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TALMAGE SERMON r By Rev. FRANK DE WITT TALMAGE. D.D. P&stor of Jefferson Par!. Fn;sby- ' teriaLn Church, Chic&.^o 1 IjOS Angeles, Cal., .l.tu. -4.—In this exposition of an "unwritten sermon.” now- Riven to Iho world as a sacred filial duty, the pro.n her shows the im- portame of action a' the criterion of a true and practical Christian life. The text is Proverbs vi. b”. "lie winketh With eyes, he speakelh with his feet, n aciieth with his lingers.” ’J'his is iho last t. a and the last scr- monic caption my father ev»‘r wrote. When 1 was summoned to Washington during his mortal illness 1 found upon his study desk a plain sheet of paper, placed there with these nineteen words upon it. just as he always wrote down his theme and text before he started his sermon. That brief memorandum proved to me that had he not been quickly summoned away by the mes senger of death the next sermon he purposed to have written would have been upon "the language of action." There were no indications of the man ner in which he intended to treat the topic, but I know that the subject had been much in his mind and that he had been impressed by the mischief that is often done by gestures and actions without the utterance of a word. I wish we could have had that sermon, for the warnings he would have uttered need to be spoken. I have therefore thought it a filial duty to fulfill, as far as I am able, the intention my father was prevented carrying out. All language is not spoken by the lip. A few months ago 1 had this truth em phasized in a striking way. I was vis iting in the east. The tirst night while there my friend came to me and said, *T want you to go and hear what l consider the finest orchestral playing in the United States.” "Oh, no,” I an swered, “I cannot go. I am fagged out from travel and work. Besides, I am going to have a hard day of preach ing tomorrow, and l must stay home and rest up for it." "But you must go,” said my friend. "1 not only want you to hear the sweetest of music, but 1 want you to sit in front of Mr. So-and- so. the leader, and watch the express- | tveness of his actions while leading Ids l orchestra. If your ear was as deaf as that of a Ludwig Beethoven, who could not hear tin* loudest note sound ed in his ‘Krcutzer Sonata’ or in his ‘Battle Symphony,’ yet you could tell what the musicians were playing by watching their leader's gestures.” I.anRiinKe of Actiou. What my friend said was true. I went to the concert that night and en joyed it as much in what I saw as in what 1 heard. The movements of that leader's hands and wrists, the gentle undulations of his baton, the quick shake of his head and tossing hair, Ihe flitting expressions upon his face, the bending of his shoulders, the nervous .movement of his feet, the quick lifting ! of both arms, told me whether the or- , chestra was softly sighing a lullaby or whispering a love song or sounding forth a battle call or playing a waltz or a wedding march or moaning a re quiem or sounding forth the defiance of the warring elements or singing the song of a harvest home or making all the voices of the woods blend in one sweet chorus. In those swift, sharp or slow movements of that impresario I could see the ever changing spirit of that musical night. This orchestral leader’s movements interpreted, in a musical sense, what every man’s "language of action” ac complishes in a moral and spiritual way. A bad man's tongue may be pal sied, but lie can still speak as do the deaf mutes in the sign language. All the evil spirits that are within him can find their outward expression before an observant world in what ho does as well as in what he says. His lifting arms speak. His moving head speaks. His sneering smile speaks. IIis scorn ful eyebrows speak. I would supple ment my text with the warning words which King Solomon wrote along the same line: "Let thine eyes look right on and let thine eyelids look straight before thee. Bonder the path of thy feet, and let nil thy ways be establish ed. Turn not to the right nor to the left. Remove thy foot from evil.” A wicked man’s evil actions are manifested, in the first place, by the conspicuous absence from all pure and noble associates. He does not count among his daily companions the good, the pure, the true. He would never feel so proud of his Christian friends as to order, by way of tribute to one of them, such an epitaph chiseled for his own tombstone as Lord Brooks had cut upon his—“Here lies Sir Philip Sidney’s friend." He would not do. as did Sir Thomas Abney, who was de lighted to welcome to his home such a guest as the gentle, « > onseerated, Christ- like brother, Isaac Watts. That Eng lish nobleman asked the great hym- nologist to visit him for a week at his ancestral