 Now, that is what I call religion ! M Effective Sermon*. It is a g«nd thing to preach on a Sun day morning, the people assembled in most rMp*r,tahh* attire and seated on soft cushions, the preac her standing in neatly uplMlstsanl pulpit surrounded by personal trieml* and after an inspiring hymn has been sung, and that sermon if preached ra faith will do good, hut the rucrahrffecltTe sermon is preached by one setrtal in dressing gown in an arm chair mGf wMah tire invalid has with much mm hem lifted, the surrounding shdva* Ailed with medicine bottles, soma hr rrndwaa sleep, some for the re lief of awden paroxysm, some for stim ulant, mho f«r tonie, some for anodyne and soarr febrifuge, the pale preach- «r qnotiag proaaiseH of the gospel, telling of the gUriea of a sympathetic Christ, asMiriwgtke «m0 or two or three persons who haai it rtf the mighty re-enforco- mentr etf rrliflon. You say that to such a h rma» thm are only ouu or two or three taMrm J»y* I But the visitor call- iug at Ujrt Npw, thwi closing the door softly aud going away, tells the story, and tho whole neighborhood hears it, and it w4fc tdfe all eternity to realize the gMMtf md uplifting influence of that mMsu Ann! God and the soul, though preached to an audience of only one man or am woman. The Lord has ordained aH MNft invalids for a style of usclalRMT whfefc athletics and men of 200 hwakfer UMtfrdupois cannot affect. It was Mb m Meiay that fastened you iu that rtMtn or sent you*on crutches, the longett joMuey you have made for many weeks fading from bed to sofa and from sofa to looking glass, where you are shocked ad the pallor of your own cheek 4to4hK’bwLM6Bs of your fea tures, then hack again from mirror to sofa, and sofe to bed, with a long sigh saying, “How good it feel* to get hack again to my old place ou tho pillow. ” Remember who it is that appointed the day when for the first time in many years yob oo^H net go to bnsiuess, and who ha* kept a record of all the weary days and all the sleepless nights of your exile f*Mi th* world. Oh, weary man! Oh, faedfe wwtoan ! It was tho Lord who shut ywa in. Do yon remember that some etf tha aohlest and best of men have been prisoners? Ezekiel a prisoner, Jeremiah a prisoner, Paul a prisoner, St. John a prisoner, John Buuyan a prison** Though human hate seemed to have adi to do with them, really the Lord ahad them iu. Vojra«e. No doobt while ou that voyage Noah and his three sous and all the four ladies of the antediluvian world often thought of the katfght hillsides and the green field* where tfhap had walked aud of the homo* where they had lived. They hud had many yuare of experiences. Noah was 600 years old at tho time of this couvultioi of awturu. Hu had seen GOO springtinaes, GOO summers, GOO au tumns, Odd winters. We are not told how old his wife was at this wreck of earth and sky. Thu Bible tells the age of a great many men, hut only once give* a tNbiaa^i age. At one time it gives Adam's age as EJO years and Jared’s !*m a* 102 years aud Enoch’s age as 2A ysaa, aiul all up and down the Bible U gfvas the age of men, hut does not give tho age of women. Why? Bocausa, I suppose, a woman’s age is none of o«r business. Hut all the mun and woaMi that towed iu that oriental craft had lived long enough to remem ber a great many of tho mercies and kindness** of (Jod, aud they could not blot onh and 1 think they had no dis position to blot out, tho memory of those brightnesses, though now they were shut in. hfeithar should tho shut iu of our tlto* forgot the blessings of tho past. Ilavt you been blind for ten years? Thank G«d for the time when you saw as clearly as any of us can see aud let the pagMsa* of all the radiant landscapes and illumined skies which you ever looked upM kindle y*ur rapturous grati tude. I 4* not sue Raphael’s “Madonna di Kan 8i*to” in tho picture gallery of Dresden, aor Rubens' “Descent From the Gres*” at Antwerp, nor Michael Angelo’s “Last Judgment" on tho ceil ing of th* Vatican nor tit. Sophia at ConttanliMiple, nor tho Parthenon on tho Acrojwlis, nor the Taj Mahal of In dia, but skull 1 not thank God that 1 have seen them? Is it possible that such midnight darkness shall ever blast my vision that 1 cannot call them up again? Perhaps you are so deaf that you cannot hear the akirp of bird or solo of cuuta- trice or *veu organ in full diapason, though yoo feel the foundations tremble under Its inajestie roll, or even the thunderstorm that makes Mount Wash ington *aho. But are you not grateful that one* you could hear trill and chant I and ear*l 4c.