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Washington. Deo. 15.—This dlsoourne Isa most unusual presentatioti of things that take place In many lives, and Dr. Talmape pleads for merciful interpre tation of human behavior. The text la Jot^ia ill. 4, “Ye have not passed this way heretofore.” In December, 1S80, I waded the river Jordan, and. although the current was strong, 1 was able to bear up against it, but in the time of spring freshet, when the snows on Mount Lebanon melt, nothing but a miracle would en pble any one to cross this river. It was at the dangerous springtime that Joshua and the ottioers of his army ut tered the words of my text to the peo ple who were in a few hours to cross the Jordan. About that crossing we say but little, because on a previous o^'islnn we discoursed concerning that pmng up of the waters into crystal barricade. We only speak of the* march to the brink of the river. No stranger thing has eve r occurred in all history. The ark of the covenant was a bril liant chest of acacia wood, overlaid with gold, on the top of which were two wing’d figures facing each other. It was live feet long and three feet wide. Poles were thrust through the rings at the side, and by these poles the ark was lifted. This splendid box was to be carried three-quarters of a mile ahead of the hosts of Israel on the way to the crossing. That distance between the box and the advancing thousands must be kept because of reverence. There was a sanctity in that divine symbol that they must ob serve by keeping three-quarters of a mile away. They must watch that glittering box and follow; otherwise they would lose their way and not ar rive at the right place for crossing. They had never been there before, and they must be guided. For that reason Joshua utters the words of my text. “Ye have not passed this way hereto fore.” And the subordinate officers at the head of the regiments repeated it. “Ye have uot passed this way hereto fore.” What was truthfully said of the an cient Israelites may be truthfully said of us. We are making our first and last Journey through this world. It is possible, ns some of my good friends believe, that this world will be correct ed and improved and purified and tto- rallzed and emparadised as to climate and soil and character until it shall become a heaven for the ransomed, hut 1 do not think it. 1 have an Idea that heaven Is already built somewhere. Our departed friends could not wait until this world is fixed up for saintly and angelic residence. Having once gone out of the world. I do not think we will come hack, except as minister ing spirits to help those who remain In the earthly struggle or perhaps to look at the woudrous spectacle of a burning planet. Travellnit New Paths. But, leaving that theory aside, we are very sure that we are for the first time walking the earthly pilgrimage. “Ye have not passed this way before.” Every minute is a new minute, every hour a new hour, every century a new century. Other folks have gone over the same road we are traveling, but It Is our first trip. New appearances, new temptations, new sorrows, new Joys. That Is the reason so many lose their way. They meet some one on the road of life and ask for direction, and wrong direction Is given. We have all been perplexed by misdirec tion after asking the way to some place we wished to visit. Some one said to us. “Take the first road to the right and. having gone a mile on that road, tajie the first road on the left, and you will soon reach your destina tion.” We took the advice, but our In former forgot a turn in the road or for got one of the roads leading to the left, and we look the wrong road and were lost in the woods, and night came on. and we were put to great Irritation and trouble. The fact is. I blame no one for mak ing lifetime mistakes. I pity them in stead of blaming them. There are so many wrong roads, but only one rigid one. You cannot in midlife draw upon ycur youthful experiences for wisdom, for midlife is so entirely different from youth. You cannot in old age draw up on midlife experiences, for the two stages of existence are so diverse. What is wisdom for one man to do would he folly for another to under take. A man of nerve and pluck is not qualified to advise a man timid and shrinking. An achievement that would be easy for you might be impossible for me. Human advice is ordinarily of little value. People review their own successes or failures and then tell us what is best fur us to do. not realizing that our elreumstanees are different, our temperament is different, our phys ical and inentul and moral capaeities different. Most of the great mistakes that have been made have been made uisler human advisement. So, also, it may be said to every na tion. “Ye have not passed this way before.” Our own republic Is going through novel experiences. Could wis- #st statesman twenty years ago have prophesied present conditions? Every president. eve»\ eongress. lias new cri- les to meet and new questions to set* So prophecies made about coudi- pis i.i tliis country fifty years from TtBtv may turn out as far untrue as tlrt* ophecies made fifty years ago by greatest of American statesmen ^en be declared on yonder Capitol that It was unwise to think of civi lization or