Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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J. C. OTTS, Attorney and Counselor. Oftlct uustalrs. between R. A. Jones and Javenport.. Office and Residence .Phone. Dr. C. T. LIPSCOMB. Dentist, Office over R. A. (one* A Co.’s Store Oan be Tounrt at office six davs In the weeli turn': CONDITION OF THE COTTON COOP Monthly Report of Statisti cian of Agriculture. TEN YEAR AVERAGE OF 82.8. ' OUTBREAK IN HAITI PRACTICALLY OVER So Cables Captain McCrea oi Gunboat Machias. QUIET PREVAILS EVERYWHERE. FOR RELIEF OF CURA'S FINANCIAL STRAITS Senate Prepares Way For Circulating $35,000,000. HOUSE BILL IS APPROVED. Dr. D. P. THOMSON, Dentist. ^'"Office over National Bank. J. E. WEBSTER, A.tt orntrjr-A.t- Lvi* Vf, fficem CourtHouae.(Probate-Judge aoftn-i Gaffney City. S. C. Practices in all theennm. a'oDmi . Mona a apeidaltv William S. Hall, Jk. James A. Willis. HALL & WILLIS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. os*. c;. Notary Public In office. Prompt attention given to aL business. Office over R. A. Jones & Uo.’s store. hR. J. F. GARRETT, Dentist, Gaffney, - - - S. C. Office over J. R. Tolleson's new ston In office from lot t.o 26tb of each month: SHINGLES, BRICK, SASH, DOORS, BLINDS and all kinds of Building Ma terial, Paints, Oils, Etc. for sale at a small per cent, above cost for cash. Estimates made without charge. L. BAKER Do Your Duty. “England expects every man to do his duty,” said Nelson at Trafalgar, and “duty performed is tha sublimest achievement.’ said R. E. Lee. Then why not Insure your property in the Cherokee Mutual Fire In surance Company and be bappy, freeing yourself from anxiety as to the effect a loss of your house would curtail on yourself and family also. This is the cheapest insurance known among men and your money kept at home. Instead of swelling: the Coffers of Northern Co-operations tc he used for enslaving the many for the benefit of the few in the Gigan tic Trusts which seek to control the stap e necessities of life, or is loaned to the despots of Europe to Lin I the shackles of slavery tighter upon the 1 i ibs of their helpless sub jects. If you feel it your duty to insure, tills company asks tliai you consider the claims it lias upon you. Rev. A. D. Davidson, and Frank McCluny, Agents. F^or Building and Plastering Lime Coal, and Plaster Hair. Plaster Pans. Kosendale Cement, Portland Oerueut, Dynamite, Blasting Powder. Fuse and Dynamite Caps, call on Except In Some of the Western States a More or Less Marked Deteriora tion Is Reported From the Entire Cotton Beit V/ashington, Aug. 4.—The monthly reportof the statistician of the depart- ment of agriculture shows the ever- age condition of cotton on July 25 to have been 81.9 as compared with 84.7 on June 25; 77.2 on July 25, 1901; 76 on August 1, 1900; 8t on August 1, 1899, and a ten-year average of 82.8. Except in Texas and Oklahoma, which report averages of condition on July 25 4 points higher than last month, and Indian Territory, where there has been an improvement of 6 points, and Missouri, where there is no appreciable change, a more or less marked deterioration is reported from the entire cotton belt, the decline amounting to 1 point In Virginia, 2 in Arkansas, 4 in Louisiana, 5 in Missis sippi, 6 in Tennessee, 7 in North and South Carolina and Alabama; 8 in Georgia and 12 in Florida. There is a marked absence of uniformity of conditions in the states making the most unfavorable showing, not a few counties reporting a condition far above the average and some even reaching the high figure of 100. The condition in the principal states is reported as follows: North Carolina, 86; South Carolina, 88; Georgia, 83; Florida, 84; Alabama, 77; Mississippi, 80; Louisiana, 81; Texas, 77; Arkansas, 92; Tennessee, 92; Oklahoma, 94; Indian Territory, 95. WOMAN’S CONGRESS. Large Attendance on Convention at Monteagle, Tenn. Chattanooga, Tenn., Aug. 4.—The Woman’s congress held its opening session at Monteagle at 9:30 o’clock this morning, beginning with devo tional exercises. Delegates were pres ent from all the leading woman’s organizations. The visitors were warmly received by • a delegation of assembly ladies headed by Miss Josephine A. Pearson, chairman of the reception committee; Miss M. B. Pilcher, president of the board, and Mr. W. D. Beard, of Mem phis, chairman of the program com mittee. Mrs. Newman, of New York, ren dered a vocal solo, which was fol lowed by a recitation by Miss Wag oner. A discussion, “The Child Ever In Our Midst,” was led by Miss Victoria Campbell. Mrs. Mary Jewett Telford addressed the congress on “The Divine Handwrit- after which a noontide prayer- PiTWing was held. The feature of the afternoon was a lecture by the noted Miss Carrie Leo Carter, on “The Subject of a Half Hour with the Brethren.” COMMODORE MONTGOMERY DIES. « ■ « At I . V ■ WTY 1 CARROLL & CO., Lessees. T“l«phon*» 57. Southern Kuilwuy Schedule. Trains from Atliinta. Greenville. Spartan burg, etc., for Charlotte, Washington, etc pass Gaffney. S. C., No. :tli. Fast Mall, (daily 7:20 a. m, No. 12 (daily) 4:J0 p. m; No. 40, Ex- ross, (daily) 7:32 p. m; No. :ts. Limited.