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DR. TALMAGE SAYS WE SHOULD BAN
ISH SELFISHNESS.
Cites the Example of Job. Who Was
Delivered l-'ro))! Evil When He
Prayed For Ills Friends—Happlnesa
Cornea From Doingr Good.
Washington, Nov. 11.—In this dis
course Dr. Talmage wars on narrow
ness of view and urges a life helpful to
others; text, .lob xlii, 10, “And the
Lord turned the captivity of Job when
be prayed for bis friends.”
Comparatively few people read this
last chapter of the book of Job. The
earlier chapters are so full of thrilling
Incident, of events so dramatically
portrayed, of awful ailments and ter-
riilc disaster, of domestic infelicity, of
staccato passage, of resounding ad
dress. of omuipotency proclaimed, of
utterances showing Job to have been
the greatest scientist of bis day, an ex
pert In mining and precious stones,
astronomer, and geographer, and zoolo
gist. and electrician, and poet, that
most readers stop before they get to
my text, which, strangely and mys
teriously, announces that “the Lord
turned the captivity of Job when he
prayed for his friends.”
Now. will you please explain to me
how Job’s prayer for his friends halted
his catastrophes? Give me some good
reason why Job on his knees in behalf
of the welfare of others arrested the
long procession of calamities. Mind you,
It was not prayer for himself, for then
the cessation of his troubles would
have been only another instance of
prayer answered, hut the portfolio of
his disaster was rolled up while be
supplicated God in behalf of Ellphaz
the Temauite. Bildad the Shuhite and
Zophar the Naamathite. 1 must con
fess to you that I had to read the text
over and over again before I got its
full meaning—“And the Lord turned
the captivity of Job when he prayed
for his friends.”
Well, if you will not explain it to me,
I will explain it to you. The healthiest,
the most recuperative thing on earth
to do Is to stop thinking so much about
ourselves and go to thinking about the
welfare of others. Job had been study
ing ids misfortunes, but the more lie
thought about ids bankruptcy the poor
er lie seemed, the more he thought of
Ids carbuncles the worse they hurt, the
more he thought of Ids unfortunate
marriage the more intolerable became
the conjugal relation; the more he
thought of Ids house blown down the
more terrillc seemed the cyclone. His
misfortunes grew blacker and black
er, hut there was to come a reversal of
these sad conditions. One day he said
to himself: “I have been dwelling too
much upon my bodily ailments and my
wife’s temper and my bereavements.
It is lime I began to think about others
and do something for others, and I will
start now by praying for my three
friends.” Then Job dropped upon his
knees, and as he did so the last shackle
of Ids captivity of trouble snapped and
fell off. Hear it, all ye ages of time
and all ye ages of eternity, “the Lord
turned the captivity of Job when he
prayed for his friends.”
A Mighty Medicament.
The fault with most of us la too
much self concentration—our health,
our fortunes, our advancement, our so
cial position, our achievements, out
losses, our defeats, our sufferings, our
persecution, our life, our death, our im
mortality. Of course there is a lawful
and righteous selfishness. In a world
and in a time of such activities and
rivalries and temptations we must look
after our own interests and our own
destiny or we will go under. Do not
wait for others to take care of you.
Take care of yourself. But it will not
hinder our preservation and prosperity
if we enlarge the sphere of our wishes
and prayers so as to take In others,
The law in the natural world would do
well for the moral and spiritual world.
The centripetal force in nature would
throw everything in toward the center,
and the centrifugal force In nature
would throw everything out from the
center, hut the centripetal and the cen
trifugal work beautifully together. The
one force that would throw everything
toward the center Is balanced by the
force that would throw everything out
ward.
Our world, with Its own Interests,
feels the pull of other worlds. No
world, no nation, no communty. no
man. no woman, can afford to exist
only for itself or himself or herself.
