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t !>V ^3 51 UU- lil?]. •fr. , Sr. - // f.M Wasiiincton, Dec. 20.—While tliis discourse of Dr. Talnmfre rebukes ar rogance it encourages buinanity and shows how the evening of life may he brightened. The text is 1 Kings xx, 11, “Let Hot him that giideth on his harness hrast himself as he that put- teth it oil'.” Harness is the obsolete word for ar mor. It means harness for the man. not harness for the beast; harness for battle, not harness for the plow. The ancient armor consisted of helmet for the head, breastplate and shield for the heart, greaves for the feet. The text makes a comparison between a man enlisting for some war and a vet eran returning, the one putting on the armor ^td the other putting it off. BeiiLa.’ad, the king of Syria, thought O could easily overcome tin* king < f Israel. Indeed, the Syrian was so sure of the victory that ho spread an ante bellum banquet. With thirty-two kings he was celebrating what they were go ing to do. There were in nil thirty- throe kings at the carousal, and their condition is described in the Bible, not as convivial or stimulated exaltation, At the Soldiers’ home in the suburbs of this city I often admire the peaceful i and contented looks of the venerable | heroes as they sit under the trees or go In and out the tine abode that our gov ernment has appropriately provided for them. They are not longing for other Cbapultepecs. They do not want to undertake another South Mountain. Their foot does not ache to get into the stirrup of the cavalrymhn. Thev tiro not longing for the hardtack of the spldiers’ breakfast along the Chick- ahominy. They have no desire for an other ride in the ambulance to the field hospital. When the Spanish war broke out, they sometimes wondered if their rheumatic knee would allow them to keep step in a march, and if their sight was good enough to see an ad vancing foeman, and if their ear was alert enough to hear the command “Charge!” Hut for the most part they are glad that there is no more war for them. So let all of the aged in peace with God, through the blessed Christ, cultivate contentment and thank the Lord their Sedan has been fought and the war is over. “Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off.” There are old farmers who cannot do one more day’s work. What har vests they raised In 1870! They knew the rotation of crops as well es they knew the r tat ion of the seasons. Un der what blistering suns they swung the scythe and the cradle! Through what deep snbws they drew the logs or cut their way to the foddering of the cattle! What droughts, what fresh ets, what insectile invasions, they re member! To clothe and feed and edu- but drunk. Their gilded and bannered i cate the household they went through pavilions were surrounded by high mettled horses, neighing and champing and hitched to chariots such as kings rode in. lutthadad sends officers over to the king of Israel demanding the surrender of the city, saying, “Tin u shall deliver me thy silver and thy gold and thy wives and thy children.” and afterward sends other offb-ers. saying that the pa!ace of the king will be searched and everything Benhabad warts iie will take without aski g. Then tin* king of Israe! call d a i oun.-il word is it ms sent Ian k usonalile •a Henhad I he king < to Ih n- deu and id sends f Israel. 'ha of arrogance and brava- cf war. ha dad will he another a mess; do, praei iealiy ty.ng: “V e will no stroy you utterly. I will grind, Samaria into tin* dust, but then* will not be dust enough to h.ake a handful for each one of my troop: .” Then the king of Israel replied to Lenhadad. pi act h a by say ing: “Let me see you do what you say. You royal braggart, you might •better have p r iponeu your banquet un til after the battle instcau of spreading It before the battle. You Imzra too goon. 