prosperity the other side of the Itocky mountains, ami according to ids belief the Pacific coast would he the perpetual abode of barbarians and mountain lions, and we must not think of annexing those forbiddihg regions. A Road of Novelty. Many prophecies in regard to our na tion failed and many prophecies con cerning its future will fail because It is ! traveling a new road. Every step it , takes on that road Is a novelty. The opinion of a Monroe or a Jefferson in ; the far past is not of as much \alue as the opinion of our wisest men now. : How could men know In 1823 what It would be best for this nation to do In 11)01? It is belittling as well as an- | wise for our statesmen, who are quite ! equal to the statesmen of the past and i who have, in addition to the natural | talents of their predecessors, attain ments in knowledge that were impossl- | ble in any decade but our own, to de pend on advice of men who have been dead three-quarters of a century. In : all other things the world has advanc- I ed. Can It be that in statesmanship It has gone back and that this opening ' of the twentieth century must consult the opening of the nineteenth century? i “Ye have uot passed this way before." Yea, our entire world is on a new pathway. It may be swinging in the same old oHbit as when by the hand of the Almighty immensity was sprin kled with worlds, but it has been rock ed with earthquakes and scorched with volcanic fires and whelmed with tidal waves and wrought upon by climatic changes—citit s sunk, and islands lifted, ami mountains avalanched into val leys. So it is another world than that which was first started in the solar system. Yet it is all the time changing and will keep changing until the hour of Its demolition. Of this beautiful world, this lustrous world, this glori ous world, it may be said, “Ye have not passed this way before.” What is the practical use of this sub ject? Instead of putting so much stress upon human advice and instead of asking of the past what we ought to do. follow the divine lending as the men of Joshua followed the golden lidded chest of acacia, which was the symbol of the divine presence. Teaches Reverence to God. That three-quarters of a mile dis tance between the ark or sacred box end the front column of Joshua’s troops mightily impresses me. It was a forceful way of teaching reverence for the Almighty. They needed to learn that lesson of reverence, as we all need to learn It. Irreverence has cursed all nations, and none more than our own. Irreverence in the use of God’s name. Hear you it not on the streets and in social groups, and Is not a profane word sometimes thought nec essary to point Jocosity? Irreverence for the Scriptures, the phraseology of the Bible often Introduced Into the most frivolous conversation and made mirth provoking. Irreverence for the oath In courtroom or custom house or legislative hall by the conventional and mechanical mode of Its administration. Irreverence for the holy Sabbath by the way It Is broken In pleasure excur sion and carousal. Irreverence on the part of children for their parents, in solence being substituted for obedi ence. Irreverence for rulers, which in duces vile cartoons and assassination. Irreverence in church during prayer, measuring off song and sermon by cold, artistic or literary criticism, and in prayer time neither bowing the head nor bending the knee nor stand ing as one does In the presence of earthly ruler, thus showing more re spect for a man than to the King of kings. We ask not for genuflexions or drcumflexlons or prostrations, but when prayer Is offered let us either bow the head or bend the knee or let us In some way prove that we are not Indifferent In how many places have presumption and foolhardiness taken the place of reverence! That three- quarters of a mile between the chest of acacia covered with gold and mounted with wings—a symbol of the divine presence—and the marching regiments of Joshua suggests a reverence that Is woefully lacking in social life, in legis lative hail and religious assemblage. A farmer went to the wbeatflcld. tak ing his son with him. The child said. “These stalks that stand straight up must have the best grain. Those stalks that bend over cannot be worth anything.” Then the father broke off 1 two of the tops of the stalks and said. “Child, that one that bends clear over j has the grain.” It te the soul that bows in deepest reverence which Is the ' best soul. Follow the Divine Leading. But though Joshua’s host observed the three-quarters of a mile command, they followed the ark, and you will do v 11 to follow the divine leading, as the path you tread now has not yet been trodden. “Ye have not passed tliis way before." Many of you are suffering from just such annoyances ! as have uot occurred in all your his- ! tory. There have been meannesses practiced upon you or you have re ceived slights or you are the subject of misinterpretations or you are iii the midst of sore disappointments or there are demands made upon your strength uiid time more than you can meet or some physical ailment is laying siege to your castle of fieulth or you are under embarrassments that you cannot men tion even to nearest friends. You say: “Well. I never saw anything like tliis. I never exported such