The hour in which Job lias that solilo
quy about the enlargement of his pray
ers so as to take In his friends and ho
put into execution his good resolution
was the hour when he felt a tonic, a
sedative, a nervine, a cataplasm, that
helped to cure his body ami revived his
mortuues till they were a hundred per
cent better than ever before, for the
record is "the Lord gave Job twice as
much as he had before,” and tended to
make him a wonder of longevity, for
he lived 140 years after his troubles
were gone. Oh, what a mighty medica
ment is the contemplation of and the
effort for the welfare of others!
“But,” says some one, “it was easy
enough for Job to pray for his friends.
Anybody can do that. There are those
to whom we are obligated for years of
kindness. They stand so close to us In
sympathy and reminiscence and an
ticipation that it Is easy for us to pray
for their welfare.” Well, 1 see you do
not understand that these friends of
Job were tho most tantalizing and ex
asperating friends a man ever had.
Look at their behavior. When they
heard of his bereavements and the ac
cidents by whirlwind and lightning
stroke, they came In and sat Town by
him a whole week, seven days and
seven nights, and the record is “none
spake a word to him,” What a dis
reputable and wicked silence! Mind
you, they professed to he religious nu n,
and they ought to have been able to
offer some religious consolation. In
stead of that, they wore dumb ns tho
sphinx which at that time stood In the
African desert and stands there still.
Why did they not say something about
reunion in the heavenly realms with
Ids children, who had been slain? Why
did they not talk to him about the sat
isfactory explanations In the future
world of things we do not understand
In this world? Why did they not go to
the apothecary and buy a poultice that
would have soothed the carbuncles, or
some quieting potion that would calm
his nerves, or a few drops of febrifuge
that would cool his boated frame? No!!
For seven days and seven nights they
did tiothjny and said nothing for bis
relief. They must have almost bored
him to death.
Job'a Comforters.
After these three friends had com
pleted their infamous silence of a week
they began to lecture Job. First Eli-
phaz the Temanito opens with a long
story about a dream which he had in
the night and irritates the sufferer
with words that make things worse
instead of better and sets him In an
attitude of defense against the lecturer.
Then comes Bildad the Shuhite, who
gives the invalid a round scolding and
calls him garrulous and practically
tells him that he deserved all that he
had got and that if he had behaved
himself aright he would not have lost
his house or his children or his estate.
Ho practically said: “Job, I will toll
you what is the matter with you. You
are bad. You are a hypocrite. You
are now getting paid for your wicked
ness.” No wonder that there came
from Job an outburst of Indignation,
which calls out the other quondam
friend, Zophar the Naamathite, who
begins denouncing Job by calling him
a liar and keeps on the discourse until
Job responds to all three of them in
tho sarcastic words, “No doubt hut
ye are the people, and wisdom shall
die with you.”
Oli, what friends Job had! Heaven
deliver us from having one such friend,
to say nothing of having three of them.
It was for such friends that Job pray
ed, and was It not a religious triumph
for him so to do? Would you, the
very best of you, be in very devout
mood and capable of making interces
sion for people who had come to you
in a day of trouble and said: “Good
for you. You ought to be chastised.
You are being taken in hand by eternal
Justice. If you had behaved yourself
aright, you would not have been sick
or persecuted or impoverished or made
childless.” Oh, no, my friend, you
would uot have felt like Job when he
prayed for his friends, but more like
Job when he cursed the day of his
nativity.
Notice that this flagellation by the
three friends was premeditated. They
did not merely happen in and come
suddenly upon trouble for which they
could not offer a compound. The Bible
says, “They had made an appointment
together.” The Interview was prear
ranged. They had agreed ns to what
they would say to the sick man. You
can see that their remarks were not ex
temporaneous. What they said was
sublimely poetic. They rose in style
Into what in later times we would call
the Homeric or Dantesque. But Job
was not lu need of poetry so much as a
salve for his eruptive disorder. He
was not dying for lack of a paragraph
in blank verse. He was not so much
in need of a didactic lecture about the
Justice of God as an assurance of the
divine mercy. Some pious rustic of the
land of Uz, not able to put three gram
matical sentences together, could have
said something more consolatory.
Worthy of Emulation.