'Let not him that girdeth on his barners. boast himself as he that put- lb it off. ’’ Too . , !m*li nooMtinit. An avub noho of courage and right eousness. the Israelitish army came down on B nhadad and his host. It was a hand to hand fight, each Israel ite hewing down a Syrian. Benhadad. on horseback, gets away with some of the cavalry, but is only saved for a worse defeat, in which 10:1,000 Syrian infantry wen* slaughtered in one day. Now we see the sarcasm and the epi grammatic power of the message of my text s< nt by the king of Israel to Benhadad. “Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself us he that putteth it off.” All up and down history we see such too early boasting. Soult, the marshal of Frrineo. was so certain that ho would conquer that he had a proclama tion printed announcing himself king of Portugal and had a grand feast pre pared for 4 o'clock that afternoon, but before that hour he tied in ignominious defeat, and Wellington of the conquer ing host sat down at 4 o'clock at the very banquet the marshal <*f France had ordered for himself. Charles V. invaded France and was so sure of conquest that tm requested Paul .Ic- vius. the historian, to gather together a large amount of paper on which to write the story of his many victories, but disease and famine seized upon his troopers, and lie retreated in dis may. So Renhadad’s behavior lias been copied in ail ages of the world. It will be i; y o’ jeet. among oilier les sons, to rhow that he who puts off the armor, having finished the battle, is more to be congratulated than he who begins. First, I find encouragement In this subject for the aged who have got through the work and struggle of earthly life. My venerable friends, if you had at twenty-five years of age full appreciation of what you would hrve to go through in the thirties anil the forties and the fifties of your life time you would have been appalled. Fortunately the bereavements, the temptations, the persecute ns. the hardships, were curtained from your Bight. With more or less fortitude you passed through the crises of pain and sadness and disappointment and fa tigue and still live to recount the di vine help th;»*t sustained you. At twen ty or thirty years of your age at the tup of the drum you put on the har ness. Now. at sixty or seventy or eighty, you are peacefully putting It off. You would not want to try tin* battle of life over again. So many of Just your temperament and with as good a starting and as tine a parentage and seemingly with as much equipoise of character as you had have made complete shipwreck that you would not want again to run the risks. Though you ran look back and see many mistakes, the next time you might make worse mistakes, instead of being depressed over the fact that toils and seif sacrifices that the world know hut little about. Best, aged man! Let tin* boys do the shoveling and thrashing and cutting and sweating. You have put the harness off, and do not try to put it on again. There are old mechanics that can no more shove the plane or pound with the hummer or bore with the bit or run up tie* hoMor !■> the scaffolding. Mas ter nne* iiiirs they were or subordi nates who wrought faithfully in the v irk of I:* use or barn or ship building. You have a rinlit to quit. You have fit >,ln il your task. Be thankful that your work is done. Fiiillifel Service rteniemhered. Tliun there are aged physicians. What j tragedies of pain and accident they I have witnessed! How much suffering i they have assuaged! How many brave bailies they have fought with lancet ' and cataclysm! How many fevers they I cooled! How many broken bones they ; set! How many paroxysms theyqu'et- ed! How many anxious days they passed when they knew that human lives depended upon their skill and fidelity! They drove back death from ! many a cradle. And there are the old ministers. Once , they were foremost in general assetn- | Mies and eonfen aces ami associations. ; They have preached in IVntecosis. ; They have stood by Christian death beds and seen Klijahs go up in flaming chariots of glory. The gospel they j preached for fifty or sixty years ii- j lumines their ev ry feature, ffney have stopped preaHiing, for their breath is , short, or their nerves are a-Jangle, or i th y lose their thread of discourse or ! Do not boast of your moral strength. One of the most brilliant men of the nineteenth century, having temporarily reformed from inebriacy, stood on the platform of Broadway tabernacle. New York, and said, “Were lids great globe one crystallite uml I were offered the possession of it if I would drink one glass of brandy I would refuse with scorn, and I want no religion to help me.’’ But that same man died at I’oughkeepsie a drunken pauper. Bet ter underrate than overrate ourselves. Fninoaii Sentiment Re^nted. My subject is also a refutation of the famous sentiment that God is on the side of the heaviest artillery. From all I can read about this struggle Ben hadad spoke the truth when he said, “The gods do so unto me and more also if the dust of Samaria shall suf- j lice for handfuls for all the people that | follow me.” He was so confident that j with his superior numbers he could j defeat the king of Israel and capture 1 Samaria that he left the work for a ; short afternoon. He is nt noon In wassail with his royal associates. The j battle of Waterloo was not opened un- i til twenty-five minutes of 12 o’clock j at noon, but that was because the | ground was too wet to move the artil- j lery. Benhadad waits until afternoon because lie is overconfident. God is not on the side of the most swords or the most war chariots or the most can- j non if they be in the wrong, but on 1 the side of the right. How such a pre- | posterous sentiment as 1 have mention ed should have gained sw^v I know not when all history proc!a!®.-i the op- ! posite. Describing tin* very next bat- | tie in which Benhadad fought and was I miserably defeated, the Bible says, j “The children of Israel pitched before them like two little flocks of kids, hut I the Syrians filled the country.” How | insignificant were the unarmed Israel- ; ites, half starved and unorganized, compared with Pharaoh’s host on foot, on horseback and charioted! Rnt the waves of the Bed sea took part in the conflict, parting to lot the pursued 1 pass, hut coming together to destroy the pursuers. The Midianites and Ainalekitos were like grasshoppers for multitudes, but ff ’d men uuder Gideon came down, their only weapons pitch ers and lamps and trumpets, and as tlmy held up tin* lamps and threw down the pitchers and blew (in* trum pets the flash of tlr* lights and the bl.ire of the instruments and the crash of the crockery made their enemy fall bne’; in wild terror. Notice also that my text takes it for granted fl at you must put on the har ness, else how can you take it off? Life is a bat!le~a thirty years’, a forty years’ or a sixty years’ war. Helmet you must have, for the battleaxes e,f skepticism and agnosticism are aimed at your head. Every possible effort will lie made to make you think wrong. The young man who gets Ids head filled with ivrotig notions about God. about Christ, about tin* soul, about tla* great beyond, is air ady captured. Put on the helmet, tin* latchet well adjusted under the chin. Think right, and you will act right. Yes, hr<*asip!ate for tin* heart. That is the mest important part to 1“ defend* o. That decides what you love and what you hate, wnr.t you hope armor or ribbed armor, fashioned in ancient foundry, but no one can give you the outfit you need except God, who is master of this world and the infernal world, from which ascend the mightiest hostilities. Lay h Id of God. Nothing but the arm of Omnipotence is strong enough for the tempted. SfrenKhh In tin* Closm*! Armor. Young man. put on the entire gospel outfit. If you have come from the country to live in the city, imitate the example of a young man who arrived in New York on Saturday night, in tending the following Monday to enter his place of employment. On Sunday morning, carrying out the good advice before leaving his country home, he went to church. Standing at the door, he was abashed as the beauty and fashion and wealth swept through the doors of the sanctuary, and he dared not go in. As he was about turning to go away a gentleman said, “Have you a seat, young man?” “No, sir.” “Do you belong to the city?” "No, sir.” “Where is your home?” "In the country.” "How long have you been in the city?” "I came in last night.” “What are you going to do here?” “I hope to go into business tomorrow.” “That is right. You have begun well, young man. Never forsake the God of your fathers. Come, I will give you a sent in my pew.” The next morning the young man presented his letter in business circles. “What do you* want, young man?” said the Scotch