manor, and then on account of Isaac Watts’ Christian gentleness he persuaded him to prolong his visit for over a quarter of a century. But as birds of a feather flock together and buzzards nest with buzzards and doves with doves, the wicked man eschews .the company of the good. He feels Just Ws uncomfortable associating with the pure, the true, the noble, as the good man feels uncomfortable when in the companionship of the bad. The morn ing cloud Is either glided by the rising sun or blackened by the scowl of the storm. A man's good or bad compan ionships Interpret the character of the inner man in the golden letters of light or in the black letters of death. A man’s true life can nearly always be judged by his surroundings. If I enter your home and find upon your parlor table a well used Bible, if I see upon the walls pure and elevating j pictures and especially in conspicuous | places such religious pictures as Rapha el’s “Sistine Madonna" and Rubens’ “Descent From the Cross” and Muril lo's “Abraham and the Angels” or Correggio’s “Penitent Magdalen;” if I see upon your library slaves among tbe well thumbed books such works as Thomas a Kempis’ “Imitation” and Farrar’s "Life of Christ” and the bi ographies of Livingstone and Brainerd and Gordon and a’set of Parker’s “Peo ple’s Bible;” if I see your music rack filled with the masterpieces of the j great religious compositions, such as Handel's "Messiah” and Wagner's | "Parsifal” and Flotow’s “Martha” and Mendelssohn's "Elijah” or “Paul;” if 1 see standing in the corners of the li brary the plaster easts of such pieces of sculpture as that of Michael Ange lo's “David” or "Moses,” I am com pelled to believe that some pure, noble I spirit lias been living in and dominat ing that home. So, by the “language of action,” when I find a man longing i to be in the bouse of God on the Sab bath day, when I see that man, week after week, sitting in a conspicuous place at the midweek prayer meeting, when I find him continually seeking the great religious gatherings which every little while take place in a large city; when I find him, daily and week- i ly and yearly, associating with men and women noted for their Christian integrity, I am compelled to believe that that man wants to be good and to live a pure life. On the other hand, when 1 see a man conspicuous for his absence from all good ntfilintions bis actions inform me as plainly as bis words could do that his character is just the opposite of what it ought to be. Character Judged by Aaaociatea. The father of a great English preach er taught this lesson to his son. Some time after ids son. then a very young man, was married his father visited him. After lie had passed through and ! examined the different rooms of the house he said: "My son, there is one mistake about your home. 1 see noth ing iu the furniture, in pictures upon , the walls or books upon the table to lead me, if I was a stranger to this home, to judge whether you belonged to God or to the devil. In every room and upon every >vall you should al ways have something to prove to your guests that you are a child of God. A . man's Christian life should be mani fested in the furniture of his house as well as by his outside surroundings.” What that Christian parent said in ref erence to a man’s domestic life is es- j sentially true in reference to his out side human affiliations. A wicked man's inner character can nearly al ways be judged by his conspicuous avoidance of noble associates. By your intimate friends your Christian life is to be judged as well as by the words that you speak. But a wicked man’s actions have a positive as well as a negative siguifi- canee. If by the absence from all good associates a man's character rests un der a dark cloud, then by his bold and reekless defiance of all the great moral influences of the day his wicked life is ! to be judged also. It is one act to sin ; in secret and to be ashamed of your sins. It is a far more heinous act to publicly parade* your sins and come to a depraved condition, in which you do not seem to care what people may say in reference to your life or how by your bold example they may be led astray through your evil conduct. Depravit)' Hidden. This indictment against the actions of an evil man's life is the more posi- j live because, even in the lowest forms of outward vice, by the “language of action” tin* wicked man nearly always wants to appear a little better than he really is. Theodore Roosevelt, who has been a student of beasts and birds and | flowers, says that this characteristic to appear better than they are is not al ways true of all the inhabitants of the natural world as it is of men. Once, l when visiting Nashville, Tenn., he heard a mocking bird, whose reputa tion for the most part rests purely