The meanness of the attack of these
religious critics was augmented by the
fact that they had the sufferer in their
power. When we are well and we do
not like what one is saying, we can get
up and go away. But Job was too ill
to get up and go away. First he en
dured the seven days and seven nights
of silence, and then ho endured their
arraignment of his motives and char
acter, and after their cruel campaign
was ended, by a sublime effort of soul,
which I this day uphold for imitation,
he triumphed in prayer for his tantaliz-
ers. In all history there Is nothing
equal to It except the memorable 1m-
ploratlon by Christ for his enemies.
No wonder that after that prayer of
Job was once uttered a thrill of recov
ery shot through every nerve and vein
of his tortured body and every passion
of his great soul, and God answered It
by adding nearly a century and a half
to his lifetime and whitened the hills
with flocks of sheep and fllled the air
with the lowing of cattle and wakened
the silent nursery of his homo with the
swift feet ami the laughing voices of
childhood—seven sons and three daugh
ters celebrated for their beauty, the
daughters to refine the sons, the sons
to defend the daughters. There is noth
ing that pays so well ns prayer, and
the more difficult the prayer to make
the greater the reward for making It.
Let us all make similar attempt to
pray for those who vex and misrepre
sent and tantalize us. You may bo very
popular In the city or neighborhood
where you live, but 1 warrant If you
are in active life there are those who
wish you the opposite of wishing you
well. Are you benevolent? They say It
is on your part a matter of personal
display. Are you eloquent or learned?
They declare you are overrated and
that what you say or write Is of no Im
portance. Do you try to make yourself
effective in church or hospital or board
of directors? They call you officious.
Are you well dressed? They say you
are proud. Does a false report start In
the community against your char
acter? They believe It nil and add an
other story to the fabrication. Some of
them pretend to be friends, but they
have the cudgels all ready for you—Ell-
phaz the Temanito, Bildad the Shu
hite, Zophar the Naamathite. Now,
pray for them. “Oh!” you say, “I can
not do that,” I thought you could not.
But you will grow In grace until you
can do It ns easily and as well as did
Job pray for his exasperatora. You
ought to pity them, for defamers and
detractors and the envious and Jealous
are not happy. They hurt themselvea
more than they hurt you. Better be
the pursued than the pursuer. Better
be the infant Christ than Herod the
robber of tho Bethlehem cradles. You
want to he a better man. You want to
be a lietter woman. Then scale this
height of triumphant prayer, and you
will be ten times more of a Christian
than you ever have been. It will pro
long your life as It prolonged Job's
life. You will fool a glorious reaetiou
that w il last through all time and all
eternity. It will steady your nerves, If
will reduce your spleen, It will regu
late the pulsation of your heart.
Kerp Your Teinprr,
Nothing Is so unhealthy ns to get
mad. It Is u shock to the whole phys
ical organization ns well ns to your
mental and moral condition. It Is no
unusual thing for people to drop down
dead in a fit of anger. You people
who weigh over ’J<X) pounds avoirdu
pois had better never lose your tem
per, for at such times apoplexy Is not
far off. Get the equipoise of Job hi
the text, and It will help you lu busi
ness directions. Fraying for all of
fenders, j;ou will have more, nerve Cor
large undertakings; you “wHI Lave n
better balanced Judgment; you will
waste no valuable time in trying to get
even with your enemies. Try this
height of prayer for your antagonist
today, and if you fall try it tomorrow.
Keep on until yon accomplish it, and
I should not wonder If, in addition to
the moral and religious strength It
gives you, It should add a hundred
per cent to your worldly prosperity.
Job xlll, 10, “The Lord gave Job twice
as much as ho had before.”
What we all need Is to get out of
ourselves and go to helping others,
whether friends or foes. As beautiful
an Instance of how this can he done
I found Inst summer In London In
the person of Florence Nightingale,
the heroine of hospitals and of battle
fields when there were no hospitals.
The lounge on which she lies pros
trate Is a throne of power, and, though
she has passed into the eighties, she
trains nurses for sickbeds, and her
Influence Is now felt among the w’ound-
ed lu South Africa, while her memory
Is full of the story of Balaklava, Se
vastopol and Inkerman, where Eng
land and France and Russia grappled.