treatment as » is. I never thought it possible to he f ed in such circumstances." And .ten you say all that you are only translating the words of my text into your own phraseology. If you had suf fered something like tliis before, you would have known what to do, hut here is a Hank movement for which you are not ready. As you have laid no experience of tliis kind upon which to draw for wis dom and as you cannot fully state ail the circumstances to any human ear, go to God and tell him all about it. lie knows already, but it will relieve you and help you if you tell him. That is what lie has been doing ever since the world got Into trouble by disobedi ent behavior on the batius of the Eu phrates. If in the first chapter of the Bible we see the gate through which the woes of the world entered, in the third chapter of the Bible we see the opening of the gate through which they are to he driven out. Promises by the scores and hundreds and thousands. Sacrificial lambs foretelling the Lamb of God. Rock stricken into gushing floods, typical of the fact that the world’s thirst is going to be slaked. Pillar of fire hoisted above wilderness march. Star of hope over birthplace In a barn. Sepulchers rent open. Trum pets of deliverance sounded. All heav en to take part in the rescue of our planet. The Infinite God listening with an ear In which a whisper 10.001) miles away is us audible as thunder. Perhaps it is a bereavement. You have felt sorrow fer those who lost children or thought y m did, but now that the sorrow has come to your own nursery it is a different thing. You never could have imagined the silences about the house now that the little feet are quiet and the Infant voice has ceas ed its prattle. What a sensation at eventide with no one to put to bed! What toys put away to be looked at on anniversary days! How Christmas day Is shadowed and the world is changed! Get over it? You never can get over it In this world. Perhaps it Is your first sorrow. “Ye have not passed this way before.” God grant that you may | never pass this way again. In the Wake of the Ark. But follow the ark. and it will lead , you to rivers of consolation. You will ' find that your child lias gone into a heaven of children, a land where chil dren are In vast majority, a score of infant souls to one manly or womanly soul, for the vast majority of the race die in infancy. It is the exception when people live to grow up. Heaven n great playground for children. Pal aces for kings end queens? Oh. yes! But what wide halls of pleasure, what gardens of delight, what raptures, such as on earth with ball and kite and hoop they never felt! Let them go. mother. You can trust him in the 1 land of music and flowers. The front door of that eternal home was opened by him who said. "Suffer the little children to come unto me and forbid them not. for of such is the kingdom of heaven.” What a time the children have up there! Can you not almost hear their quick feet on the Ivory stairs? What rounds of gladness! What laughter of eternal glee! Follow the ark. and it will lead you to the crossing into the reunions of the home where you will never part As our sorrows are new. our joys are new and all our experiences are new. Our life Is one long discovery of things that we did not know and could not know, because we have not passed this w r ay before. We have found, for instance, that gratitude Is the rarest of virtues. You used to suppose that if you do a kindness It will be fully ap preciated and reciprocated. You have found out by experience, ns you could have found out in no other way. that gratitude Is apt to he only another ax to grind. While there is n possibility that you may return still more service you are thanked, but when you can re turn no more advantage you are drop ped. Here Is a man whom you have helped In political elevation. When the time comes for the compliment to be returned, you are not only refv.sed help, but you receive positive opposi tion. You have found out that you should do the right thing not with re spect to reward or gratitude, but be cause It is the right thing to do. Many are miserable because they are all the way looking for gratitude which they cannot find. You might as well go down Pennsylvania avenue. Washing ton, or Broadway. New York, or Tre- mont street. Boston, your eyes scruti nizing the pavements looking for tur quoises and emeralds and rubies. Per haps you might find them, but there Is not much probability that In fifty years you would find one of them. Sarprlslnic Dlaeovertea. No one has come to midlife who has not been stung of ingratitude. On the battlefield of Alma In 1854 a wounded Russian was crying In anguish of thirst for water. Captain Eddington of the English army ran to him and gave him drink. As the captain was running by to Join his regiment the wounded sol dier shot him. Almost all languages have proverbs setting forth this per versity. English proverb. “Bring up a raven, and it will pick out your eyes." Arabic proverb, "Eat the present and break the dish.” Italian proverb. "The ass. after having drunk, gives a kick to the bucket.” An old proverb says. “If God were to be so complacent as to carry us on his hack to Rome, we would not thank him for his pains if he did not also set us down in an easy chair.” You will never he happy in this world if you do not do all the good you can and look for no responsive grntl- . tude. All the damage I did a man who Is my enemy was to take him from a position where he received $700 a year salary into a p -ition where he has ever since received $2,500 a year. He never forgave me. hut lias pursued me with a pen vitriolic ever since. The worst enemy you ever had is the man you introduced and favored and help ed. But l»e not disturbed or even Irri tated. You are no hotter than your I,ord. If the world had had any thauk- j ful appreciation of his coming it wo ^ld have filled that Bethlehem caravans:.Vy ! with (lowers, w! '" 1 ' ’ ’ v-... Biere clear on Into t!