upon Ids ability for mimicry, fill a whole night with sweetest music. Upon the tree just outside Ids opened window the president saw and heard him. "Sometimes,” wrote Mr. Roosevelt, “he would perch motionless for many min utes, bis body quivering and thrilling with the outpour of music. Then he would drop softly from twig to twig until the lowest limb was reached, when he would rise fluttering and leap ing through the branches, his song never ceasing for an instant, until he reached the summit of the tree and launched into the warm, scent laden air, floating in spirals with oritstretehed wings, until, as if spent, he sank gently back into the tree and down through the branches, while his song rose Into an ecstasy of ardor and passion.” That midnight song seems to have given the president a higher appreciation of the powers of the mocking bird. The song ster, warbling in the darkness and si lence of the night, showed that it had more harmony and melody In its being than its hearer had previously suppos- ed. But, unhappily, the converse Is generally true of human beings. It Is their better nature that they show un der observation. It is when they think that their friends do not see or hear them that their worst characteristics are displayed. Many a man whose life when under observation is Irreproach able shows, when the restraints of pub lic opinion are removed, a capacity for heinous and bestial sin. Tbe Wicked Worse Than They Seem. As a wicked person Is nearly always worse than he seems, I put this blunt questiou to you: ”()h, sinner, with fro wn rd lips, how dare you desecrate God’s holy Sabbath? How dare you without a blush upon your cheek, be seen entering tbe saloon or be known to pass your evenings in a disreputable haunt, where the name of Christ is sneered at and ridiculed? Ilow dare you gleefully boast of those sins about which 1 dare not speak in public? Do you not know that by your “language ! of action" you are not only destroying I yourself, but others also? Take the ad- j vice once given to Thomas Paine. Aft- j er the noted infidel had written his book. “Age of Reason,” be took the manuscript to Benjamin Franklin to ask for his criticism. After Franklin had read it lie commended its literary qualities. Then he said: "Thomas Paine, 1 would never print that book. I would throw that manuscript into the fire. If the human race is so sin ful now, how greatly magnified those sins will become if the bulwarks of Christianity are taken away. By that work you will not only destroy others, but yourself. He that spits against the wind spits in his own face.” Like Thomas Paine, by the “language of positive evil action,” a man not only destroys himself, but others. Inevi tably the world suspects that a man’s inner life is even worse than its out ward expression. Men sometimes have not the courage to commit the crimes they desire, but by their actions incite others to com mit them; but God and man hold them accountable for the acts of their agents. As Henry II. of England, goaded by tbe arrogance of Thomas a Becket. connived at his murder and was punished and humiliated as se verely as if lie had committed it with ids own hands, sA those who use other men and profit by their crimes are re sponsible for them. Like the usurper of Naboth's vineyard, he does not slay with his own hands the Jezreelite; but, like Aliab. he shuts his eyes and allows another to commit the crime he him self is too cowardly to do. "He wink- eth with his eyes” may mean “the wicked man shuts his eyes to a crime which is lieing committed in his name.” Mu n‘n IteMpuiiNibllity. "Oh,” says the candidate for ottice, "I am an honest man. I never let a dollar stick to my hands which did not honestly belong to me. I never spoke an untruth in my life.” Are you hon est, my brother? How about that $10,- 000 subscription which you made for campaign purposes? How about that other $50,000 donated by your party friends? Are all those moneys in tended for circulars and speakers and legitimate campaign expenses? If they are you are honest. If you expect to keep your lips sealed and have your lieutenants bribe thd voters at the polls you are dishonest. Your “lan guage of action” proves it. "Oh,” says the merchant, "I am an iiouest man. No customer ever heard me break my word.” Are you honest, my brother? Do you forbid your clerks to make wrong statements in reference to your goods? Do you see that your adver tising agents print within the right limit short of exaggeration? If you do you are honest. You are dishonest if you allow other lips to falsify in your name. That conspiracy makes you a falsifier too. "Oh,” says the capitalist, "1 am an honest man. 1 am not responsible for what my agent does. If he rents my house for illegit imate purposes his good name is