She told me that she had not been
happy until she undertook to alleviate
suffering and that since she began
that w’ork she had never seen an un
happy day. To that work she conse
crated her life, her classic attainments,
her social position, her brilliant per
sonality. Her whole life for others,
and her face shows It. I think so
much of heaven Is to be found in no
other human countenance. Tennyson’s
“Charge of the Light Brigade” Is not
more thrilling to me than the womanly
bravery and sacrifice (hat took care df
tk >se who were shot from the saddles
of the “Immortal six hundred.”
The Emblem ot Immortality.
My text enthrones prayer and gives
it a scepter to wave over our temporal
and eternal life. Under God It cured
Job and fixed up his finances and re
stored his home and made him so ro
bust of health that he lived 14 decades.
“But,” some one says, “I do not believe
In prayer for friends and foes, because
I do not think that God Is going to
change the laws of nature because we
ask him so to do.” Neither do I think
that God will change the law of nature
at our request, but I am sure that he
answers prayer through natural law.
Not a physician of any skill, allopathic,
or homeopathic, or hydropathic, or
eclectic, but has some time been sur
prised that what was thought to be a
fatal disease suddenly relaxes Its grasp
of the patient, and he recovers. Not
one law of nature has been fractured.
Prayer may have given the sudden
turn to that Illness. A business man
may be in difficulty Inextricable—mort-
gages against him foreclosing, goods to
he sold for some reason become unsal
able, new Invention in machinery mak
ing the old machinery of his factory
worthless, all kinds of commercial
troubles pouncing upon him at once.
Most business men have at least onca
in their lives been put In such agoniz
ing crisis, but the harried merchant or
manufacturer gets out of It. Creditors
become lenient, the wheels that were
made useless for making one kind of
fabric turn out to be good for making
another style of fabric, the stock of
goods that could uot be sold comes into
unexpected demand, and whereas all
things were against him all things are
now for him. No law of nature Is
broken and no law of trade. Prayer
may have given that extrication. God,
by making a law, does not tie his own
bends with it If you are free to do
what you are asked to do. Is uot God
just as free, or are you mightier than
your Maker?
Prayer* Answered.
What a scene It was when that whal
ing ship, after a cruise of three years,
approached a New England harbor!
From the shore the mother knew that
It was the ship in which her son was
sailing, but a hurricane struck the ship
and destroyed It on the rocks, and the
wreckage was strewn on the beach.
But the mother continued all night In
prayer for her sou’s safety, and In the
morning a knock was heard at her
door, and the door opened, and In came
her long absent boy exclaiming, “Moth
er. I knew you would pray me home."
But you need not go so far for Illustra
tion. I have In my own life had an
swers to prayer so pointed, so direct,
so startling, that I dare not recite them
lest I he misunderstood. I could pick
many startling Instances right out of
this audience. You dare not doubt the
Integrity of those who present such
evidence. You would believe them as
witnesses iu any court of law standing
before Judge and Jury, and certainly
you ought to believe them when they
give solemn testimony as to wjint they
Pave seen and felt In answer to pray
er. Silent prayer, audible prayer, ejac
ulatory prayer, Intercessory prayer, ex
temporaneous prayer, liturgical pray
er, prayer In the morning to start th«
day right, prayer in ihc evening to cor
rect the mistakes of the day, prayer at
the beginning of the year us we launch
out upon Its uncertainties, and prayer
at the close of the year reviewing tho
vicissitudes of the 12 mouths, prayer
for ourselves, prayer for others, not
formal and heartless prayer, which Is
of no more use than the prayer of tho
heathen of Timbuktu, who writes bis
petition on a hoard and then washes it
off and catches the water in a cup, giv
ing It to the sick to drink for recovery.
