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first person whom Christ hnnoml afte;* ii was the sinful L>ut the th<* ivsurm repentant whom he h ary. ored Th r an Talma, Wiil 2> . 1>. 11 j Cal.. is A|)ril 3.—In this story receives a ettiiic. vvhich «p simple and the I.uke \xiv, 31. opened, and they vanished out of Los AmieU |''rn ■ : lew f»eals < to learned. The le\i ’•And t'leir eyes wci knew and their si^ht." Familiar truths become impressive kvhon preseated in an unfamiliar way. It is therefore necessary for tlie preacher to find a new setting for the fospel camera. “Whenever I wish some lesson to ; e clearly remembered. would wing it." once said Thomas Butbrie, the great Edinburgh pulpiteer. [“By gratifying the legitimate play of he imagination salient truth finds its itray more readily to the heart and lakes a deeper impression on the lemory. The suggestive illustration, Ike a liont. keops it fr<<in sinking: like nail, fastens it in the mind; like the feathers of an arrow, mak< s it strike, land. Uke the bark, makes it stick." “Windows For Sermons" is the pointed iption of a book of sermonie illustra* in. Yes; we all need new windows Is well as clear windows through [which we ci rn the great lesson* [Of gospel truth. This is Easter day. The lessons with 'which the anniversary is fraught are it the very foundation of our faith. [They are so momentous that the im agination is overwhelmed by their im- port. The facts are few, but how vital, jhow significant they are! Let us try to look at them from a different stand point from that to which we arc accus tomed. Transporting ourselves in though, to the city of Jerusalem on that eventful day we bear rumors about the slttii g of the sanhedrim at Which the bumble Nazarene was con demned. but we pay no attention to them. 1 listen not to i1j<* excited re- ports^ :ng everywhere that the high prit^t and his hirelings aim the oiti- rs of the law, led by the Apostate Judas, had captured Christ in the gar den of Cetbsemane. I mingle not with the multitudes that are crowding the courtroom, in which 1’ilate is the judge and Jesus the prisoner. I gaze not at the awful scene when Christ hung upon the cross and his dying lips Jiart- ed in their last agony, i go not with Mary down among the lilies to the tomb on the lirst Easter morn. But when the sunglow of Easter afternoon has bathed the .Jud.oan hills in great waves of light 1 would point you to a couple of pedestrians wending their way from the Jerusalem capital to ward the little village of Emmaus. As these two ordinarily dressed men walk on 1 see them accosted by a third trav eler, who appeared over the hills. And now, as these three come nigh to the village. I would see them enter a hum ble home. Then, while they are at supper, I would show you why the stranger revealed himself to these two disciples as the risen Christ. K<iHt«‘r*N Itevelulion. Easter afternoon's revelation, in the first place, comes as a welcome en couragement to all those who are ear nestly audprayerfully trying to increase their faith by reaching out for more light. It comes as a divine demonstra tion that the prayer of a broken heart ed father once made to Christ. “Lord, I believe: help thou mine unbelief,” is one of the most beautiful and yet hum ble prayers of earnest beseechinent. It is a holy inspiration that though we sometimes in spiritual life have to /walk as a blind man feels his way along, step by step, yet if we go on trustfully and prayerfully and hope fully Christ, after awhile, will reveal himself to us in all his glory. Why do I entertain this hope? 1 find ground for it in the fact that one of the earliest appearances of Christ on ttds first Easter day was to the two men who had doubted the fact of his resurrection, t'hrist, when upon earth, dealt with men as we deal in our loves with our kith and kin. Supposing that I was a young man and had gone off to a four years’ war. Supposing after a long series of adventures I should come back to my native town. Who would be the first person I should want to see? Would I wish to go and call first upon my school friends or ipon a merchant in whose store I us«*d to work as a clerk? Would 1 care first to see my old s<>eiety friends and the boys with whom I used to play base ball in the village lots? Oh, no! If I wasA young man the person whom I woiua honor first with a visit would be my mother and then my father and my sisters. If I was a married man the first person I would honor after my return home would he my wife and then my children. When the tele gram was banded to Abraham Lincoln notifying him of his nomination for the presidency by the Republican na tion convention assembled In Chicago the first move Abraham Lincoln made was to put on his tail hat and say: Well, boys, there Is a little woman up the street who would