(daily) :40 p m. No. stops at Gaffney on signal intake on passengers for Washington and beyond. Trains from Washington. Charlotte, etc., for Spartanburg, Greenville, Atlanta, etc, pass Gaffney: No. HO, Express, (daily) 0:5H a. m; No. Ha. Fast Mall, (dally) 11:42 p. m; No. 11 (daily) 2:27 p. m; No. H7. Limited, (daily 10:50 a. m. Nd. .17 stops at Gaffney on signal to let imT nasst-iigt-i s irou, \\ ..shi.igtOi*. Through trains for Washington :ind til East. Connections at Atlanta for all paint *20 irlnutes fordinner. Note: Trains Nos H2 and :tH are operated daily. Trains Nos H4. H5, 11. 12. 1H. 14. 15 and 16 are operated daily except Sunday. CONNECTIONS MADK BY SOI TIIOI NI) TRAINS. At Marion: No. 32 connects at Marion with Southern Ky train No. M Which arrives at Marion at 8:2s a. m., from Cliattanooga. Ashe ville and intermediate points. At Blacksburg: No. H4 and No. II connect witii Southern Ky train "o. HO which arrives at Blacksburg at 7:45 a. m., from Atlanta, Greenville, Spartanburg and intermediate points. At Yorkvllle: No. 34 connects with C & N. W. train No. 70 which leaves Yorkvllle at 10:48 a.m., for Gastonia. Lenoir and Inter- mediatlpolnts. At Rock Hill: No’s 32 and 34 connect with Southern Ry train No. 75 which leaves Rock- Hill atilato p. m.. for Chester, Columbia and intermediale points. At Catawba Jet: No’s 32 and-34 connect witii S. A. L. train No. 32 which passes Ca tawba Jet at 7:54 p. in., for Monroe and Inter mediate points. At Lancaster: No’s 32 and 34 connect witii L. & C. train No. 16 which leaves Lancaster at 4:45 p. m., for Chcstei and intermediate points- At Camden witii A. C. L. (N. W. of S. C.) for Charleston, Sumter, Florence. Diriington, Wilmington and intermediate uoints. Train No. 68 which leaves Camden at 4:15 p. rn CONNECTIONS MADE RY NORTHBOUND TRAINS. At Camden: With A. C. L. (N. \V. of S. C.) No. 71 from Charleston, Florence, Darlington. Wilmington and Intermediate points, which arrives at Camden at 11:15 a. m.; witii South ern Ry train No. 77 wlilcli arrives at Camden at 11;55 a. m. from Kingsville At Lancaster: No- 33 connects at Lancaster with L. & C. train No. 16 for Chester and In termediate points. At Rock Hill: No’s 33 and 35 connect at Rock Hill with Southern Ry train No. 34. leaving Rock Hill at 8:26 p. m., for Charlotte and points north. At Blacksburg: No. 33couneets with South ern Ry trains No 12 at 4:38 p. m„ No. 38 at 7:06 p. m. and No. 40 at 7;45 p. m. for points north. No’s 33 and 35connect! with Southern Ry train No. 35, leaving Blacksburg at 11:25 p. m., for points south. At Marion: No 33 connects with Southern Ry train No. 35. leaving Marlon at 11:40 p. m , for Asheville. Chattanooga and intermediate points. Through car service without change be tween Marlon and Charleston on trains No’s W and 33. E. H. SHAW, Gen. Pass. Agt Aged Confederate Naval Officer Passes Away at Chicago. Chicago, Aug. 4.—Commodore Jo- eeph E. Montgomery, the aged con federate naval officer who nearly cap tured General Grant during the civil war, died here today, at the home of his son. Dr. James Montgomery. Commodore Montgomery was born in Carrollton, Ky., in 1817. and from his youth until the war broke out was engaged in river traffic. At the bat tle of Mobile hay he played a conspic- uouse part. He also was at the bat tle of Fort Pillow and New Orleans, and at Memphis he lost his fleet. He was an intimate friend of Jefferson Davis. H« lost his eyesight 12 years ago and since that time had lived in this city. Huntington’s Street Car Strike. Huntington, W. Va., Aug. 4.—No vi olence has been manifested here in the street railway strike. All the cars are being operated between here and Ashland, Ky., with non-union men, but they are being patronized but little. Union sympathizers still line the streets and avenues and plead with all who sympathize with union labor not to patronize the cars. Their plead ings usually are successful. At pres ent there seems to be no one to settle the strike on this side of the Ohio river. In the manufacturing districts many cars have been struck with eggs today. Loan Is Authorized. Washington, Aug. 4.—-The state de partment has received the following telegram from Minister Squires, dated Havana, Aug. 4th: “The house has passed bill authorizing loan $35,000,- 000, premium rate of issue, 90 par cent. Maximum Interest 6 per cent; redeem able in forty years.’ ' Preparation* to Receive Kaiaer. St. Petersburg, Aug. 4.