* > December month, and Her od instd j of attempting Ids death, would h;e ' sent a chariot to fetch the infant to sc palace, and the oyer and terminer of Dilate’s courtroom would have pronounced him not guilty, and lustead of a cross and a crown of thorns It would have been a corona tion. with all the mighty ones of the earth kneeling at the foot of his throne. Another discovery that surprises us because we had not passed this way before is the fact that if two lie in quarrel or In war will) each other the one win Is the most wrong *s the hard est and the slowest to make up. Who wrote them 1 know not, hut I cut these two lines out and pasted them In my scrapbook twenty years ago. tor the words are so strikingly true* Forgrfvenon* to th* Injured does belong, But they ne’er pardon who have done the wron* We talk about the great discoveries of the age, the electric power, the steam power, the telescopic and mk ro- scopic power, but do not say anything about the discoveries we ail make year by year and day by day. There are surprises all the time. It Is a new road we are traveling. “Ye have not passed this way before.” Oar Only Opportunity. But closely allied is the other fact which we hinted at in the opening— that we will not pass this way again. This Is our only opportunity for doing certain things that ought to be done. On all sides there are griefs we ought to solace, hunger we ought to feed, cold that we ought to warm, kind words that we ought to sneak, generous deeds we ought to perfor^ All that you and I do toward making this world better and happier we must do very soon or never do at all. Joshua and his troops never came back over the way they were marching toward the crossing <>f the Jordan. The impress of the sandal or the bare feet of each soldier show* d in what direction lie was going, but never did the impress of the sandal of any one of them show that he hail re turned. We are all facing eternity to come. There is no retreat. Alertness and fidelity would not be so Important if we could truthfully say “I will he I back here again. The tilings 1 neglect i ! now I will do the next time 1 come. 1 I ! will be reincarnated, and I will resume my earthly obligations. Having then more knowledge than 1 have now, I will discharge my earthly diith*s better than I can now discharge them. 1 do , not give solemn farewell to these oldi- ] gallons and opportunities, but a smil ing and cheery goodbj until 1 see them again." No. we cannot say that. There will he no new and corrected edition of the volume of our earthly life. After ; we make exit from the stage at the close of the fifth act we cannot re-en ter. How many millions of people have lived and died I know not. but of all the human race who have gone only seven persons that I now think of have returned, the son of the widow at Zarephath. the young man of Nain. the ruler's daughter. Tabitha, Eutyehus. Lazarus and Christ. Among all the ages to come I do not suppose there will be one more who will return to this Ufe. having once left it Pat Yoar Trnut In God. At this point I ask you to notice the fact that my text does not call atten tion to the crossing of the Jordan, but to the way leading thereto. We all think much of our crossing of the Jor dan when the march of our life is end ed. but put too little emphasis on the way that lends to the crossing. What you and I need most to care about is the direction of the road we are trav eling. We need have no fear of the crossing If we come to It in the right way. In other words, we need not care about death If our life has been what It ought to be. We will die right If we live right What an absurdity It would have been for Joshua and bis men to have asked each other questions like these: “How can we cross the Jordan If wo get there? Will not the water be too deep to allow us to wade? Will we not all be so saturated that we may lose our lives by exposure? How many of us can ^wlm? Had we better not wait until the annual freshet has subsided?” No such folly did they commit. They were chiefly anxious about the way that they had “not passed before” and were Ignorant of and to keep their eyes on the golden covered ncaela box. wing mounted, which was the ark of the covenant. O hearer, stop bothering about your exit from ’sublunary scenes! By the grace of God get your heart right and then go ahead. If the Lord takes care of you clear on to the bank on thin side of the river, I think you can trust h'm to take you from bank to bank, from the willows on this side the stream to the palms on the other side, from the