like to hear this ews. I guess I will go and tell her what has happened." Seek the Divine l.lght. After important absence we always seek first those whom we would honor the most Whom did Christ first seek after his resurrection? Was It the gen tle John, or the brave Luke, or Mary, the widowed mother, or Mn’thew. who sat at the sent of ecs'.om, <»r James, or the steadfast Lazirus? Ob. no. The next persons his (iiviiie pres- " day were the .immaus road. . . These two |idhxion. They had heard the wonderful report of Mary from the uj . b. They knew the tomb had l»i n <. . it:eu of Christs body, but thev ■ ,,d not understand how the iiiii.ie'e could have taken place. Christ appeared straightway unto them. Oh. ye honest doubters, do ii"t despair. Hold fast to your belief, though it lie sun. 11. Head. Fray. Keep on s'eking for more divine Ugh., and Cl,: st will some day reveal himself to you all as he once revealed himself to his two troubled disciples on that Eas ter afternoon in the Emmaus village. I have always been very thankful that Christ made this revelation on Easter day to the two honest doubters ,it the Emmaus village. Ah. my friends, the honest doubter ought to have our sympathy instead of our exe cration. Some people by natural men tal construction always must have a fact proved to them before they are willing to believe. They do not realize that “faith is the evidence of things not seen.” They always demand the evidence. The brother of Mark Hop kins was for years an agnostic merely because he could not find a logical proof for Christianity. Finally Mark Hopkins planned a consecutive line of arguments to prove to his younger brother that tlmre was logical ground for g Jesus Christ as the Sav iour vorld. When he had proved it Frofessor Hopkins Joined ha mis with Fresident Mark Hopkins in his gospel faith and said. “Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.” It was as a result of trying to convert his brother to Christianity through consecrated logic that Marl: Hopkins prepared his noted I took called the “Evidences of Christianity.” < ’ertain minds naturally demand sight of the golden links which bind together the great laws of cause and effect. A friend one summer evening turned to John Tyndall, the famous Brit! h phys icist. and said, “Tyndall, can you be hold such a sublime Alpine sunset as this and not feel that there is a (lod?” “Ob,” he answered, “I feel it. I feel it as much as any man c:fn feel it. and I rejoice in it, but the trouble is I can not prove it." Ah, yes, there are many doubters who t honestly about the resurrection of Jesus Christ. There are scores of men who cannot explain how all these things happened. But, my friends, on this Easter day, if you will only reach out for more light, as did the two honest doubters of the Emmaus road, Christ will ultimately reveal himself. But, ye honest doubt ers, mark this; There are two ways to doubt. The wrong way is to let your doubts, as did Tyndall, obscure the di vine revelation, which you may have for the asking. The honest way to doubt is to hold firmly to the divine revelations you have, with your mind open to receive newer and fuller reve lation. which will surely come to you and in the end banish ail your doubts. If you are an honest doubter stand this day by the emptied tomb of a risen Christ and say, “Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.” An Kuater ThouKht. Easter afternoon's revelation, in the next place, came to these two doubters when on their way to their own homes. Who were these two men? We don’t know. But when reading carefully the Scripture lines we are led to sup pose that they were among the inhab itants of this little village of Em maus, which was about sixty stadia, or seven and one-half miles, distant from the Jerusalem capital. In other words, these two disciples of Jesus Christ were villagers. When they heard that their Lord and Saviour was to be tried for his life they immediately went down to the capital to see if they could help him. There they stayed through the awful scenes of the cruci fixion. But when the crucifixion was over, and their tears of sympathy had mingled with those of Mpry, the moth er, and the strange reports of Mary Magdalene had been reported to them, they had to return to their home du ties. And while they were going back home to look after the farm stock and take care <>f the crops Christ appeared unto them on the Emmaus road. It is a beautiful Easter thought that Christ will reveal himself to us in his sanctuary. It is a beautiful Easier thought that he will reveal himself to us in a pulpit embanked and embow ered by white lilies and in an Easter eiioir loft where is being sung Dudley Buck’s “Christ the Lord Is Risen’’ or Stainer's “Crucifixion.” But I glory today over the fact that Christ can and will reveal