mer chant. "I want to got credit on some leather, upper and sole.” “Have you references?” “I think I can get refer ences. My father has friends here.” “Young man, did I not see you yester day in Mr. Lenox’s pew?” “I do not know, sir. I was at church, and a kind gentleman asked me to sit in his pew.” “YVs, young man. that was Robert Lenox. I will trust any one that Mr. Lenox invites into ids pew. You need not trouble yourself about references. When these goods are gone, come and get more.” That young man became an eminent merchant and. more than that, a Chrisiian merchant, and lii* attribute d all his success to that first Sabbath in the city. Young LEARN STENOGRAPHY BY MML To those wishing to learn Mutj»oi<’» tem of Phenograpic short-hand 1 can I si*- nish the ixioks (post p:dd) at pirbls priees. i tie entire course is covered by trr* ifcC •. lessons arranged by Mr. Munson hirn«i<‘.r * ns to enable any one to acquire a know!* a.#?' of \ he art without the aid of a n-i.cln r. The Art < f Phonography Is f!i»- only •*-»» >•** that teaches Munson’s System fu:,v. aew ut -*> price is im ('l l will give the book with th** twi»r*»*v lessons by mall for ft hi. 't his ncluv.* - correction of the written exercises. 1-awk-tt. Jas. L. 5train, Ktia Jane. S. •*, A Medicine for Old People. Rev. Geo. Gay, Greenwich, Ka&, is past 83 years of ace, yet he says; “I am enjoying excellent health for a man of my age, due entirely to the rejuven ating influences of Dr. Miles’ Nervine. It brings sleep and rei-t when nothing else will, and gives strength and vital ity even to one of my old age.” “I am an old soldier.” writes Mr. Geo. Watson, of Newton, la., “and 1 have been a great sufferer fr m nervousness, vertigo and spinal trouble. Have spent considerable money for medicine and doctors, but with little benefit. I was so bad my mind showed signs of weak lier?. I began taking Dr. Miles’ Nervine, and I know it saved uiv life.” Nervine Dr. Miles* Saved me from the insane asy lum.” Mrs. A. M. Ileifner, of Jerico Springs, too., v-rites. “I was so nerv ous that I could scarcely control my self, could not sleep nor rest, void 1 even forget the names of my own children at times. I commenced using Dr. Miles’ Nervine and it helped me from the first, and now I am perfectly well.” Sold by all Druggists on Guarantee. Dr. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind. CANDY CATHARTIC m All DrnretiiU. for aii'l what you despise. ’bat do suffer from confusion of ideas. Cheer | up, aged dominies and doctors. The j Bible ssiys God forgets our sins win n we repent of them, but he never for gets faithful services rendered, lie re members that revival where you stood watching the souls that came “as clouds cud as doves to the windows. ’ He has indicated by your physical or mental condition that it is time for you to slop. Be content to stop. Your helmet bears the mark of many a hattleax; your sworn is bent from many a holy strug gle; your shield is dented with t! e thrust of many a spear. Now hang up the armor with gladness. llMYiMC* nrnKU'a Jocin. Again, I learn from Benhadad’s be havior the unwisdom of boasting of what one is going to da. Two mes sages had he sent to the king of Israel, both messages full of insolence and braggadocio. With brimming beaker In hand he is talking with the royal group about what he will do with the spoils of the victory he is going to achieve that afternoon. He takes it for granted that Samaria will surren der. He gives command for the cap ture of some of the inhabitants of Samaria win are approaching, saying. “Whether they be come out for peace bike them alive, or whether they he come out for war take them alive.” But behold the fugitive king in fright ened retreat before sundown! Better not tell boastingly what you are going to do. Wait until it is done. You do well to lay out your plans, but there are so many mistakes and disappoint ments lu life that you niffy not be able to carry out your plans, and there is no need of Invoking the world's de rision and caricature. Napoleon was so sure of conquering England. Scot land and Ireland that he had a medal struck celebrating the conquest, which he never made. On that qtodnl was rcpreseii'od his own crowned head. Dr. I'endlet'.M and Mr. Saunders were bilking !n the tune of persecution under Cjin ai Mary. Saunders was i eiqbllng and afraid, but iVudleton said: "What! Man. there is much i.ioie* eause for me to iY:*r than you. You are sinall. ami I have a Urge bodily frame, but you will see tin* last piece of ties tlcsh consumed to ashes befi ro I ever forsake .losus Christ and his truth, which I ha’.