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F. O. Stai^y. [’resident. J. G. WARMjAW. Vico I’rosldon THE NATIONAL BANK OF GAFFNET. Capital $50,000.00. Wit.i. buy cnunly i-kiims, reccivo doposit. and make lllu'iiil iimns on appntvi'd paper 1). C. Host*. Cashier. Oi' 1>I 1 ill 1 iv<£;o i^clitioii. The Gaffney Daily Ledger. iktr». Tin; m;h i.i.bi,-to.s!;. ik! !». The l.imostime of other days, the fatuous (•ol.eje of Hie CurtiiMtH and 01 ( aptuiu II 1*. (irihlth, lias a larpe plie e In tl.e (ilstory of nithern t ducat ion. liven Greater Is the l.iniCHtom of today. The hivhest ofs.land- nrils. t In - b . t ot u<irk, the ablest of Facu.t les, the l| nest, <if i.iteii:! t (lulpn.entt;. it 1 ! theso t xplnitl the :.I| •ee's of the itistltut ion. I.wne- stone's «ti,..r Is <>p. a wide to till our 1:in • ts. Let. them enter in. I'nr Infi.t'mjtlon uIkhiI 1 In' t.'olh'^e apoly to t he I’n •-ideiit, t.i i; is i.< 11 k> 1.. >i., pit it. A Newspaper in all that the Word Implies and Devoted to the Best Interests of the People of Cherokee County. ESTABLISHED FEI5. 10, 1894. GAFFNEY CITY, 8. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER .30, 1899. ? 1.00 A YEAR * WELL ORPHANAGE. What It Is Doing for the Lit tle Waifs. A NOBLE WORK INDEED. The Keiiiarkuhle G rowth of the Orphan age In the Past Seven Years- -Reason Why it. Should :s -scowled by the itaptist of ; be no mean work in itself, when we besides, the burden can he more equitably distributed, inasmuch as the institution draws out a multitude of small contributions which would never be given to the cause were it left to direct individual effort. The homeless need much more than bread and labor, if work they can; they need homes. And this idea is most excellently carried out at our orphan age by its system of having several cottages, each with its group of children and its matron, after the manner of home life. The benevolent, caring for over one ! hundred orphan children, seems to South Carotioa. The keeping of the orphan child ren is s > evidently one of the duties of the Christian that James, the au thor of I lie NYw Teblumont epistle j bear in mind what is being done for ' them. Apart from the mere fact I that such a work is the fulfillment of I a Chr’stian duty and the carrying out of a noble impulse, it is certain that the moral religious training which is - % ■■ 4 ftS Trv-',. .• mmw' i it*. U fei ■ IfcT -' Jt r- i W* .vVY-L --Ttii ffe-k-fa 1 unm I’ |j!. . i'iJ.J 1 — ■ W i i: l % hp. ' | : - r 1 1 r f ,T / .... . . -'i ■ v, 1 ' ;• vW.l:.v yv 'v - ■ DURST IIOMIC. that bears liis name, sets down the visitation of the fatherless in their affliction as one of the constituent qualities of pure and undefiled relig ion before God and the Father. No Christian work h more Christian- like than the helping of the helpless. And none are more helpless than the little children that have been bereft of father and mother and hove none who are able or v.illing to take care of them. The cry of such helpless ones is so touching that many a churehiess and probably unbelieving heart is moved by it to lend a help ing hand, and the soul that is not given to the children there must bear its blessed fruit in lives that shall make the world brighter as they themselves were brightened under the fostering care of the institution. | None can estimate the good which tnav thus spring from this source. While the orphanage is in no evil sense a sectarian institution, its doors being open as wide as wisdom and means will allow, yet it may be expected to be of special benefit to the iiaptists, and to make them stronger in more ways than one. It wili not directly add many to their number, but its indirect effects v.il! be most full of blessing. Like the work of the state missions, the sup port of the orphanage will, under ; fi ; . : - L~: jj isrf'aLiV I 1 MICMORIA I. IIOMF. melted to pity and moved to help at such a time, even though it should tiave u seemingly high place in some Christian church, is most certainly destitute of one of the most strikin'' o imurks of the Christian. While the giving of money or the founding of an institution for help ing the needy cannot justly satisfy all the claims that may come to us in a personal and direct way, without the intervention of the organization, yet we may do more good and do it •better often!imes by combining and isysletnizing the tlforts of the many, rather than by relying upon isolated wise leadership and management, lend to give our people more of that spiritual solidarity and unity in which they are too much lacking. Such a bond among Haptists must necessarily bo one of hearty growth, since it cannot como by the applica tion of an external force, such as we find in denominations which are held together, like the staves in a barrel, by the hoops of hierarchy. Nothing can give it but the indwelling spirit of Christ in individual hearts prompt ing tliem to wiser co operation in Christian benevolence. Participa tion in the good work of the Orphan age will do a great deal to bring the churches and their people closer to gether. This fact has already been IN FIRM.Un- tlie spirit of humanity and generous giving. Our people are many f but they are for the most part in sad need of