himself to us on Easter afternoon on the Emmaus road. He can and will reveal himself to us while we are cooking the Easter dinner, or while we are dressing the children for the Easter afternoon Sunday school, or when in the evening hour, with the children gathered about the piano, we are singing the Easter songs. The other day, when calling at the home of a very dear friend, I saw this beauti ful sentiment written upon the wall over the sideboard of the dining room: “Christ is the head of this house, the unseen gu*-st at every meal, the silent listener to every conversation.” Y'es, yes; that written sentiment Is true. Christ on Easier noon and Easter aft- ernoon and Easter evening and Easter night is ready to enter the humble home of the Emmaus disciples as he is also ready to stand on Easter morn ing amid the decorated pulpits of the imposing cathedrals and of the city churches and of the little village meet ing houses. Mysteries Solved. Easter afternoon’s revelation came, In the next place, us a solution of pro- phetlc mysteries. The two disciples must have known the Scriptures, but they had not understood the prophecies concerning Christ, and not until he ex plained them did they perceive that the events which had so puzzled and distressed them were precisely those which had been predicted centuries be fore. It came as a right visual per spective to those whose eyes were fo- cused too far off to properly appreciate the eternal signili ance of the momen tous events v. hic!i had just happened. Wht t had the crucifixion of loader, Jesus, tc prophecy of Is; of years before is brought as a imply tin* o«. CUIT al tragedy as t haps then* men si *-i’ or ta.ii 1 k. 1 Ma;;-nr. “D <tr will r: i-e i; Up. ruction <<f ( brisl tl:< -<* disi ’ ’••s ( sidcr or tlr 1 :k. mans in.id Lin* > Said UiiiO it .cm. heart to ' ! Lei t* have speditn 1.” Ul Moses and all th and the horrible !.. ir dear friend and > with the Messianic Ah, written hundreds ? Did the words “He lamb to the slaughter" < .ce of such a nation- h; t just ended? Fer- did not stop to con- 1 the words of their y this temple, and I " allude to the resur- - own body? Perhaps did not know or con- Kut when on the Em- •<) fools and slow of ; 11 that the prophets id then, beginning “at the prophets, he ex pounded unto them in all the Scrip- tores the tilings concerning himself,” then they saw, then they knew, that It had been foreseen that Jesus should rise from the dead. l-'ullill ment of I’roplieclen. Have there not been in our own lives and in the lives of our dear ones proph ecies which on this Easter afternoon find their fulfillment in the risen Christ? How about that fulfilled prophecy in your mother’s life? Years ago she marked the favorite psalm of Martin Luther as her special comfort. In the quiet of her own room she used to read over and over again these words: "(Jod is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. There fore will not we fear, though the earth be removed and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea.” When your father was taken sick and financial trouble came, and from an earthly standpoint your mother had nowhere to turn, did not that Forty- sixth Fsnlm come true? Was not the gospel prophecy fulfilled in God being her refuge and strength? When your invalid sister died, \\%at was the strange peace thtit remained with her on her way to the grave? Did she want to leave her young husband and baby boy? Did she turn a deaf ear to the solis that were being sounded about her dying bed? Oh. no! She was as a Christian at peace because thousands of years ago God had prom ised, “The mountains shall depart and the hills be removed, but my loving kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenants of my peace be removed, saith the Lord that hath mercy on thee." How have God’s promises been fulfilled in your own life? Have not all your past troubles been the means, through the influence of the Holy Spirit, of working together for your good? Christ was the fulfill ment of prophecy in the Emmaus reve lation. Christ is also the fulfillment of prophecy in our own lives. De«|ialr ( lianict-tl to Hope. But again I learn from these Easter afternoon lessons that Christ only ap peared unto his disciples when they felt their own helplessness without his divine presence and sustenance. If these men, walking along that Em maus road, had said to themselves, “Well, Jesus is dead; perhaps it is just as well that he is gone; we wer. fol lowing him too much anyhow; we can get along now perhaps better with out him than with him," Jesus would never have revealed himself unto them. But what did these two men practically say? They said: “Oh, what shall we do, what shall we do? The 1 Christ upon whom we have leaned, the Christ whom we have followed, the Christ whose words have been our