Many of the prayers offered In Chris
tian lands are as senseless as these
artificial prayers of the pagans. What
is needed Is not only heartfelt prayer,
hut direct prayer, such as David men
tions, drawing his figure from archery,
with Its Ikjw aud arrows. As the notch
of the arrow is put against the string
of the bow aud then the archer takes
aim and in a flash the arrow strikes
the mark, so David resolves that his
prayers shall not he aimless. He alms
his prayer at the heavens, “To thee
will I direct my prayer." “Have you
said your prayers?" Is a misleading
question. You may say your prayers a
thousand times without praying. The
Bible s|M>aks of Ellas, "who prayed In
his prayer," Implying that one can
sown to pray when no prayer Is of
fered. Prayer is the soul on the wing.
It Is the private door into the King’s
palace. It Is the barometer showing
what the spiritual weather will be. It
is stepping Into the holy of holies. It
Is telegraphy with tho heavens. It Is
tho winding up of tho clock of the Im
mortal soul. It Is Intercommunication
between the finite and the Infinite—
prayer suggested by circumstances.
Breath of the Moal.
Prayer Is what some ouo has called
“tho slender nerve that iuyi'ylh the
muscles of omnipotence.” Prayer Is
the healthful respiration of the soul. It
Is the whisper of helplessness Into the
ear of help. It is laying hold of nl-
mlghtiness, omniscience and omnipres
ence at one and the same time. Prayer
enlists all divine and angelic re-enforce
ment Prayer Is laying hold of a
pulley fastened to the heavenly throne.
Prayer Is the first breath of n new
born soul, and It Is heard in the last
gasp of earthly Christian experiences.
Prayer! In an Instant It mounts the
highest heavens. Neither seraph nor
archangel ever flew swifter or higher
than the Infant’s petition at her
mother’s knee. What an opportunity Is
prayer! Why not oftener use It pray
ing for ourselves and. like Job, praying
for others? What better work would
we do, what better lives would we live,
what better hopes would we entertain,
If we multiplied and intensified our
prayers!
Some one asked a soldier of Stone
wall Jackson the secret of the great
general’s Influence over his men. “Does
your general abuse you, swear at you,
to make you march?” “Swear!” re
plied the soldier. “No! Ewell does the
swearing; Stonewall does the praying.
When Stonewall wants us to march,
he looks at us soberly, just as If he
were sorry for us, and says, ‘Men, we
have got to make a long march.’ We
always know when there Is going to be
a long march and right smart fighting,
for Stonewall is powerful on prayer
Just before a big tight.” When Stone
wall Jackson was asked the meaning
of the passage “instant In prayer,” he
said: “If you will not mistake and
think 1 am setting myself up as an
example, which 1 am not, 1 will give an
Illustration from my own habit. 1 have
so fixed the habit of prayer lu my mind
that I never raise a glass of water to
my lips without a moment’s asking of
God’s blessing; 1 never seal a letter
without putting a word of prayer un
der the seal; I never take a letter from
the post without a brief sending of my
thoughts heavenward; 1 never change
my classes In the section room without
a minute’s petition for the cadets who
go out and those who come in.”
flelpfnlne** of Pruyer.
Now, If God has during these re
marks shown us the uses, the impor
tance, the blessedness of prayer, sup
pose we try to do what Job did when
he prayed for his exasperatora. Many
of us at the beginning of this subject
felt that while we could pray for our
selves aud pray for those who were
kind to us we never could reach the
high point of religious experience in
which we could pray for those who an
noy us and make us feel worse instead
of feeling better. That was a Matter
horn, that was an Alp, to the top of
which we feared we could never climb,
but we thank God that by his omnipo-
(eut grace we have reached that height
at last Let us pray! Oh, Christ, who
didst pray for thine assassins, we now
pray for those who despitefully use us
and say all manner of evil against us.
For their eternal salvation we suppli
cate. When time Is no more, may they
reign on thrones and wear coronets
and sway scepters of heavenly domin
ion. Meanwhile take the bitterness
from their soul and make them soon
think ns well of us as now they think
evil. Sparc their bodies from pain and
their households from bercuvcmcnt.