«• inofes.-K :1.’’ Not long aft er Saunders, the faint bearied. pave cidi s earthly happiness and eternal des tiny. HeYvnre of Hidden Foes. Young man, see that you have on a complete armor. All looks bright now, and it seems as if you could marcli right on without opposition or attack, but be not deceived. There are hidden foes ready to halt you on your way. The same cup that Benhadad drank our of just before bis defeat will be offered to effect your deft at. His Intoxicated brain saw victory when there was nothing hut rout and ruin. Y\ hat work Bcnhadad’s cup made for Benhadad’s army! What shipwrecks on the sea. what disasters on the land, caused by inflaming liquids put upon the tongue to set seething the brain! How many kings of thought and influence, with crowns brighter than the one Benhadad wore, have by strong drink been put Into flight ns base as that in which Benhadad rode! "Give them to me.” says the demon of inebriacy. “Give them to me; band them down—the brightest legislators of the land. 1 will thicken their tongue; 1 will bloat their cheek; I will stagger their step; 1 will damn their soul. Hand them down to me- tiie physician out of his labora tory. the attorney from the courtroom, the minister of the gospel from the al tars of God. Hand them down to me. the queens of the drawing room, and l will disgrace their names and biast their homes and throw them down far ther than Jezebel fill to die dogs tbat crunched her carcass.” We hold our breath in horror as once in awhile we hear of some one, either man just arrived, put yourself under good influences your first day in town. Then* ban's your helmet. Take it dow n There is your breastplate. Ad just it. There is all the harness for safely and triumph. Put it on. Also see in my subject the f lly of nuderc ffimafing the enemy. That was Bonhadad’s fatal mistake-. He 0: 1 whip them before sundown. He waul ed less than half a day to capture Sa maria and make the king < f Israel ca pitulate. But-what he thought was s i easy turned out to bo the impossible. Better overestimate than underesti mate the other side. We who are try ing to make the world what it ought to he contend not with homunculi. We | wrestle not with striplings. We have a whole army i t antagonists trying to halt the King of God and overthrow the cause of righteousness. If we se cure the victory, it will be a struggle as fierce as when Darius and Alexan- 1 <U’r grappled each other at Arbeln. as when Joan of Are rode triumphant at Orleans, us when the Russians met th * Swedes at I’oltavfN .as when Marlbor ough commanded the n'ii'Kd armies at_’ Blenheim. Those wore fights f r eSffh- j !y crowns and dominions, but the tight that now goes ?m between all the allied 1 armies of heaven and all the allied ar mies of hell is to settle whether God or Satan is to have possession of this planet. Put Off the IlfirncMN. I congratulate all those who are now In the thickest of life’s battles that the time is coming when the struggle will end and you will pdt the harness off. helmet and greaves and breastplate having fulfilled their mission. You cannot in one xisit to London Tower see all. You must go again and again n iOt imnne stamped C. C. C. Never sold in bulk. Beware of the dca’er who tries to sell “something just as good.” At WAVS KEEP ON HAND ^ THERE IS H0 Ki°lD OF PfiiW ACHE, INTERNAL 0® EXTERNAL, ® THAT PAIN-KILLER WILL KOT RE LIEVE. LOOK OUT FOR IMITATIONS AND SUB- S’-'ITUTES. THE GENUINE BOTTLE BEARS THE NAME, PERRY DAV5S A SON. Fina! Discharge. Notice is lir*r; by clven that 1 will apply to b If ■■ ■ i.'.^whfr^vProb'Ho J uUgo for < 'hm-u- -irf'c Comity. ortho* at the court house, on Tucs<nf^^^kyi uay of January. l'."Ll for a fiu.'il s*-i discharge as administrator of the cstiit^^^fns. IMdhips 1 deceased. All persons hoiking claims agabisl^said es tate w ill present tbern on or before sa\i date, or forever be barred. \ J. Fll JF.FKKHIES, <Tk ('. Pis. a*.i'l Admr. of said Kst 1 Pec. 14-21* 2T and Jan, 4, Tax Returns for Ihe Year I9S2 OFFICE OF COUNTY AUOITOR- Notice Is hereby given that tics office n U be open from January 1. 