meat and strength by day and by night, is gone. What shall we do? What s’lall we do?" Let me read to you their very words. When this stranger ac costed the two disciples they told to him their story. Then in a despairing tone they said, “We trusted that it had been he who should have re deemed Israel." Yes; “we trusted,” but now all their hope was gone. They were hopeless without Christ. But when Christ revealed himself then their despair was changed into trium phant hope. My friend, on this hillside overlook ing the little Emmaus village do you feel helpless uiiie.ss you have Christ? Do you pin to him all your faith botli for this world and the next? If you do Christ will reveal himself to you. If you do not he will never reveal him- self. In your Easter hopes I want you to feel the absolute dependence upon the divine power which my pious an cestor did many years ago. Rev. Na than Birdseye was among the most fa mous New England divines of his day. He lived In Connecticut and was not only very wealthy, but lived also In the time when the people of New Eng land owned slaves, and h<| alro owned them. There came during his lifetime a prolonged drought in' that country which threatened not only to destroy the crops, but also the cattle and the men and women of that region. Old Nathan Birdseye one day gathered his mu for help. Spades were brought, and there, at his very doorstep, was dug a well which gave precious life saving drink to his family‘and the peo ple of the surrounding hills. Thus, my dear grandson. 1 write this that you may know that our family at that time was sav*Hl by faith and by believing prayer.” oh. my friends, Christ is a refuge in every ago. As the two dis ciples listened to him and found com fort In their day. ns my sainted an cestor turned to him in his trial and was delivered, so may ve in every emergency of our lives find help and peace in looking to him and praying to him. Will you not feel, as did the two disciples on the Emmaus road, that without Christ you can do nothing and that with Christ you can do every thing? But I cannot close without a practi cal application to our future work in our relationship with our fellow men and fellow Cl ristian disciples. When Jesus revealed himself to his disciples in the little Emmaus village, what did they do? Did they rejoice? Yes; they rejoiced ns gladly as did the old father in the parable of the prodigal sMi. who cried out in ecstasy, “It was meet that we should make merry and be glad, for this thy brother was dead and is alive again and was lost and is found!” Hut these two disciples did more than merely stay at home Easter evening and rejoice with each other. Their happiness over the Em maus revelation was too great to be housed within four walls. They imme diately started back to Jerusalem. I X St- Wi First sign of RHEUMATISM. Dangerous to let It run. Easy to cure now. A single bottle of nmmm Will probably do the work. Bad eiaei require mo:e. RHFt'MACIDE curea by grttin* rid of the cauie. io that no trace ' t the d:»c a«e lingeri in the fyttem. It purifiei the blood, relieve* the ind inaticn of the kid ney*. the chronic comtipation and the catarih that follow* uch a condi tion of the ay«tem. Though Mr*. Mary E. Welborn, of High Point. N. C . i* V) year* old and had jufiered from rheumatism for 20 > ars. *he ua* cr.mp.etely cured by RHEUM ACIOE. and declare* »he feel* ’'year* younger ' and i* anxiout for "all who are tuffering from any of the form* of this dread disease” to try RHEUMAC1DE *nd be cured. REV. J. R. WHEELER, a noted Methodist minister, of Reisterstown, Md., write* enthusiastically cf RhEUMAC IDE. which cured him. He ia 75 yeara old and has been in the ministry 50 years. SAMPLE BOTTLE FREE FROM BOBBITT CHEMICAL CO., PROPRIETORS. BALTIMORE, MO. "GETS AT THE JOINTS FROM THE INSIDE.'* They said to t ach other: “Come, come, coi.-IS! Let us go and tell the apostles and the other disciples that we have seen the risen Christ. Come, come, : come! Let us have them rejoice with us as we rejoice, as we have wept with them when they wept.” We can now see them running back to the Je rusalem capital on Easter night, and Easter darkness was not made an ex cuse for laggard feet. They ran. Aye, they ran as fast as their limbs could carry them to tell of the risen Christ. The ClorioDR New*-. We are all ready to carry good news to our fellow men. After Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo a messenger start ed for the Russian capital to tell the czar that his national enemy was over thrown. On and on he went. While the horses were being saddled at the different taverns he would sleep; then into ids saddle and on. When he rush ed into the Petersburg palace tbs czar was tit dinner. But. undaunted, he car ried the good news into the royal ban quet hall, anu then, after