\<>lnfry? I cannot this hour bear.IcAflf; Lind sing “Ooiniu Through tho Rye,’ 7 or ule Bull’s enchanted viol, or Purepa Rosa’s triumphant voice over iiiany tiMSwands of voices and many thousand* of instrument* in the nation al pea** gfeileo of U1J ye.vg ago, all ItrinOM i* i- nIW these sounds accompanied by the ring ing of bells and the guns ou Boston Common, but can I ever have my tars so silenced that 1 will not remember that I did hear them? Are you chained to your room now, your powers of loco motion all gone, or if coming to the house of God every step is a torture? Do you forget when, in childhood, you danced and skipped because you were so full of life you had not patience to walk, and in aftsr years you climb d tho mountains of Switzerland, putting your alpenstock high up on glaciers which lew others ever dared aud jump ed long reaches iu competition and after a walk of ten miles you came iu jocund as the morning? O you shut ins, thank God for a vivid memory of the times when yon were free as the chamois on the rocks, as the eagle going straight for the sun! When the rain pounded the roof of tho ark, the eight voyagers on that craft did not forget the time when it gayly pattered in a summer shower, aud when the door of the ark shut to keep out the tempest they did not forget the time when the door of their home iu Armenia was closed to keep out the spring rains which came to fill the cups of lily aud honeysuckle aud make all tho tress of the wood clap their hands Sufe From Temptation. Again, notice that during that 40 days of storm which rocked that ship on that universal ocean of Noah’s time tho door which shut the captain of tho ship inside the craft kept him from many outside perils. How those wrath ful seas would like to have got their wet hands ou Noah and pulled him out and sunk him ! Aud do all of you of the great army of the shut iu realize that, though you have special temptations where you are now, how much of the outside style of temptation you escape? Do you, the merchant incarcerated iu the sickroom, realize that every hour of the day you spend looking out of tho window, or gazing at tho particular fig ure on the wall paper, or listening to the clock’s ticks men are being wrecked by tho allurements aud uncertainties of business life? How many forgeries are committed, how many trust fund* are swamped, how many public moneys aro being misappropriated, how many bank ruptcies suffered! It may he. it is, very uncomfortable for Noah inside the ark, fer the apartment i* crowded aud the air is vitiated with tho breathing of so much human and animal life*, but it is not half as bad for him as though he were outside tho ark. There is not an ox, or a carnal, or an antelope, or a sheep inside the ark as badly off as the proudest king outside. While yon are on the pillow or lounge you will make no had bargains, yon will rush into no rash investments, yon will avoid the mistakes which thousands of men as good as you are every day making. Notice also that there was a limit to fhe shut iu experiwacc *f tboae MMieut mariners. I r/ippoee the 40 days of the descending an-.i uprising floods and the lAO days before the passengers could go ashore must have seemed to those eight people in the big boat like a small eter nity. “Rain, rain, rain!” said the wife of Noah. “Will it never stop?” For 40 mornings they looked out aud saw not one patch of blue sky. Floating around amid the peaks of mountains Shorn and Ham aud Japhetb had to hush the fears of their wives lest they should dash against the projecting rocks. But after awhile it cleared off. Buusbine, glorious sunshine! The ascending mists were folded up into clouds, which instead of darkening the sky only ornamented it. As they looked out of the windows these worn passengers clapped their hands aud rejoiced that the storm was over, aud I think if God could stop such a storm us that he could stop any storm in your lifetime experience. If ho can control a vulture in midsky, be can stop a summer, bat that flies hi at your window'. At the right time he will put the rainbow on the cloud and the deluge of your misfortunes will dry up. I preach the doctrine of limitation, relief and disci.thrallmcnt. At just the right time the pain will cease, the bondage will drop, the imprisoned will ho liberated, the fires will go out, the body and mind aud soul will be free. Patience! An old English proverb re ferring to long continued invalidism says, “A creaking gate