1!«>2. t< Fchruavy •.&. l!Ht\ for the purpose of receiving retuft#? of property for taxation. I will fr* at the following precincts at times hereinafter mentioned: At Draytonville, Monday. January tilt*.. At \\ ilkinsvilie, Tuesday, January 7t?.«- At Harriot's store, Wednesday. January . AtT. ]>. Littlejohn’s (Asbury). Thurso'-a.; January 9th. At Havenna (Brown’s store). Friday, JU*/ uary Iflih. At Timber Ridge (M. M. Tate’s . H.itiuef u: January lith. At Allen’s, Monday, January Id'b. At White Plains, Tuesday, January 1-UJ- At Thiekety, Wednesday. January l;»t;» At Macedonia, Thursday, January Hitt,. At Ezell's. Friday. January 1',* 1., At Maud, Saturday, January Istli. At Cherokee Falls, Monday, January At King’s Creek, Tuesday, January At Antioch, Wednesday, January 22m2. At Blacksburg. Thursday and Friday, -bar- uary 2Jrd and 24th. At BufTalo. Saturday. January LLth. At Grassy Pond. Monday, .iaim ry 271 ,g. <i. W. Speer will be in the office during, arx' absence. All persons are required to say in v.'tv* . school district Lhoy live. Those having ivrv**.- ertyin School Districts Nos. 9 and It* state in their returns how much of > » property lies in said districts; los* a]’ we-s buildings and their value. All persons are required to make out s»*v. return, on blanks furnished 011 : pplicii/.v.,: a statement of ail persona I proper. >. mo*, -vy ■ credits, investment in bonds, joint stock -••riv - panics or otherwise, toget her with a oomi.^t- return of all real prouerty, lands and logs, such a. dwellings, kitchens and tv.grjr in your possession or uneer your oontr*V hU'bnnd. p .rent. guardian, trustee, e.**-* rw • tor. administrator, or a'-counthi- offb*^- .- agent or aU' 1 nov. on the 1st dn> • an- . | Jih'2 (..s tliis is rcassessm* nt ye . of r»- / propertj) and lix a value therci . am,', liough.. say v.iio from, and if so:,:, .-.ay wimi \ to, and location. * If you fail in make return as specaied : fore ino 2<)tbof February, ne.xl. 11 aw — ; quires me to non r>o per cent o • :t:i p"oj*»-rr ! of iasl year. I Poii 1 say, same as last year or no «•!. : Ail returns of person:;, p.operiy , : r 1 scriplion of real estate tocei >0 :roi;» ai ya ( f x payer must lx* writ;eu in ini. s. ,;:*.••{ sworn to by flic party making tie .- rnt*. *’ *’ j taken by any p' l'son other than r yscit • - ! i* y clerk it must he sworn to b.d! r<* **Krm* 1 person nut Uori/ed to administer •>a'!.'s. F*> * 1 ty making r< tn*ns is liable for taxes in «*■ i fault of principal City In >nd.s, personal Itnnds. ami ?: on go..*' as. | vessels am* bunts of all d'-scriptior mu-l ’ • returned. A I persons lL>bl<* e r : la x under section of tin- Acts 1 i b* t required to make return of same. !v : property owned or controlled i*y tin. payer on January 1st must be !is•o• , ; s ; her properiy. Land is ass-ss'-d us q ert v of the person having the leg- • *:• Polo Tax—All males between li. > | Ml and tie years are liable for :*. p* . i t . cepl. Confederate soldiers, or 1 nose * j earn a support, or are malmi d, or •: Lille isalied. \T. P. ('aim*. An I it Notice of Final Settlement. By permission of Hon. J. E. Webster. Pro bate Judge for Cherokee < oumy, S. C., I will. at 10 1o that place, which is associated with ' ‘‘ n •"in(unlay, January 4'h n«-ir. 190: o’el ek a. in., make my Hkh! return as ad- the story cf Lady Jam* Grey and Anne Bhleyn and Waiter Raleigh and Sir Thomas More. You will see the crowns of kings and queens, tin* robe worn by the Black Prince, and silver baptismal fonts from which royal infants were christened,and tin* block < n which Lord Lov.lt was beheaded. But no part of London Tower will more interest you than the armory, in which is skillfully and impressively arranged a <* 1 lection of all styles of armor worn between | vho thirteenth and eighteenth centu ries. suggesting oOO years of conflict— cuirass and neck guard and chin piece | and lance rest and gauntlet and girdle and mailed apron. You see just how from head to heel those old time war riors were defended against sharp weapons. O ye soldiers of Jesus Christ, when tne war of life is over and the victors rest in the soldiers' home on the heav enly heights perhaps there may .be in idlf: moivicy. can use it for cotton. Will > :-o nrttilwr of <.nr : p* -ci nt.c<-riiM tcrost^tobyHlile January and July. Ti cotton miff invcs'.mcnt n . no. At., sn't. No nb'preci itinn. lindoomiin notice. Guwi.uiteefl by r >.