—-Extensive preparations are being made for the reception of Emperor William on his approaching visit to Russia. He will be met by the czar In the roadstead of Reval and together they will wit ness the maneuvers of the Russian squadron off the Island of Carlo. Rebels Have Been Driven From Crit ical Positions and No Further Dan ger of Disturbance Is Anticipated. Machias Will Soon Leave. Washington, Aug. 4.—Captain Mc Crea. of the gunboat Machias, today cabled the navy department that tha outbreak in Haiti is practically over. The cablegram, which is dated Capo Haitien, Aug. 4, is as follows: “After interviewing authorities as pect of affairs appears more satisfac tory. Nationales are well armed. Reb els have been diven from critical po sitions. ??/Ule enthusiasm. No fur ther danger of serious disturbances." Captain McCrea requested permis sion to go to Sau Juan, Porto Rico for coal. This was granted him, and tha Machias probably will come north un less there is another outbreak in Haiti. QUAY HAS NARROW ESCAPE. Senator Is Overtaken by Fierce Storm In Fishing Smack. New York, Aug. 4.—United States Senator M. S. Quay has had an excit ing experience here, says a dispatch to The New York American from At lantic City. He was out in a little fishing smack, enjoying a day’s deep sea sport, when he was caught in a fierce storm and swept to sea. The senator was fishing with his old friend, Captain Sooy. They wero about 10 miles out when the storm came. The sky suddenly became so dark that it was impossible to see a boat length. The sea rose to a dan gerous height. Sails were close reefed and the party prepared to ride the storm. The tide carried them out to sea and the rain poured in a torrent for over three hours. At one time it looked as if the boat would be swamped, but it rode the storm out in safety. The fishermen were many miles from Atlantic City when the storm overtook them and were obliged to spend the night at Biigantine. JUDGE CAMPBELL ACQUITTED. Charged with Assault Upon Rev. C. H. Crawford in Virginia. Richmond, Va., Aug. 4.—Amid wild excitement the jury in the Campbell case brought in a verdict acquitting Judge Campbell, of Amherst county, of the charge of assault upon Rev. C. H. Crawford. The trial was long and the arguments were characterized by the bitterness of invective on the part of the counsel for the defense. One juror stuck out for more than three hours for a verdict of common assault, but finally, at 12 o’clock, the verdict of acquittal was brought in. The adherents of Judge Campbell went wild, and after court adjourned held a mass meeting and assured him of their continued support. TRIANGULAR RACE THE TALK. Warm Fight for Congress in Second South Carolina District. Aiken. S. C., Aug. 4.—As the time draws near for the primary on Au gust 26 the all-absorbing topic in pol- litical circles is the triangular race Tor congress in the second district between Solicitor Thurmond, of Edge- field; Attorney General Bellinger, of Barnwell, and Colonel George W. Croft, of Aiken. It is generally con ceded that there will be a second race between Bellinger and Croft with the odds in Croft’s favor. World’s Cycls Record Brokne. Berlin. Aug. 4.—Robl. of Munich, beat the world’s 6-hour cycle record at Friedenau yesterday. He aver aged 37 miles an hour. Dickontmann, of Amsterdam, and Huret of Paris, were among those defeated. Robl, on June 23, won the race for the cycle championship of the world, of a dis tance of 100 kilometers (62 and 137 one-thousandths miles). His time was 1 hour, 28 minutes and seconds. The race was contested in Berlin. No Advices From Baldwin. New York, Aug. 4.—William Zelg- ler who supplied the funds for the Arc- tic expedition said to the Associated Press today that the statement that he had received advices from Baldwin was untrue. He has had no dispatches from the explorer since his reported arrival at Honningsvaag, and said he was even inclined to be skeptical of the report that Baldwin had returned. Kaiser Goes to Russia. Kiel, Aug. 4.—The Imperial yacht Hohenzollern with Emperor William on board, sailed this morning for Re val, Russia, where his majesty la go ing to pay a visit to the czar on tha occasion of the Russian naval maneu vers. Democrats Nominate Stanley. Hopkinsville, Ky., Aug. 4.—Suffi cient returns have been received from the Democratic primamry election to show that A. O. Stanley, of Henderson, Is nominated for congress in the sec ond Kentucky district by several hun dred majority. President Palma Will Be Authorized to Borrow $35,000,000 In American Gold and Issue National Thirty-Year 6 Per Cent Bonds In Six Months. New York, Aug. 4.