hangs long on its binges," and this may be a protract ed case of valetudinarianism, bat you will have taken the last bitter drop, you will have suffered the lust misin terpretation, you will feel the gnawing of the last hunger, you will have faint ed the last time from exhaustion, you will have felt the cut of tho last lancet, you will have wept under the last loneliness. Thu last week of tho Noaehi- uu deluge came, the last day, the last hour, the last moment The beating of the rain ou the roof ceased, ami tho dashing of the billow’s on the side of the ship quieted, aud peacefully as a yacht moves out over quiet Lake Cayuga, Como or Lazerne the ark, with its il lustrious passengers and important frieght, glided to its mountain wharf age. < beep Fop the Sick. Notice also that on the cessation of the deluge the shut ins came out, and they built their houses and cultured their gardens and started a new world on the ruins of the old world that had been drowned not. Though Noah lived «J.j0 years after this worldwide aoci dent and no doubt his fellow passengers survived centuries I warrant they never got over talking about that voyage. Now I have seen Doro’s pictures and many other pictures of the entrance into the ark, two and two, of tho human family and the animal creation into that ship which sailed between two worlds —antediluvian world and tho post diluviau world—but I never saw a pie ture of their coming out; yet their em barkation was not more important than their disembarkation. Many a crew has entered a ship that never landed. Wit ness the steamer Portland, a few days ago, with 100 souls on hoard, going down with all its crew and passengers. Witness the line of sunken snips, reach ing like a aubt'iuriMu cable of anguish across tho ocean depth* from America t>> Europe. If any ship might expect complete wreckage, the one Noah com manded might have expected it. But no; those who embalked disembarked. Over the plunk reaching down tho side of the ark to tho Armenian cliffs ou which the y had been stranded the pro cession descended. No other wharf felt iv solid or afforded such attractiveness as that height of Ararat when tho oight passengers put their leet ou it. And no sooner had the last one, tho invalided wife of Japheth, been helped down tho plank upon the rock than the other apartments of the ship were opened, and such a dash of bird music never filled the air as when the entire orchestra of robin redbreast, aud morning lark, aud chaffinch, and mocking bird, and house swallow took wing into tho bright sky, while tho cattle began to low and the sheep to bleat and the horses to neigh for the pasture, which from tho awful submergence had now begun to grow green aud aromatic. I tell you plaiuly nothing interests me more in that trag edy from the first to the last act than the “exit” and the “cxe iut, ” than the fact that the “shot ins” became tho “got outs.” Aud I now cheer with this story all the inmates of sickrooms and hospitals, and those prisons were men and women are unjustly endungeoned, and all the thousands who are bounded on the north and south and east and west by floods, by delnges of misfortune and disaster. The ark of your trouble, if it doc* not land on some earthly height of vindication aud rescue, will land on the heights celestial. l*at Yo*r Tra*t In God. If you have put your trust iu God, yon will come out iu the garden of the King, among orchards bending with 12 manner of fruits and harvests that wave iu the light of a sun that never sets. As the eight passengers of that craft of Captain Noah never got over talking about their seafaring experiences, so you who have been tho shut ins of earth will add unbounded interest to the conversation of heave* by recalling and reciting your earthly experiences, and the rougher those experiences tbe more thrilling will they be to yourself and others who listen. As when we sit amid a group of soldiers and hear their story of battle or a group of sailors and hour their story of cyclones we feel stupid because wo have nothing in our life wortli telling, how uninteresting will ha those souls in heaven who had smooth sailing all their lives aud no accidents, while Noah tells his story of the delude and Lot his story of escape from de stroyed cities aud Paol his Story of the Alexandrian corn ship and you tell your story of tho days and nights and years of the times when yon were shutiu! You will bo interesting and sought aftwi in heaven in proportion as you aro mar tyrized of persecution aud