After all the misunderstandings and
controversies of this life are over may
we keep with them eternal jubilee in
the mansions on the hill, and as thou
didst turn the captivity of Job when he
had prayed for those who badly used
him, and health came to his body and
prosperity to his estate, now that wo
have by thy grace been able to make
supplication for our antagonists, cure
cur diseases, If we are ill; and restore
our estate, {f it has been scattered; and
awaken gladness In our homesteads, if
they have been bereft; aud turn the
captivity of our physical pain or finan
cial misfortune or mental distress, and
thine shall be the kingdom and the
power and the glory forever and ever.
Amen!
[Copyright, 1900, Louis Klopsch, N. Y.J
A Sweet Life (lone Out.
Our people sympathize deeply with
Mr. and Mrs. T. G. McCraw in the
deep affliction which was cast over
them yesterday by the death of their
youngest boy. The little fellow was
just three years old when his sweet
young life went out, and had been
sick only about a week. He was tbe
darling of bis mother and the pet of
the household; but ho was formed too
fair for earth and the grim reaper
plucked the little bud and transported
it to the great garden of eternity where
it now blooms in perennial beauty in
the sunlight that never fades. The
remains will be buried at Providence
church about 2 o’clock this afternoor,
A Junior Tea 1’arty.
Mrs L VV McGuinn gave a tea
party Saturday afternoon to some of
the little folks in honor of her dangh-
ter Flora’s [birthday. All kinds of
good things were there to eat and
many nice presents were given to the
little hostess by her young friends
and associates. Miss Flora is only
eleven years old. yet sho acted the
hostess in a manner that would win
the envy and admiration of some of
more mature years.
The little folks spent the afternoon
in various amusements, and the af>
fair was highly enjoyed by all who
partook of Miss Flora’s hospitality.
Difficulty nt Clifton.
News reached us yesterday of a
fight at Clifton which occurred Bun*
day night between two boys named
Bradley and Gibson.
The difficulty took place at a hall
which was used as a place of worship,
though we did not learn whether ser
vices were in progress at the time or
not. The tight was the result of a
boyish row and our information was
that Bradley was killed by Gibson
aud that Gibson himself was badly
cut.
No particulars were given us fur
ther than the above.
Putnam Fadeless Die, Navy Blue,
is the fastest known Blue, with the
exception of Indigo (and It is impos
sible for you to do home dyihg with
Indigo) 10c, per package. Sold by
Dr. 8. B. Crawley & Co.
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COCAME—WHISKY
II•bit* Cured at mj Han •tor.
lam, in SO data. UiiiidrtxU
Atlanta, Oa.
Cheap for Cash,
T carry a line of Dry Goods,
Notions, Shoes, Hats, Caps,
Groceries, Hardware, Crockery,
Glassware and almost anything
carried in a general store. All
at rock bottom prices for cash.
Remember I sell the best axes
for the least money.
Yours to please,
I. M. PEELER.
Hulldlng and Pliisterin? Lime,
Goal, and Plaster Hair,
Plaster Paris.
Kosendale Gomont,
Portland Cement,
Dynamite,
Blasting Powder, Faso
and Dynamite Caps, call on
Limestone Springs Lime Works
CARROLL & CO., Lessees.
Telephone 57.
Meeting of County Commissioners.
The annuul meeting of the Board of County
Commissioners will be held in the Super
visor’s office on Monday, December ad. Par
ties having claims against the county will
present them properly approved.
N. Lipscomb, Supervisor.
W. 11. Rosa, Clerk. 11-1(^35-30
The tlp-to Dsle Market
has got the Pork and the Beef. | have
some line Tennessee Hogs and will con
tinue getting them in fresh every tenor
fffteen days. Country produce when can
he got. Fresh Kish on Fridays and Sat
urdays. Heavy and Fancy Grocerh s
Fr uits and Confectionaries. Will til; your’
order on short notice. Try our Fresh
Sausage.
. I. W. McGUINN,
Prop.
Phone No. 60.
l-Vc Wanted—Fat Cattle arid Sheep.
Notice of Election.