all the training that may be aiforded by the opportunities of giv ing to our various departments of Christian work. The appeal from the helpless children may open many a heart that could not so well bo reach ed by other appeals, and through the gate thus opened the grace of a well rounded Christian benevolence may come in, The blessing of God lias seemed to attend from the start the ellorts of the denomination to establish and carry on the work of the Connie Maxwell Orphanage. And we have treason to believe that the work which has been so well begun has the provi dence of God, yet greater proportions before it. Much needs to ho done in the way of providing facilities for giving the young people training in mechanical and industrial arts. There ought to be a well equipped printing office and shops for carpentry and mechanics. And not only does the institution need to be made more if lie unit and to be better provided f<>r to take care of the children wiio are there, but there are continual appli cations for admittance which cannot lie enter'.ained. There is, lhcrefore, abundant room for enlargement. And we may not do well to doubt that we have here one of the divinely ex-ended opportunities for the prac tice of a pure and uiult filed religion —an open poor through which many a blessing may go from us to make glad and pure the hearts of the deso late little ones, while through the same door there conics to us the lov ing benedictions of Him wiio took the children up in His arms and blessed them, and who said, ‘Tt is more blessed to give than to receive.” Tli*'! irx!. Cry of the Orphans. The first cry of the orphans is for the means of life. It is not much; and yet it is much to them. That they have not these common necessi ties is not their fault. They are not responsible for their advent into this not hallowed am! sweet. \Ye, fathers, mothers, children of the great host of Baptists in South CnrolUia, will not forget the Connie Maxwell boys and girls, but will furnish them food and clothes, a chance to live and a chance to make life worfh the Lying. If we fail, their distress will be our shame and guilt, But we shall not fail. WTiiil tlic Institution IlitiiAl •:u\y Arrouip- ! tailed. Hard by the busy, growing town of Greenwood, not a part of her but like some little Indian village under her B r /Mm (’. P. ElvVTN, D. !>. Homes”, nr/1 carefully qvrintemlent. May day, the fouml a heme one building own Sachem, lies the closely nestled together n watched < ver by the Sop Seven years ago on a first child, a little girl, within the walls of tho of that time. The years since, have wrought wonders. The generous gifts of kind friends have made it possible to build, furnish and fill with or phan children five substantial brick “Homes.” The chapel and school There are now seven grades taught by three teachers. From all over the state the chil dren come, almost every county from the sea to the “old North State” is represented. They come from homes that are homes no longer because father and mother have passed be yond the veil. Often they are brought ere the clods have settled over the new made graves. How the little hearts must ache, for the mother love, yet they try to be brave, try to be good. There is something touch ingly tender in the little white-robed figures as they kneel to say their evening prayers. In no little petition of theirs can they add, as your chil dren do “God bless father and moth er.” But soon the wistful anxious look fades from the eyes, and they are happy here. The grove is filled during play hours with their mirth and gay laughter. Those children are taught to take care of themselves, part of each day is given to different kinds of work. They are being trained for life, real life begins so soon for them. Each Sabbath, the ringing of the- beli calls the children of each home to service and Sabbath School in the chapel, where they are taught from the book of books. Nor is the Sav ior’s injunction “Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not” neglected. A number have joined the church and have been bap- tiz^d. their child faith is simply beautiful. And now is not the mak ing of one good boy or girl out of a had one an effort worthy of self-sacri fice? “With God there is no great and small.” Some of these little ones gathered from the way-side and hedg es may be Bunions or Spurgeons as the years roil on. Who can say tiiere is not sleeping in some of these boy ish bosoms courage far grander than that displayed by the “Hero of Ma nilla,” courage to carry the Gospel of I Peace to those same darkened Is lands. Wo almost dare lift the cur tains of time a little and see no fur distant day when the Baptists of our sufficient for them, kindness and sympathy, practical edueatiun and Christian training—a chance in the world.. They are saved thereby from want, abuse, ignorance and vice. If of ali God’s works “an honest man is the noblest” surely man can do no nobler work in this world than to take helpless, hopeless orphans and make of them honest men, good citizens and useful citizens. It is commendatory at one and the same time of both this noble charity and our human nature, with all its faults, that the appeal in behalf of the orphans meets so ready response in the hearts of men. “Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this: To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction and to keep himself unspot ted from the world.” Most of us ev- » drink in my name because >e belong to Christ, verily I say unto you, he shall not lose his reward.” While he said Ihia in regard to kindness shown liis d'sciples or believers on Him, and workers for Him. The principle is capable of infinite extention as so forceably set forth in the parable of the goo 1 Samaritan. Clarcneo Pawley Lrvln. D. I). Was born in Darlington, S. C., May 11, 1851. Jfis boyhood and early manhood wore spent in the home of his uncle, Dr. W. J. Dargan, of Greenville. While in this home he beg*;.