pain on earth. And surely you d« not watrt to get the advantage of heavenly association and consideration without yourself adding some interest to the interview. I bail all the shut ins because they will be the oome outs. Heaven will be all the brighter for your earthly privations aud environments. Fora man who has al ways lived iu a mansion and walked iu fine gardens aud regaled his appetite on best fruits and had warmest furs for winter attire aud coolest linens for Au gust heat aud brilliant earthly sur roundings heaven will not bo so much a change of scene. He will be disposed to say: “Why, lam usedtothis! Don’t show me the gardens! Why, I was brought up atChutsworth. Don’t invite me into a chariot; 1 always had a splen did turnout. Don't invite me to the feast I have been accustomed to Bel- sbnzzariau banquets. It would be a re lief to me if 1 could leave heaven a lit tle while aud rough it iu some other world. ” But what a heaven it will be for those whose limbs were so rheumatic they could not take a step when they get wings I What a heaven it will ho for those who were always sick, when they aro always well, and after 20 years of pain to have millions of years of health! What a light will he the light of heaven for those who on earth could not see their hand before their faces! And what will the music of heaven be to those the tympanum of whose ears for many years had ceased to vibrate! De nied ou earth the pleasure of listening to Handel and Haydn and Mendelssohn’s symphonies, at last reaching a world where there has never been a discord, aud hearing singing where all aro per fect songsters, and oratorios in which all the nations of heaven chant! Great heaven it will be for all who got there, but a hundred times more of a heaven for those who were shut in. Dlviae Sympathy. Meanwhile you have all divine and angelic sympathy in your infirmities. That satan thoroughly understood poor human nature was evidenced when in plotting to make Job do wrong the great master of evil, after having failed iu every other way to overthrow the good man, proposed physical distress, and then the boils came which made him swear right out. The mightiest test of character is physical suffering. Critics are impatient at tho way Thomas Car lyle scolded at everything. His TO years of dyspepsia were enough to make any man scold. When you see people out of patience and irascible and lachrymose, inquire into the case, and before you get through with the exploration your hypercriticism will turn to pity, and to the divine and angelic sympathy will be added your own. Tbe clouds of your indignation, which were full of thun derbolts, will begin to rain tears of pity. | By a strange providence, for which I shall ha forever grateful, circumstances | with which I think you arc all fa miliar, I have admission through the uewspupur press week by week to tens of thousand* of God’s dear children who cannot enter church ou the Sab bath and hear their excellent pastors because of the age of the sufferer*, or their illnusa, or the lameness of foot, or their incapacity to ttay iu one position an hour and a half, or their poverties, or their troubles of komu sort will nut let them go cut of doors, aud to them as much ns to those who bear me I preach this sermon, as I preach many of my sermons, tho invisible audience always vaster than the visible, some of them tossed ou wilder seas than those that tossed the eight inemberHof Noah's faaiily. and instead of 40 days of storm and five months of being shut in. as they were, it has been with these in- ! valids five years of “shutiu,” or ten years of “shut in," or 20 years of “shutiu.” Ob, comforting God! Help 1 me to comfort them! Give me two hands full of salve for their wonuds. When we were !500 miles out at sea, a hurricane struck us, and the lifeboats , were dashed from the davits aud all tho , lights iu the cabin were put out by the i rolling of the ship and the water which through the broken skylights had poured in. Captain Andrews entered and said ! to the men on duty: “Why don’t you light up and make things brighter, for we are going to outride this storm? Passengers, cheer up! Cheer up!” And be struck a match and began to light tho burners. He could not silence either tho wind or tho waves, hut by tho striking of that match, accompanied by encouraging words, wo were all helped. I.iKht In I):irk»«-nM. And as I now find many iu hurricanes of trouble, though I cannot quiet tho storm. I can strike a match to light up tho darkness, aud I strike a match. “Whom the Lord loveth he chasteuetfa. ” l strike another match. “Weeping may endure for a iwgfal, hut joy cone th iu the morning.” 