tar nished, not mine.” Yes, my capital istic friend, you are responsible for what your agent does. The same dogs that licked .Jezebel’s blood licked Ahab’s blood. Sin of allowing others to do a crime in our name may be just as coudemuable as though we commit ted the crime with our own hands. Your "language of action” proves it. Every man is responsible to more or less extent for what others may do in his name, as was that father in refer ence to his boy who was a very im portant witness' in a New England trial. After the cross examining law yer had in vain tried to break down the lad’s testimony he at last turned and said, "Your father has been telling you how to testify, has he not?” “Yes,” answered Walter, "he has.” “Then, my boy, tell us how your father told you to testify.” “Well,” said Walter, “father said Unit the lawyers would try to tangle me, but if l would just tajee my time and be careful and tell the truth I could tell the same thing every time.” Though that father was not at the time on the witness stand, by his "language of action” the father spoke when the boy spoke. Thus, my brother, by the same law we are re sponsible for what our dependents and representatives do in our name. How Kvil 1m ICxi>om4»«1. A wicked man’s evil actions are again manifested in his unwillingness to pub licly protest against evil whenever he may see it. Silence itself can some times make a man a party to a crime, although personally he may in no way be benefited by that crime. For in stance, a few weeks ago the three not ed Chicago bandits, Van Dine and Nie- dermeier and Roeskl, fled to Indiana and lived there iu a dugouU While refugees from justice those three men one day entered a country store to purchase some food. A country school teacher saw them and recognized them by their published pictures. Had that schoolteacher not telegraphed his in telligence to the Chicago police in one s^nse he would have become a party to their crimes. So. my brother, If in pub lic you hear the name of Christ blas phemed, if you see young manhood, young womanhood, about to be degrad ed and utter no protest; if you see an Injustice about to be done another and lift no warning voice, then, by your "language of action,” you become a party to Satan's infamies. As an hon est man, speak when God bids you to speak. As an honest man, keep silent when you please, provided no one is to be injured by your far reaching silence. A wicked man’s evil actions are again manifested In his willingness to take advantage of a -helpless brother or sister through a technicality of the la**. By that 1 mean that through a technicality ho is willing to become a moral criminal, a usurer, a swindler, a destroyer, a vampire, if he can only do it and escape the “fine tooth comb” of the law. Aetionn Harely Lie. There goes an old proverb, "At times nothing is falser than figures and noth ing more unjust than exact legal jus tice.” So at times we have seen men become thieves though they could not be arraigned in the criminal court. We have seen men become liars though by the “language of action” they could not be proved perjurers before any legal tribunal. One day, about a year before Abraham Lincoln was uom inated at Chicago, a Mr. Lord entered the law ofiice of Lincoln & Herndon and heard a conversation between “Honest Abe” and one of his clients. This conversation closed in the follow ing way: “Yes, we can doubtless gain your case for you. We can set the whole neighborhood at loggerheads. We can distress a widowed mother and her six fatherless children and thereby get for you six hundred dollars, to which you seem to have a legal claim, but which rightfully belougs, it ap pears to me, as much to the woman and her children as it does to you. You must remember that some things le gally right are not morally right. We shall not take your case, hut will give you a little advice, for which we shall charge you nothing. You seem to be a sprightly, energetic man. We would advise you to try your hand in- making six hundred dollars in some other way.” I cannot express my thought that “some things are legally right and not morally right” better than by rest ing it with the blunt words of one whose “language of action” never in tentionally gave utterance to a lie. A MenNaffe of Hope. When some one asked the great Athenian orator what were the three most effective essentials for successful public speech, Demosthenes answered. “First, action; second, action; third, ac tion." So'let the lesson of the text be translated into your lives. Let your actions, public and private, be of such a character that your influence will be one that stimulates, ennobles and spir itualizes the lives of others. In secret and in the eyes of men so act and so live that your associates, your neigh bors, the