< i n r* :> • .<. ;t*ii. KemitVlu ct or ci II utoar office. FINO’fcimi.LE'SrFG J. B. Licks, Hoc. an? 1 u w u J:in 15 ministntor of the estate of Mrs. Carrie E. McKown, deceased, am! apply for letters dismiss >ry. A'l persons bolding claims against said estate are hereby notified to present them, properly attmted.on or before that date, or they will be forever barred.. Pe.\ loth, 1901. R. F. McKown, Admr. list * to Mis. Carrie E. McKo»u, Pec’d. Published in Gaffney I e.lgcr Pec Hitli, 20tii. 21 ti*. Del, and Jan. 3rd. 190: MONEY TO LOAN. On farm lands. Easy payments, i*.., e"***— r; -cdon charged Borrower pa v» . ti.«,l *. perfecting loan. Interest s.-von «p. nceoi uieg to security. JOHN B, PALMER & SOS, Friday’s tOec.2s ColLimbia. S- Foley’s Kidney Cure Foley 9 s Honey and T&m makes kidneys and bladder right, for ciiildren t safe f sure. No opia*%z. In by accident or su.cide. going oxer Ni- : {i 1( . ,.jty of the sun n tower of.spiritual agfirn falls, but the tides, the depths, nru'^rysucti as iuensed the AVarriors f. r Christ PuT.riWllh^ ? in ni.'i the awful suis.es of intemperance are eve^- hour of every day rushing scores of immortals down into uufathomed abysm. Suicides by the hundreds of thousands! Suicides by the million! Beware of the cup out of which Ben hadad drank personal and national demolition! v , Yes. you must him- full arm or. There are temptations to an Impure life all the time muUiplying and intensifying. Bead in private and disci ssed aft r- ward by the rcfln *d and elegant In parlors are books poisoned froia lid to lid with Impurities. L ose chfirnctcrs in tiie nove-l appluudt^ by rb-dor* r! pens and projirlcties of life enri^jiml as prudery and infidelity of/behavior tftm tffff! Some duv w“ may lie irt fliat armory and hear tiie heroes talk of how they fought tiie good fight of faith and see them with the scars of wounds forever healed and look at tin* weapons of offense and defease with which they became more than conquerors. In that tower of heaven n« tin* weapons of the s,)!r- itual conflict are examined St. Fun! may point out to us tiie armor with which in* advised tiie Fphesini.s to eq' ip tin n.-'clvcs and say; "That is thy shield of faith. That Is the hel;*'' l salvation. That is tin* gir 'l*”. 1 '* U'uih. That is th< breastplate ^ I'iL'htcous- Beginning Tuesday, Jan. 7th, we will gin on the following days;, in each week: <:Tuesqay, Thuts— day and Satyrj V1CTQR OR. up his life for Clirist’s sake, while I’en dleion. who imd talked so big. played coward ami gave up religion when the test came. Wiilierforce did not M» you are being counted out or omitted | wlmt lie was going to do with In the great undertakings of the church and the world, rejoice that you have a right to hang up your helmet and aheatlie y ur sword ami free your bauds from tiie gaunt lets and your feet from t bc boots of nitiil. the slave trade, but how much le* act ,ni- p!! bed is suggested by Lord Brough- a ms n man; r ne'ruing Wiliierfo-ce after lbs decease, “He went to hea .11 ’viib 'lou.joq broken fetters in his hi* id.” put in a way to excite syu half approvcl. My w.iudcr many g astray, but 111 v vl * * r t< 11 tini' x !’..*• many are ikj There are fhtiuenees ;.t wl un.aiT' sted. will turn ot Fud ms and Goin .rrulis he;! :*'id t’rc aud brimstonl digjiiiLon Oh. yes, you nee 1 the h| til God tells you to take' cn time it was leaUi* rn ul pthy and tiiat'so * ir. that .•bed. ness. Th 'se r.ro th which they arnt!on then t If J X Mill shoes ill od with ihe proi>- Tfciqa* »od I the <f(in‘r*fl , iHu*t s , _ ■on enlistih! in n- the y when* : y farew 11 and | and t’.ie text, j meaning for us meaning for us $n that girdeth on h.s 111 self us he tin.! l»Ut- CIUTIOR Brwav* of oonc q . . - ton with/ bend for Circular to Vfl I / tire AFTER / '*ii» Klopsch, N. V.]