Notice is hereby given that an election will
be held in Ward One, of the city of Gaffney,
S. on Friday. November 33, for the pur-
l*oso of electing an alderman from said ward
to till the unexpired term of U. L. Bird, re
signed.
The polling booth will bo open at Holt’s
store from S a. m. to 4 p. m., and the follow
ing will 1 e the managers: N. C. Snead, L. I).
Hippy at.d John Cush.
N. II. Littlejohn,
W. II Ross. Clerk. Mayor.
Commercial Printing
Of every description executed with neatness and dispatch
at The Ledger ollico, Gaffney, S. 0. New Type, New
Presses, the finest quality of Ink and Paper, and Compe
tent Workmen. Send us your orders.
“Guns till you can’t rest!"
We have just received our Fall line of Guns
and Shells. Our guns are up-to-date. Come
and see our stock. We will not charge you
anything to see and get prices.
Yours truly,
R. M. WILKINS & CO.
A MEMORIAL SERVICE.
Wuh Held in the First llaptiat Church
Sunday In Memory of Mr*. \V. FI. Crocker.
A memorial service was held in
the First Baptist church Sunday
morning in memory of Mrs. W. E.
Crocker, whose very sad death oc
curred on Sept. 15th in Fukuoka,
Japan. Rev. B. P. Robertson, the
pastor, paid a glowing tribute to
tho beautiful character of Mrs.
Crocker; and the music aud tho ser
mon were both appropriate to such a
service in memory of one of our de
parted missionaries who had conse
crated her life to the cause of Christ
and died “a stranger in a strange
land” faithful to the last in the
Master’s service.
The sermon was preached from
the scripture. “The laborer is worthy
of his wages,” on which the pastor
based an appeal to the people for the
support of Mr. Crocker in this hour
of his greatest affliction. Tho Broad
River Association promised to sup
port Mr. and Mrs. Crocker when they
left for China. An offering was made
Sunday morning at the First Baptist
church for the support of Mr.
Crocker, and nil the churches in the
association should do likewise, und
make’their offering as scon as possi
ble.
A more worthy cause cannot be
co c-ived than that for which these
offerings are made; and it is to be
hoped that the churches which have
not already done so will respond
promptly and generously.
Kodol
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It artificially digest s the food and aids
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Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Heartburn,
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Sick Headache,Gastralgia,Cramps and
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Prepared by E. C. DeWITT A CO.. Chicago.
BOUTIIERN RAILWAY.
Condensftd Sohedule of Passenger Tralae.
In Effect May Cth, 1W0.
Worthhoaad.
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Tax Notice.
The tax levy for Cherokee County for fiscal
year 1900 Is as follows:
F'or State purposes, 5 mills.
For Constitutional School Tax, 3 mills.
For Ordinary County Tax, 4 mills.
For New Jail, I mill.
F'or County Roads, 1 mill.
For Sinking Fund Draytonville, Gowdeys-
vllle, White Plains, Morgan and Limestone
Townships, 3 mills.
For Htuklng Fund Cherokee Township, 14
mills.
For Interest on Railroad Bonds Cherokee
Township, 1 mill.
For Gaffney Graded School District No. 10,
24 mills.
For Blacksburg Graded School District
No. 9,4 mills.
The 11.00 Commutation Road Tax for 1901,
payable from Oct. 15th, 1900, to Fob. 1st. 1901,
age from 31 to 50 years.
1 will bo at the following places for the pur
pose of collecting taxes:
At Ezells, Wednesday, Nov. 14th, from 10
. m. to 1 p. m.
At office from Nov. 15th until Doc. 31st.
J. B. JONES,
Do. Treasurer
Gaffucy, 8,0„ Sept. IMk. 1900. V-14-tf
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Nos. 87 and 88—Dally Washing! .a aad
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Pullman sleeping cart between New York and
New Orleans, via Washington, Atlanta aud
Montgomery, ind also between New York and
MemnhU, vis Waehlngtoa. Atlanta and Bir
mingham. Also elegant Pullman Li##abt
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