last kiss of sorrowing ones on this side to the welcome, saintly cherubic, seraphic, deific on the other Bide. Keep your eye on the ark, and. whatever bet ides,'you will go through all right One Easter morning Mnssena, the marshal of France, appeared with 18. OUO armed men on the heights above the town of Feldklrch. There were no arms to defend the town, and the in habitants were wild with terror. Then the old dean of tin* church cri d out: “My brothers, this is Easter day! Wo have been depending on our own strength, and that fails. Let us turn to God. Ring the bells and have serv ice as usual.” Then the hells rang out sweo ly and mightily from the church towers of Feldklrch. and the people thronged to the hniiM's of pray r for worship. The siXd of the hells mad** the enemy think that the Auntrian army had come in to save the place, and Mnssena and his 18.000 soldiers re treated. By the time the bolls had stopped ringing there was not one sol dier in sight. So. put your trust In God. and when hosts of troubles and temptations tuaroh for your overthrow ring all the hells of hope and faith and Christian triumph, and tin* threatening perils of your life will fall back, and your deliverance will he celebrated all up and down the skies. The Cod who led you through the way you never passed before will In* with you at all ! the crossings. B'opj rtglit. 1901. I.oul» Klapsch. X. 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That a'l citizens of the Town of Gaffney ontit ed t > vote at the General Elec tion In M.-.rch. 19C2. and desiring to register as requbed by law. may do so during busi ness hours on Saturday of each week, begin ning with the first Saturday In December at the Town Council Chambers, and also during business hours on any day after the 24th day of Feb., 1902. up to the time for dosing the reg stratlon books at the same place. Sec.2. H. L. S;iears ts hereby appointed Su pervisor of Registration of said town for said election. Done and ratified in Council assembled this IHth day of Nov.. 1901. W. II. Koss. N. II. Littlejohn. Town Clerk. . Mayor. 12-ia-.1t. Final Discharge. Notice Is hereby given that 1 will apply to Hon. J. E. Webster, Probate Judge for Chero kee County, S. C., at liis office at the court house, on Tuesday, the 7lh <iay of January. 1911'.*, for a iiuai settlement and discharge as administrator of the estate of Jas. Phillips, deceased. All persons holding claims against said es tate will present them on or before ssid date, or forever be barred. J. Eb Jefferies, Clk 0. O. Pis. and Admr. of said Est. Dec. 13-20 27 and Jan, 3. 1902. Notice of Final Settlement. By permission of Hon. J. E. Webster. Pro bate Judge for Cherokee County, S. C., I will, on .Saturday, January 4th near. 1902. at 10 o’di ck a. in., make my final return as ad ministrator of the estate of Mrs. Carrie K. MeKown, deceased, and apply for letters dismlssory. All persons holding claims against said estate are hereby not Bled to present them, properly atte.-ted.on or a ."ore that date, or they will be forever barred. Deo. loth, 1901. R. K. McKown, Adior. Estate Mrs. Carrie E. Mcivown, Dic'd. Published In Gaffney i edger Dec 13th,2(>th, 27th. Will, and Jan. 3rd, 1902 Tax Returns for tiie Year 1902. OFFICE OF COUNTY AUDITOR. Notice is hereby given that Hits office will be open from January 1.1902, to February 2a,. 15)02, for the purpose of receiving returns off of property for taxation. I will be at the following precincts at the times hereinafter mentioned: At Drayton vilie, Monday. January fith. At Wilkinsville, Tuesday, January 7th. At Sarratt’sstore. Wednesday. January sthn. At T. D. Littlejohn's (Asbury). Thursdays January 9th. At Ravenna (Brown’s store). Friday, Jan uary Kith. At Timber Ridge (M. M. Tate’s). Saturday: January llth. At Allen’s, Monday, January 13th. At White Plaius. Tuesday, January 14th. At Thtckety, Wednesday. January 15th. At Macedonia. Thursday. January 16th. At Ezell’s. Friday, January 17th. At Maud, Saturday, January 18th. At Cherokee Falls. Monday, January 20t k. At King’s Creek, Tuesday, January 21st. At Antioch, Wednesday, January 22nd. At Blacksburg. Thursday and Friday, Jan uary 23rd and 24th. At Buffalo. Saturday, January 25th. At Grassy Pond, Monday, January 27th. G. W. Speer will be in the office during roy absence. AM persons are required to say In what school district they live. Those having prop erty In School Districts Nos. 9 and 10 state in their returns how much of theta property lies in said districts; also all neo. buildings and their value. AH persons are required to make ouV andi return, on blanks furnished on appllcatfcm.. a statement of all personal property, money*,- credits, over and above their indebtedness, investment in bonds, joint stock companies orotlierwi.se, together with a complete re turn of all real prouerty, lands and build ings, such as dwellings, kitchens and bar»?v in your possession or under your control, ate. husband, parent, guardian, trustee, exec® tor. administrator, or accounting offteovv- agent or attorney, on tin* 1st day of Januaryr,, 1902. (as this is reassessment year of real) property) and fix a value thereto, and At bought, say who from, and if sold, say wb* - to, and location. 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