telling the news, he dropped at the feet of the czar and fell into a slumber from which no one could rouse him. If a czar’s soldier would be so anxious to tell his chief of tin earthly victory shall we not be anxious, like the Emmaus disciples, to tell all the world of a heavenly victory? From this church embowered with flowers, where we have seen the risen Christ in vision and heard him in song and sermon, shall ve not carry the news every where? The news! Aye, tell the glo rious news ta .t Jesus has risen from first fruits of fact -that 1 thoughts in FOR BILIOUSNESS The liver roust be gently stirred 00 that the bile win be thrown off in the right channel; the system at the same time should be invigorated by a tonic that Nature may begin her work and complete the cure, ”* LIVER PILLS RAMoh'5 andTONIC PELLETS Form the modem mild power cure that compieteFy does the work, without shock or injury to any part of the system. Booklets and samples free of any dealer, or complete treatment, Twenty-five Doses, 2I>C. BROWN MFC. CO. NtW YORK AND OREENEVILLE. TENN. ‘For sale by Cherokee Drug Company. u t t 1 ecc:!: .Vlt. is iiik* other •ss v in vou.r E. ;. -i [‘ H; “•moon reveh’tion. As as • ; ir ; <! reve.ile i himself unto wo c. !c> he v anished out of gp ; ; , it we do not :;t once re- (’!::• • t \7 hen he i • ■y“uls himself. 1 p-d K V . ; m 11 lity we slndl never re- him kMt J till. One moment he is the t he is >nj forever. • of 1 i 1 our p .’.st lives know 1 we .17. h.iii. We know .inn ■ :i Ca ‘i iii ..it , Ln 1.1 /a il Cv sen i< ’t* \ . L.v it i. said. " Hi* I, ::J if wo ::t th.: t i. 1: •* : cel-r-: 1 !n A PLEASING ARRAY Let us handle your grocery order. Let us tell you how cheaply we can furnish you with the necessaries and luxuries of life. Our stock is large and fresh, and consists of Heavy, Staple and Fancy Groceries, Candies, Canned Goods, Cigars, Tobacco, <fcc., all of the very best brands and sold at a slight margin above cost. Three Good Reasons ceive here. Some when there tain ami not our Lor i ’.ve • . < 'r.'*'. <v hr ■ • re ceived him. < i .er, «'*vl women, are you this Ear ter dry in the Emmaus vill.-ve? Are you stamUne in the little village seven ami one-huif miles from Jerusalem and having a divine revela tion and yet will not accept the risen Christ? God forbid that my Saviour’s scarred hands and scarred feet and scarred brow and scarred side should in this Eiister afternoon's revelation appeal to you in vain! [Copyright, 1904, by Louis Klopsch.] why you should trade with us : You'll like the goods we sell. You’ll like the way we treat you You’ll like the price we ask. Let us show you that we mean business. & S. LITTLEJOHN, I. W. Richardson’s Old Stand. A Singular Word. Our language contains a word ending with “S” that denotes anxiety, worry, etc., add to this word another “S” and it will denote affection, Joy, etc. Find this word in the paragraph below. “Cares” bring anxiety and worry, these bring derangement of the di gestive organs, usually resulting in indigestion. Rydale’ s Stomach Tab lets cure indigestion. It matters not whether your stomach Double is caused by worry, over work, neglect, malaria or any other cause, Rydale’s Stomach Tablets will cure you. They insure perfect digestion and assimi lation. They tone and strengthen the digestive organs, restoring them to health. Use them and good health will bless y >u and fortune "Caress” you. Gaffney Drug Co. _ Want of care does us more damage than want of knowledge. Foley’s Honey and Tar contains no family find servants together and made opiates, and will not constipate like this simple yet earnest prayer: “O God, thou knowest that without thee we can <lo nothing. Save me ami my family and people. Save my cattle and my crops. Save us, O God, save us! Thou who didst rescue the children of Israel In the wilderness, rescue us now!” The Risen Christ. “Then,” so goes the letter written by this good man’s granddaughter to her grandson, “my grandfather stepped out of his home and *tood as an old man leaning upon his staff. With bis eane he gently pushed the earth at his fe* t. As he pm-hod it he saw the soil vr iw darker. Falling to his knees, the old man began to dig the ground with Itis bare fiOgeiT. at the same time call- nearly all other cough medicines. Re fuse substitutes. Sold by Cheroke Drug Co. Good Time. The times are good and the liest people have the best TIMEPIECE. For All The News of Cherokee county read the only up-to-date paper published in the county. The Ledger has the largest paid-in-ad vance subscrip tion of any semi-weekly newspaper in the State. Only $1.00 a year, strictly in advance. :: :: :: L Westrope Keeps All the best makes of Watches. Call on him when you want a good watch, or when your old one needs repairing. Thos. H. Westrope. Nice line of Jewelry always on hand.