} his studies at Furman Uni versity, September, 1SG9. In June, 1S7J, he finisheiP the regular A. B. course. He held 1 he position of tutor id Furman University, 187'.)- 1881. Before this he had left his „ 'i' prn “» ' ' SUPERINTKX DLNT’s II OM K OF CO N M K MAXW FI.I, OR FI i .< N , K . idently have* an adulterated article. God calls himself the “father of the fatherless and the husband of the widow,” surely we should at least attempt to bo like God in his disin terested benevolence. “He muketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good and sendeth rain on the just j and on.the'unjust.” “Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Fother whfch is in Heaven is perfect.” That is to say, after the same inannerf as the con text shows. Like God in disinterest ed benevolence. Wo worship God best when wo strive to imitate him. Crude indeed, if not spurious, is that Christianity that extends no helping hand to destitute orphaned child hood. In the great day when the books are opened and every man’s impress as a school teachoj in the State of North Carolina. Then in 1877 he had gone to the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary at Louisville, where he remained two years. His first pastorale was at Pendleton, S, C., where he was or dained to the Gosp’d ministry in 1882. Ir. ioSl) he vas calhd t>> ti e pas torate of the chur.-h at Bamberg. S. C.. where he remained for more than eleven years. Durint'this long pas torate it was evident that he could direct the affairs of a church with energy, firmness and wisdom. The Bamberg chuieh grew strong under his ministry. He made his influence fiii religiously, rr.oraily, end politi cally, not only throng!;out Barnwell county hut throughout the State. M IT 11 HOMK. » H individual efforts. The Uiitjtution cun f ted. clothe, protect, train and edut ate a groat deal better and at lens coat than the same thing could possibly he done by Individuals with out the combination of effort .which is afforded by an institution. And ; the orphanage shown to a considerable degree by such substantial agreement ur.d co operation in the midst of differing opinions. No little good will accrue to the the denomination from its support of in the cultivation of world; they are not responsible for the bleak need which surrounds their young and tender lives; they are not responsible for their helplessness in the presence of these grim, stern wants. Bread—that their hungry, growing little bodies may not famish ; clothing—that they may not be blis tered by the heat of summer, or chilled by the blasts of winter. Lit- t le inexperienced strangers they stand upon the borderland of this great, strange, struggling, fascinating life without the protecting and providing hands which succored the rest of us, and ask that they may be given a lit tle chance, may not be crushed upon the very threshold by the monster adversity which heeds not the tender claims of childhood and yields only before disciplined strength. They ask for a chance to live, for bread and for clothes. It is a piteous ap peal to the heart of the world ; and it is also a commanding appeal to the consciences of men. For their cry is the utterance of a righteous claim with which every little child fronts the world. The lazy, trifling man, who shirks duly and labor cannot rightfully demand a living from the world. But the little child can. And the misfortune or even the sin and neglect of parents cannot abate the justness of the claim or weaken its divine sanction. The orphan has a right to bread and clothes. Its hun ger and suffering am a terrible indict ment of the world. Those one hundred and more little orphans at Greenwood are the wards of our Baptist people. We have opened for them a refuge and gather ed them within its walls and have acknowledged before God and man our responsibility for them. Who will furnish them bread and clothes? We—fathers, who as wo labor to fill the mouths and provide for the wants of our own ciiildren will not forget that the eyes of those li'tlo orphans are looking towards us; mothers, who, as they heap the plates of their little ones with good things and stitch the little garments and fit them upon the happy little forms of their own beloved, will not forget those who miss the soft touch of a mother's hand; the boys and girls who know not want, who have not felt the ach ing void in the heart of the orphan on whose little lips mama and pupa are names only for fading memories and