—The first impor tant work of the Cuban congress is ap preaching a conclusion after a sitting ot a little more than two months. At Saturday night’s session oi the sen ate the way was prepared for circulat ing $35,000,000 throughout the island by substantially approving the house 5111 for the circulation of this amount. The money, it is believed, will have the effect of relieving considerably the present crisis. The Cuban con gress considers it advisable to aid the sugar planters’ pending efforts to oh tain reciprocity at the next session of the American congress. The neces sity is also recognized of paying the debts contracted by the Cuban junta of New York* in aid of the last revolu tion and to pay the liberating army. Authority has been granted^for the appointment of a commission to fix and pay the amount due the army. General Maximo Gomez probably will be chairman. President Palma will be authorized to borrow $35,000,000 in American gold and issue national 30-year 5 per cent bonds within six months. Four million dollars will be applied to the aid of the cane growers and the agri cultural and cattle industry generally. The money will be loaned at the rate of 50 cents for every 2,5<i(> pounds of sugar grown in the last crop. The money is to he repaid In February, March or April of next year, drawing 6 per cent interest. The bondholders will have the custom house receipt* as guarantee for the repayment of the $4,000,000. President Palma will ha authorized to increase the tariff du ties on certain articles accordingly. The rest of the $35,000,000 loan will be used for the payment of debts con tracted by the New York junta to sup port the revolution, amounting to about $3,000,000, also for payment of the services of the army, amounting to $23,000,000. To bring this loan within the terms of the Platt amendment and other pro visions of the Cuban constitution, the present congress. before adjourning, will provide a way to pay interest and will establish a sinking fund to re deem the principal. This probably will be done by means of a stamp tax. Any balance of the loan will be ap plied to agriculture at the discretion of congress. The foregoing has been substantial ly approved by congress, only the de tails remaining for discussion, which will begin Monday in public sessions. It is believed such a loan can be negotiated and taken care of without great difficulty. It will be Cuba’s only national debt. Business depres sion in the towns and poverty in the country are not decreasing. There have been 128 business failures in the last 12 months, against 23 the year before. STREET CARS TELESCOPED. Fifteen Passengers Were Injured, Sev. eral Seriously. Elgin, 111*., Aug. 4.—In a street car collision here two cars were telescoped and several persons seriously injured. A switch to a siding upon which stood three empty cars was left open and the car from Elgin to Dundee crashed into the standing cars, two being tele scoped. The passengers were im prisoned for nearly an hour and every one of the fifteen people on the car was injured. The most seriously hurt are: Frank Warner, motorman, leg brok en, badly cut and injured internally; may die. Frank Minard, Carpentersville, both legs broken; Injured Internally. Mrs. D. C. Hunter and two children. Mrs. M. Eberlein and daughter, bad ly cut and bruised. Blind Poet Pronounces Eulogy, New York, Aug. 4.—With no min ister present and surrounded by old friends of his family, Richard Heniy Stoddard, the venerable blind poet, stood beside the grave of his wife in Sag Harbor and pronounced the eulo gy upon her life. Several times tho aged poet broke down and wept. So feeble and so crippled by rheumatism that he could not stand alone, he was supported by two attendants at the head of the grave, while, with bowed head and trembling voice, he paid tribute to his life companion. Posse Pursuing Murderer. Catlettsburg, Ky., Aug. 4.—-The sher iff’s posse is today pursuing Sylvester Copley, Jr., who killed John White yesterday at Oakland church during services. Members of the congrega tion pursued Copley to the woods at the time, but he Is still at large. Cop ley and White had previously quar relled. Average Condition of Cotton. Washington, Aug. 4.—The average condition of cotton as shown by tho monthly cotton report issued by the agricultural department is 81.9. SOUTH BUUZE DISPEHSEB. It is a Shame and Disgrace to the State. RUINING OUR MORALS. The State Huh Taken Away the LIcetiHe from the Individual to Kngage in the Un holy Traffic Herself-Claimed to Better than Old System, but Is Worse. The State dispensary liquor traffic demands the serious consideration of every Christian in South Carolina. It is not only morally wrong, but it ex presses Satan’s best generalship. He has never been able in all his dealings with man to systematize a more com plicated, deep-rooted, self-protective, unique institution for carrying on the'workof intemperance. The fact that it