1 strike another match. “We have a grtal High Priest who can be touched with the feeling of our in firmities, and he was iu all points tempt ed like a* we are.” Arc you old? One breath of heaven will make you ever lastingly young again. Have you aches and pains? Tfaay insure Chri'-t’s presence ami sympathy through the dark( st De cember ulgfata, which are the longest nights of the year. Aro you bereft? Here i* a resurrected Christ, whose voioe is full of resorrectionary power Arc you l*cj*ly? All the angels of heav en are ready to swoop into your com panionship. Here ia the Christ of Alary aud Martha when they had lost Lazarus, and of David when he hud lost his son, aud of Abraham when he had lost Burab, and of your futhes and mother when is time of old age they parted at the gates of the tomb. When last I was iu Savau- mth, ah th* close of tbe Sabbath morn ing service, i wa* anted to go and see a Christian woman, for many years an in valid. 1 westh. I k*d not in all that beautiful city of splendid men and gra cious women seen a face brighter than her* fewoMng her bedside, I put out my band, hut she could not shako hands, for her hand was palsied. I said to her, “Uotr king have you been down on this bed?” She smiled and made no answer, for her tongue had been palsied, but thnaa atanMnc *roaud said, “Fif teen years.” 1 said to her, “Have yon been able to keep your courage up all that tims?” She gave a very little mo tion of her head in affirmation, for her whole body was paralytic. The sermon I had preached that morning had no power *n others compared with the power that silent sermon had on me. What wm the secret of her conquest over pain mid privation aud incapacity to move? Shall I tell you the secret? I will tell you. Tho Lord shut her iu. Lathor’a Faith. There it • good deal of fanaticism abroad about tbe recovery of tbo sick, but if we hod at much faith as Martin Luther we would have Luther’a suc cess. His friend Myconius was very ill, and Luther fell upon his knees and said: “OLocd, no! Thon must not yet take oar brother Myconius to thyself. Thy cause will not proiper without him. Amen.” Then he wrote: “My Dear Myconius— There is no cause fof fear. The Lord will not let me hoar that you aro dead. You shall not aud must not die. Amen.” Luther’s letter so excited My- couius that an uloer ou his lungs broke, and ho got well. Would to God that like that we might be able to pray, that wo might have similar results 1 Oh, men and women, visible and invisible, tho probability is you will never write your autobiography. It is tho most dif ficult book to write, because you are tempted to omit passages in your lift tbat were nut complimentary to your self, and to quote from a diary, which is always incomplete, because there are some things which you do not think best to write down. As you will not undertake an autobiography, the story of yourself, I will take the responsibil ity of preventing your biography, which is tho story of one’s life by some one else. If yoe will give your love and trust to him of Bethlehem and Calvary, this will be your biography: “Born at the right time, but the most important event iu hi* life was when he was born again. Died at the right time, but long before that be hud died unto sin. He had many crises, but iu all of them was divinely directed; weaknesses, hut they were divinely sympathized with. In his life there were many sorrows, wave after wave, storm after storm, hut he outrode everything aud landed iu eternal safety. Why? Why? Because the Lord shut him iu. ” Bit do not think that heaven is made up of an indiscriminate population, home of my friends are so generous in their theology that they would let every body in without reference to condition , or character. Do not think that liber tines aud blasphemers aud rejecters of j God and his gospel have “letters of credit” that will draw anything from | the bank of heaven. Pirate cralts will not he permitted to go up that harbor, if there are those who a* to heaven are to ho “shut ins, “there are those who will belong to the “shut outs.” Heaven has 12 gates, aud while those 12 gates imply widu open entrance for those who are properly prepared to enter them they imply thsl there are at irast 12 possibilities that many will he shut out, bfosito ■ *At« is of no use unless it can sometimes he closed. Heaven is not an