alas? sometimes memories that are building, the Suporintendant’s home, sewing room, laundry and wind mill, barn, stables and other out-buildings all bear witness to the progress made. The nicely furnished Infirmary and hooks added to library bring comfort and much pleasure to the children. But you ask, what has the Institu tion done? what is it doing? Ita aim A. T. JAMISON. lias ever been to help the helpless— to give to orphan girls and boys a Christian family home—to raise up— to ennoble—to teach them the value of character—of industry—to bring them under good moral and religious influences—to make men and women fit to meet the demands of a dawning new century. More than two hundred children have found homes here. Home have been adopted into homes where they arc being educated anil fitted for the future. One little one was carried by angels to the “New Home” not built with hands. Five hours are given each day to school work. One class completed the ninth grade in Juno. Of the six teen in the higher grade, some are finishing their education elsewhere, thers have chosen occupations. grand old “i’alraetto State,” with a flush of pride, can place their hands upon the heads of the honored sons and daughters of Connie Maxwell Or phanage, and proudly say, “These arc our jewels.” Wiij’ .Should tlx: Itupttat Prove I.oyal to Their Oririmimge? A denomination must be respecta ble to he respected, must be respect ed to have influence, must have in fluence to serve God.” By their fruits ye shall know them” is sound philosophy, good sense and a splendid rule to follow. It is true of systems of government, morals and religious. It is true of denominations, doctrines, and churches. It is true of men, true of hooks, true of Him who speaketh, and the world has more unconsciously than purposely adopt ed that scriptural principle in esti mating things. What we do for the world and for God in educating, in charity, and in evangelization will determine the estimate put upon us in this world and in the next. We have founded it and partially equipped it, not too soon; the won der is we had not done it sooner. Whether it meets the needs for which it. was founded and fulfils the hopes and expectations of its founders or not, will depend upon its full develop ment and ample support. Like in stitutions of education and hoards for evangelization, like governments and churches, like religion itself, it must depend, from the very nature of tlio case, upon the loyalty of its constituency. “The poor always yc have with you” and their posterity is legion. Whether purposely or unconsciously the poor people more than any body else are obeying the first command ment ever given to man, Gen. 1:28. It may be the blame of some people that they are poor, but that is not true of children. Man’s pre-agency does not extend to the circumstances of his birth. It is not for us to In quire who did sin, this child or his parcels, that he is born poor and left orphaned. It is our opportunity to work while it is culled today and manifest the works of God. The fact is there are many chil dren left in the world destitute or phans, many very piteously so. Nothing can bo more important to them than that some kind hand and heart take them to u hospitable shel ter and give them food and raiment ciiildrkn’s ccttagk. record is read, by which he must stand or fall, go to the right hand or to the left, it will mako little differ ence who wo were in the world or what we knew, or had, or professed, or what creed we belonged to. It will mako ail the difference, however, whether or not in prison, sick, naked and hungry” we visited Christ with sympathy and love, with bread and clothing. And whether we did or did not will be determined by whether we did it to the least of His or did it not. Sentiment is not Christianity but sentiment applied is. When James sought for something suffi ciently inconsistant and absurd to illustrate faith that does ultimate in corresponding works, he hit upon the thought of one’s corning naked and In 1895 the trustees of Furman Uni versity conferred on him the degree of D. I). In the spring of 1.897, lie f entered a field within the bounds of | the Spartanburg Association, and at | present his home is in the pleasant j little town of Wellfcrd. He is secre- ! tary of the South Carolina Baptist ; State Convention, a trustee of Con- | nie Maxwell Orphanage, and is on , the editorial force of The Baptist i Courier. n< V A. T. .lamtaon. I!»v. Artis T. Jamison came to South Carolina from Tennessee. He was for several years Secretary of ' the Y. M. C. Association in Charles- l ton. After his decision to enter the i ministry, lie attended the Southern ( IIAPLI, OF CONN IK MAXWKI I. OltPH ANAOK. destitute of food, ami receiving many well wishes and ‘ hope you good lucks” unaccompanied by a single crust or rag. With great and persuasive empha sis Christ set forth the blessedness of this work when He said, “For whoso ever shall give you a cup of water to Baptist Theological Seminary at Lou isville,Ky. He has been pastor of the Camden Baptist church for several years. At the organization of the Bap- tist Young People's Union (’onvatnon some years ago, he was chosen 1’resi- (V’ONTlNl'Eb OX PAGE ssfcYKN. j