was originated in moral illegit imacy, and that it was a monstrosity when it was born, evidently indicates its iniquitous character. It was im posed upon us upon the false pretext that it was a temperance institution, and that it would be conducted in the interest of the temperaoce cause. The same tactics were resorted to in bringing it into existence which were used in beguiling Eve in the garden of Eden, and by which the human race was involved in moral ruin. But es soon as the serpent master secured legal endorsement and respectability, and coiled itself around the State, in cluding church members, preachers and every body else, it began to man ifest its real character and purpose. Ah it was closely allied with all the political immorality to which itcould minister, and from which it could secure help, according to the princi ple of immoral reciprocity, it has maintained favorable legislative rec ognition, and has received such political support that it has hud the brazen effrontery to require the ex pressed endorsement of ail candidates for office throughout the State. The ‘shibboleth” that they have been re quired to pronounce is, ‘‘that the dis pensary is the best solution of the liquor problem.” The statistics of the attorney general’s office reveal the sad fact that under the dispen sary liquor traffic system during the year 11)00, the different classes of criminal violations of civil law in the State ranged from 95 per cent, to 125 per cent, increase over those of the proceeding year. The State dispensary branch houses are being pushed into every nook and corner of the state where they can be established, and drunk enness, immorality and crime are be ing increased at a fearful rate. The virus from the dispensary serpent is being injected into the moral life of the people, and there are alreadv serious symptoms of general moral blood poison. The settlement of the dispensary question involves to a great extent the moral character and destiny of those with whom it is as sociated. Every one, however, who is not blind to moral conditions and who recognizes the authority of him who says, “Woe unto him who putteth the bottle to his neighbor’s mouth,” readily admits that the dispensary liquor speculation is morally wrong and ruinous. But when we raise the question: what shall we do in order to overthrow it, we are confronted by fallacies, sophisms and irrelevant questions which are perplexing to some minds, and which tend to di vert attention from the main issue. We are toid by some that if we suc ceed in overthrowing the dispensary that we may then have intemperance among us in a worse form. The analysis of such a statement is, that we should accept any evil upon the grounds that a greater one may be possible. Suppose a slouchy, pro fane woman with her face distorted With leprous spots and scab* were to propose to a morally decent man to accept her as his bride, and tell him that he might possibly marry a worse woman, would it be reasonable for him to take her for better or worse? Certainly not. It is also said that we should ac cept the dispensary because it is bet ter than the old barroom-system. It is not better, but very much worse. But whether it is better or worse as generally seen by those who are near sighted, it is not reasonable nor right to compare adultery with forni- ficatiou and decide that one is better than the other, and that we should therefore accept it in our code of morals. The question is frequently raised in the interest of the dispensary ser pent: whether or not prohibition is practical. Whether it is practical or not does not in any way affect the vile character of the serpent which now has its coils around us, and which we must kill, or be killed. It is said that liquor drinking can not be put down, for many people will get it from some source no matter what kind of law is established. Such fallacy if accepted would lead us to repudiate the Christian faith aud surrender unconditionally to the arch fiend. It is stated that liquor is good in its place and that sometimes we really need it. We readily admit the truth of the statement, but ic is manifest that there is nothing in it to justify the existence or sins of the dispen sary. But the most deceptive and morally hnrtinl argument that the friends of the dispensary serpent ose is, that we should not mix religion with politics, or in other words, that th# Church should not oppose the dispensary and. bring itself into discredit by going beyond its legitimate hounds of work. From this battery they fire their heaviest guns and awe quite a num ber into what may.be characterized as conservative moderation and submis sion. The functions of civil govern ment are different from those of the Church, but there is no conflict be tween the two institutions by