unwashed mob. Show your tickets or you will not get in—tickets that you may get without iu«nej and witboat price, tickets with a cross and n cr*wn upon them. Let the imrepentsDt aud the vile and the offscourings of eartl* enter heaven as they now are. aud they would depreciate aud demoralize IS so that no one of us would want to enter, and those who are there would want to- move out. The Bible speaks of the “withonts” as well as the “within*. Revelation xxii, 15, “Without are dogB aud sorcerers and whoremongers and murderers aud idolaters aud whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.” Through th* converting, pardoning, sanctifying gaace of God may we at last be found ament; the shut ins aud not among th* Aafc outs 1 YOU MUST have pure Mood flbr ■ {Tood health. Hood's Sarsaparilla purities the blood. Take Hood’s Sar saparilla if you would be well. OSBORNE’S AiiKiioa.G* Actual Hu*ines«. No Ten laakv Short time. Cheap board. Sen? for Catalogue. Ohio River and Charleston Railway Co., T IME T.\ DI.Enf t he Oh In Hirer and < bMc- !<>n Railway Company, conjunct ly «*tt> tlie South Carolina and (jcoij/ia Kailroatl. Schedcle in effect May Kith. Is:is. NoitTH sorm Boirxn.! Eastern Jimo. ; Lv. 7 33 | . M. (S. ('. G.) 1*. M. 7 lh 1 CIIAKM.S ! ( C V Ar Ite- !) I BEAM IIVIU. F. 1 47 Id Id | KINGSVU.f | ” 4 2K \ M. (<». IE .A .) P. M 12 ”5 ‘ (AMDEN •• * 35 1 »>5 | KEIiSlI \ W •* i r/> 1 50 LA \( 'ASTI 1. ” ur M» - ^ CATAU P.A .1 I N. JTON •• a er. 2 55 POCK M II.1. •• it *> :i :«i yoi;k vn.;.! “ ti (O 4 3.» I!EA( KSIit K j " 10 lift 5 1" 1. ARES !» :a> ii PATTEIISt»\ si'i; INGS •* U 2V 6 (K) SHELLY •• a i» 6 4” e.viitmmi:! ” ft :.tv r. 55 M(m>i;e-i;ok J •• « H» 7 1" H EMMETT A ” 7 r*> . .... ! OK ESC t IT T '• 7 nr, s in lit TIIEKI (»KD' 'ON f. .Ni S 3(1 Mil.Wool) •• n :r> s .Vi GOLDEN V M.I EY. •• r, id THERMAE Cl i'Y '' 6 OP •' 25 GLEN Woo; " R 4Tr . K 5< J MARION Ev. » 2D >. M. A 0 ^ G.otnky Hu am m. sorm KTII I . M \ M. . 7 5(> HLAeKSBU 1! a Ev. g Or 7 35 CHEROKEE 1 A ELS ” C 1.5 4 k> GAFFNEY Ar. *a> *. M. | P. M Ev. 7 Trains north of Camden run daily S tutiay. trains between Charleston and KimNHMfc- run daily. For Information as to rates. Clyd* Atoc Sailing, etc., call on local contract!** Aim! travclimr agents of both roads, or L. A. EMERSON. T. M.. E. ['.GRAY. S. C. & G. K. It.. Traffic Manauta-. Charleston. S. C. <Tncimiata, S. II LUMPKIN. Gen’l. Freip-ht and Pass. Agent, lilitckshura'. S. C. SOUTHERN RAILWAgfr 1 ftahadtei* of Fasaom* I* Mac* Oft. 16, 1906. !to*tbfcond. fWo.12 DiUIt At*u»»».O.T Atlanta, K. T Koverm* Buford. fitaiBMvtta. To««m» Wortininatar Srntsca g Mitral roonrtfio... Spariasbur*. (tafferjr*. ... Blacksburg.. hiufjr'okft ... Gastonia VbarAdt* . . Urecntboro \e*. No. 33 Daily. 00 m OJ p 11 31 aft i LI to *1 tl M a? 3 T DO alj2 8» a*! • W aj. ki as * 10 86 aj 2 S at *' fi 13 81m 12 68 pj 4 14«p 3*4 » 5: ■ 07 p { « 4 20 p G 4 M Pi 7 1 [top... ia hi... • tops . • to p 10 43 p .GrvrastxrN.. . Norfolk Ar. Dannlta _. ▲r Birfiiuoud .. Ar .Washington Halt in V PI1R. rhilatlalfihta. New- York ... 10 50 p 7 50 a 11 * p II 5! p . • 40 a iTIo a SetulhhoaaH. PhiladtOjAla " kallMnora. . Waakfettan. Lr. Kirbnumd I/r.,LaBrMV^ i _ Lv. Norfolk . Ar. Nreeanbora kVi.ili No. as 6 42 8 03 10 15 a , 11M3 m Ve*. No. 37 all.Y, . b* a a 6 56 o> A) a ,10 4* No. Ill Daily! • 15 j. i 5 30 ^ 0 35 p 6 45 a 610 10 45 1 26 afft 30 Lv C. r*t'**hrvro Ar Chnrtort* . Lr. 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'f*«- mg-li Pullil el«oi>.ay rar* baiwaoH How York and Newt hims. via Waakkigten, At licits and M'lntp] •ry, und niao Uilwaeu Kc v Y tW ■nd Mcinj v.mIVre.hingtou.Atlantani d Kiratmghnm. cite-* thorough!aru roacht -> hidw on Was ton timl Athuuv Dining ear* aai va all i an route. Pullman iDawcu' room slemiini between Gt-MHrtbori and Norfndt. trlow neetion at Forfulk for OLD POINT COM! arm-ing tb«r* in time for breaUfaet. Noe. 44 aud 16—United Ktatc* Fast ran* eoM berw-au Wanhingtcm anti Nt hvuia, na NwaiSm-n iUthvny, A. A W. P. aud E. A N. A. it.. IriUig corniioaud of r rar aud rnariioe through with cat e nance pBH-ergrrP'«f nil e!a»«*.s Pnllinnrt drav n-m *e«o..a< o*r« between New York* New Orient y.a Atlanta .Aid .V ntgoBli litering TVauhiuctoe tMch Weda»s*iriy at electing ear wJM rue tbroagh iMiweoa' Prancteuo with ■ut inr-ton and Man No*. 11. J', .A a«id -Pulfmtn •• ept w rwven Nirhueuifl and (’IrtrluUe. vi t DuBt i*. *1 hi.** ad Nos. a or. north bo nod I* and 12 Fy* N « H WANNON. 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