community and the world will be the lie tier for your having lived. By your Christian example you may lead others to become Christians. By your gospel handshake you can win souls for Christ. By your welcoming and en couraging eye you can cheer up the oppressed and the downtrodden. By your gesturing finger you can point out the right path wherein the sinner can forsake ids sin and walk hand in hand with God. My father's life demonstrated the power of the "language of action” be cause in bis public ministry he never made close affiliations with any one man or class of men who were trying to tear down the great bulwarks of the gospel. After Cardinal Manning was dead these words, which he had spoken into the records of a phonograph, were repeated at a mass meeting gathered in London for a memorial of his life: “I hope that no word' of mine, written or spoken In my life, will be found to have done harm to my fellow men when 1 am dead.” If my father was to come back to life, we would find that this sentiment was his hope while he was upon this earth, and this senti ment is now his hope while ho is in 1 heaven. He always tried to preach a safe and a cleansing gospel. His "lan guage of action" was right upon the temperance question, right upon the Sabbath question, right upon God's word, right upon the Fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. He not only preached God with the lip. but he also lived God in Ids daily life. My brother, my sister, always let ! your influence be cast upon the safe side of every debatable moral question. Let your "language of action” always in Christ’s name be a message for hope and never a guide leading toward eternal death. [Copyright. 1904, by Louis Klopsch.] ’Gets At The Joints From TIIe Inside. BEGINS WORK with the first dose, cleansing the blood of all the poisonous acids that produce RHEUMATISM, driving out all the dangerous germs that infest the body—that is the way cures are effected by Other medicines treat symptoms; Rhtumacide removts tht cause, and, therefore, its CURES ARE PERMANENT. Helps the digestion, tones up the system. Sample bottle free on application to Bobbitt Chemical Co., Pro prietors, 316 West Lombard St., Baltimore, Md. HEALTH M I don't think we could keep bonne without Thedford’e Black- Draught. We hare ueed It in the family for over two yean with the beet of results. I have not had a doctor in the honae for that length of time. It is a doctor in itself and always ready to make a person well and happy.”—JAMES HALL, Jack* sonville, 111. Because this great medicine relieves stomach pains, frees the constipated bowels and invigor ates the torpid liver and weak ened kidneys No Doctor is necessary in the home wher • Thedford’s Black-Draught is kept. Families living in the country, miles from any physi cian, have been kept in health for years with this medicine as their only doctor. Thedford’s Black - Draught cures bilious ness, dyspepsia, colds, chills and fever, bad blood, headaches, diarrhoea, constipation, colic and almost every other ailment because the stomach, bowels liver and kidneys so nearly con trol the health. Century Old Puum. One hundred years ago “culture” had not decreed that the pun should be re gardod as evidence that the maker thereof was shallow pated. The Lon don Times, not then the solemn and dignified Journal it now is, but as frisky and flippant as some of the American papers of today, frequently indulged in puns. From the issue of Nov. 5, 1803, the following paragraphs are taken, and there are many more of the same class: “Signora Grass-ini is arrived in Eng land. No doubt she will contrive to make her operatic hay while the sun shines.” "Lady Clare has left off her weeds and is no longer clair—obscure.” "The Corsican visit to the Dutch provinces is certainly suspended. He is said to be very suspicious of the in habitants. In Friezland, at least, he would be sure of a very cold reception.” "Two young men lately amusing themselves in an afternoon’s rural ex cursion by making epigrams were apt ly enough styled field martials.” THEDFORD’3 BUCK- DRAUGHT Sour Stomach No appetite, loss of strength, __ . aess, headache, constipation, bad breath, general debility, sour risings, and catarrh of the stomach are all due to indigestion. Kodol cures indigestion. This new discovery repre sents the natural Juices of digestion as they exist In a healthy stomach, combined with the greatest known tonic and reconstructive properties. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure does not 'nly cure Indigestion and dyspepsia, but this Amo us remedy cures all stomach troubles by cleansing, purifying, sweetening and itrengthening the mucous membranes lining the stomach. , Mr. S. S. Ball, of Ravenswood. W. Va., wya:— I was troubled with sour stomach for twenty years. Nodol cured me and we are now uslnc tt to mlh 'or baby.” Kodol Digests What You Eat. Bottles only. $1.00 Size holding 2M times the trial size, which sells for 60 cents. Prepared Oy r O. DeWITT * CO., OHlOAOO For sale by Chetokee Drug Company. Final Discharge. Notice is hereby given that I will apply to Hon. J. K. Webster, Probate Judge for Cherokee county, S. C., at his office at the court house, Monday. January 25th, next at it o’clock a. in., for a final settlement and discharge as guardian of the estate of Annie W. Humphries, nee Brown, minor, but now of age. W. C. Carpenter, Guardian for Annie W. Humphries, nee Brown. Dec. 28th, 1903. Published in Gaffney (S. C.) Ledger Jan. 1st, 8th, 15th and 22d, 1904. Tax Returns for 1904. LA GRIPPE I Pneumonia follows La Qrlppe but never follows the use of FOLEY’S JlTaH It stops the Cough and heals the lunge. Prevents Pneumonia and Consnmptlon. Mb. G. Vachbb, of 157 Osgood St., Chicago, Writes: “My wife had la grippe and it left her with a yary bad cough on her langa which VoLn'e Hobbt and Tab cared completely." Goldwln Smith Today. A familiar figure in Toronto Is Gold- wiu Smith. Every fine day he takes ins carriage drive, and one sees a shrunken old man, as thin as he is tall, silent and grave of demeanor, preoc cupied, it would seem, with his own thoughts. “One might make the mis take of supposing,” said an observer, “that the aged citizen—he has celebrat ed his eightieth birthday—was a dys peptic pessimist, that life had lost !t» charm for him and that time had for gotten him in Its merciless march to ward a future that Is never overtaken. Such is one picture of the old professor - a mental snapshot taken from u curb- s.oue.” The Up-to-Date Market has plenty of fine Beef, Pork, mixed Beef and Pork Sausage, and all Pork Sausage; also Apples, Cabbage, Po tatoes, Beans, etc., and Canned Goods of all varieties. Try some of my Canned Huckleberries and Black berries. Peaches for pies. Some thing good to eat all the time. Goods delivered promptly and on time. Come, or call Phone No. 60. Thanking the public for the past seven years’ patronage and hoping to serve you seven years more, Yours respectfully, L. W. McGUINN. The Busy Corner. Office of County Auditor, ^ Cherokee County. j Notice is hereby given that this office will be open from January ist, 1904, to February 20th, 1904, for the purpose of receiving returns of property for taxa tion. I will be at the following places at the times hereinafter mentioned for receiving returns: At Draytouville, Monday, Jan. nth. At Wilkinsville, Tuesday, Jan. 12th. At Sarratt’s Store, Wednesday, Jan. 13th. At Asbury, Thursday, Jan. 14th. At Ravenna, (Brown's Store), Friday, Jan. 15th. At Webster, (M. M. Tate’s), Saturday, Jan. 16th. At Thickety, (Smith’s Store), Monday, Jan.18th. At White Plains, (M. C. Lipscomb’s), Tuesday, Jan. 19th. At Macedonia, (School House), Wed nesday; Jan. 20th. At Butler, Thursday, Jan. 21st. At Ezell, Friday, Jan. 22d. At Maud, (Linder’s Store), Saturday, Jan. 23d. At Cherokee Falls, Monday, Jan. 25th. At Kings Creek, Tuesday, Jan. 26th. At Antioch, (Church),Wednesday, Jan. 27th. At Blacksburg, Thursday and Friday, Jan. 28th and 29th. At Buffalo, (School House), Saturday, Jan. 30th. At Allens, Monday, Feb. ist. At Grassy Pond, Tuesday, F’eb. 2nd. During my absence at the above places the office will be kept open by G. W. Speer. The books will close on Febru ary 20th and if anyone fails to make re turn by this date the law requires me to add a penalty of 50 per cent, to the re turn of 1903. All persons are required to state iu what school district they live. If they don’t know the district then they will be required to give the names of their school trustees. All persons having property in Districts Nos. 9 and to will state how much and make separate returns therefor. All persons are required to make out and return a statement of all personal f noperty, money, credits, investments in >onds, joint stock companies, notes, mortgages, etc., in your possession or under your control as husband, guardian, agent, attorney, executor, or administra tor on the first day of January, 1904, and fix a value thereto. Anyone who has sold or bought real estate since they made their last retnrn must make return of same, stating who to and how much, and if they bought, how much and who from. All buildings erected during the year must be returued and the value. All returns made before anyone except me must be sworn to. All persons liable to the income tax are required to make return of same. POLL TAX.—All persons between the ages of 21 and 60 years, except those in capable of making a living, are liable for poll tax. Confederate soldiers are empi at 50 years. W. 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