reason of their essential principles The work of the State is to enact and ad minister law in regard to the civic rights, duties, and temporal weifure of its subjects The State has a right to legislate and enforce law in regard to liquor in harmony with the princi ples specified; but it has no right to interfere with with morals, only so far as moral principles are necessarily involved by reason of man’s complex nature and general temporal welfare. But the civil government of South Carolina has forced its legislation into the department of morals—not in the attempt to do the work of the Church by morally elevating its subjects, but it has certaioly allied itself with the kingdom of moral darkness and by means of extraordinary legislation has forced upon its subjects an iniquitous institution which morally debauches them, and even proportionally dis qualifies tb«'m for the highest duties of citizenship aud for the enjoyment and success to which it should contri bute. This flagrant violation of a cardinal principle of civil government has forced us all into a statewide joint stock liquor company in order to monopolize and carry on the ruin ous traffic. It even proposes an equi table distribution of some of the mon ey to be used in educating our child ren, and thus makes a practical ap-' peal to the more depraved and thoughtless for greater popularity and respectability. The State has trespassed upon the rights and interests of the Church, and opposes it in its divinely re quired work. It has invaded the realm of individual and Church cons cience rights, and proposes to make every individual, Church and all, ac cessory to the immorality and sins of the dispensary system. The issue as it affects the church is a moral one, and all the fallacies, sophisms, aud nightmare moral ghosts which are brought up by the allies of the serpent monster can not change the facts in the case. The State has no more right to require Christian submission to the dispen sary monstrosity than it has f.o re quire its subjects to fall down and worshiu an idol god. This civil serpent is not entitled to any more mercy than if it had crawl ed here directly from the bottomless pit, and had never seen its political lawmaking friends in South Carolina. The intelligent loyalty of the church does not propose to trespass upon the civic rights of the State; nor is it pos sible for it to do so by overthrowing (he dispensary system, for the State governmental support of the dispen sary is itself illegitimate. In the battle of Chancellorsville, Va., a yellow flag was run up upon a large hotel building, which accord ing to the rules of civil warfare hin dered the confederates from firing upon it, for the tLg represented that the house was being used as a hospi tal. But when it was seen that the flag was really protecting a battery which was cutting down our brave men with its missiles of death, the order was im- mediately given to the boys in gray to open fire upon the battery, and upon the house, and in a few mo ments the building was wrapped in a sheet of flame aud the destructive battery was knocked out. If the State government would not have the Church to interfere with its proceed ings let it pull down its criminal flag and withdraw itself from the dispen sary serpent. When we say that the Church should destroy the dispensary serpent we do not merely mean that it should condemn it by preamble res olutions; nor do we mean that it should simply depend upon the vol untary unorganized individual efforts of its members, however prayerful, earnest and persistent they may be. The waging of u mere guerrilla, bush whacking warfare against its well or ganized forces would only make the serpent hiss. But the Church in its organized capacity should adopt rea sonable and practical methods. If it is morally right for one Christian to oppose it, it is evidently right for all Christians to oppose, it and us Chris tian opposition can be more successful by reason of the help of Church orga nization in securing un.ty of senti ment and action, it follows as a logi cal and necessary conclusion that the whole Church should draw upon its resources of power and demonstrate that we are ready to work in harmony with our theories, resolutions and prayers. If the Church brings itself into worldly discredit by opposing Dianna, the goddess of the Ephesians, the event would remind us of the fact, that our Lord said, “I come not to send peace on the earth, but a sword.” Prudence, conservatism and moder ation meet certain importautdemunds and should not be disconnected, but as certain as two and two make four one of the religious wants of our time is a large number of the John the Baptist and Martin Luther type of men. W. H. Kirton, Loris, 8. C. 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