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/ ii $J e r _ a^e ;i o a Li y 'Ji. e -O. Fr rin T* e ill Tain age, '/3.2J. Los ..li^cles, Cal., April 10. In tins sermon the preacher shows that in t sickness, as well as in health, Cod re quires our co-operation and the ej.- i erci.se of our faith, and that the divine blessing follows this union of faith and works. The teat is Cenesis xxx. oh, "And the docks urou^ht lorth cat tle*, finest raked, speckhd and sjioUed.” Laban, ihoujjh a man of wealth and induencc a. iou^ the Hebrews of his day. was yet, like many rich men in our time, mean and unprincipled where a hart; iu was involved. In his com pact with Jacob the weak points of his character were strikingly revealed, lie bad two daughters. "Leah was tender eyed, but Kachel was very be - tiful;" i i other words, the elder sister was hotneiy ,.ud unattraetive. !she Wits a maiden lady whom no one cared to marry; her eyes were inflamed, or watery, or "cast;” her disposition was evident'y : much askew its her eyes. Jacob Wits deeply in love with the k younger sister, but titter la* bad served A seven Ion,-, .wars for her old Laban ■ cheated him out of his promised bride land palmed off upon the young man the unattractive elder sister. Then, in order to win tla* younger sister. Jacob had to serve seven more long years, and as a result he had two wives Instead of one. i’ovrcr of the Mi ml. At the ett.i of bis fourteen years of service Jacob prepared to leave his fa- ther-in-iaw's employ. He wanted to take his two wives and go off a’nd build it home of his own somewhere. This, however, Laban did not wish him to do. So the crafty Laban made a con tract with Jacob that if he would stay and continue in charge oL^iis herds of cattle and Docks of slat*]) be, Laban, would give to the young man as pay ment for his set vices all the calves and the lam' s #u>! the kids that were born rings!raked or speckled or spotted. .Web agreed to the bargain. Hut when he agreed the young man was craftier than the old man. As the fa ther-in law had been nuprincipled with Jacob, so Jacob was unprincipled now with Laban. What did Jacob do? Did he allow nature to simply take its usual course? So. He began to scheme and to cunningly influence the colors of the calves, the kids and the lambs about to be born. He took some rods of green poplar and hazel and chestnut and laid those rods of white and black in the watering troughs of the herds and^he books. Then, when the cows and the sheep and the goats came to drink out of the watering troughs the black and white rods reflected in the water made such a startling impres sion upon them that the chives, kids and lambs horn thereafter were influ enced by that prenatal shock, and most of them were ringstraked and spotted and speckled. Thus Jacob’s herds grew larger than Lit ha it’s, and the craft of the unscrupulous son-in-law overreached the dishonesty of the fa- ther-iu-law. After Jacob placed the rods of green poplar and hazel and chestnut iu the watering troughs the startling and far reaching effect produced upon the ani mals is not to he wontiered at. If you place a stick in the water, by the laws of reflection that wood may seem to become a creature of life. I remem ber when a lad once dropping my fish ing pole, and its it lay at the bottom of the brook tin* ripples made that rod look like it long serpent wriggling up stream. As these cattle stoop to drink 1 see them start back as though u ven omous hissing snake was lifting up his fatal fangs to strike. My text pre sents one of tin* best instances to he found in literature of the far reaching effect of tin* mind over the physical body. Meulul lialluciiiatlonH. We may grunt today the Influence of the mind over the body, hut we do not go so far as to assert that all phys ical diseases or abnormalities are the direct results of mental hallucinations as the straked, spotted and speckled progeny of the cows, sheep and goats were the result of Jacob’s wicked act. We do not advocate the theory that a surgeon's knife is only another name for a butcher’s ax, that a modern hos pital is only a Satanic Incubator, that a medicine bottle is only fools' poison and that sickness Is only a synonym for sin; but. as there are thousands and tens of thousands of men and wo men who honestly believe iu "faith ^ure,” pure and simple, as we term ^^nt definition, 1 have chosen in this sermon to preach on Jesus Christ as the Divine Healer and to show both from a iilblical and u common sense standpoint that the surgeon’s knife and the physician’s prescription have a part in the world’s Christianization und civilization us well us the minis ter’s pulpit and the consecrated school teacher’s desk. The Bible teaches us that faith should always go hand In hand with works The same divine laws which apply to men In ordinary walks of life apply also to the patient In the In valid’s room or upon the hospital op erating table. The Christ who stands by the sick bed is the same Christ who acetHnpauies us when, In health und strength, we go forth to fight the great battle of life. Christ wants no drones in the busy human beehives of the world's struggle for dally bread. He wants no drones In the world’s strug gle for physical health. That struggle ought to be Just as commendable in man’s sight us is the struggle for dally bread. In the flmtl extremity, when all human effort i*> exhausted, we ut; .v intil that po ut oth work and , and bravely, he tin* divine look to Cod alone; bu is reached we inn.-d pray; work ceasdo und Ini;m•fully, , . . hies sing on or.r labor Workm aiiii But, though the u . i Bihl • aches w..:. twin .■ -tors, should .-o in search of tla watt health, yet fabh etui, eyes and slop tneir ear llcstl teachings. They one* little passage of l'a it li. iu - trend of the and faith, as j Laud, in hand <*t s of physical i, ts blind their s to these B.b get a hold on Scripture and separate it from all its surrounding count etions. As a sweet morsel they turn it over and over and over again. They magnify it. They distort it, and then they rest their entire belief upon it. These people may he good at heart, hut il y treat Scripture somewhat as a famous reformer did iu the noted meeting lie had with John Calvin in A'.mi it, 1 believe, in about the year loin. After in* had valiantly helped to fight the li- '.tie of tie* reformation to a glorious and a successful issue he still clung tenaciously to the doc trine of transubstantiation. That doc trine, in plain language, means that when we drink of tin* communion wine and cat of the communion bread we literally are drinking of Christ's blood and c iting of Christ’s body. The other school of theo;•>;:!cal thought held that wiicn we assemble at the communion table we only < at of Christ’s body and drink of Christ's blood in symbol. We eat anil drink in symbol, its the lamb’s blood slu*d upon tin* Jewish altar was the symbol of Christ's blood about to he sited for us. 'This battle over tran- subst-’ntiation raged bitterly for years between the two schools of religious thought. Iu order to bring this theological con flict to a close tiie* two schools per suaded the two leaders. John Calvin and this mighty man, to meet and dis- »"ms tin* theological questions at issue. What did this famous reformer do at that ei life:eueeY History tells us that he* brought along a tablecloth, upon which were embroidered those six Words, taken from the twenty-sixth chapter of Matthew: “Take, cat; this is my body." Then lie placed that cloth over a table and simply rested his hand upon it and said nothing. No matter what arguments were brought forw id. he answered noth ing. A’.l that he did was to point to tin* one sentence written upon the ta ble, “Take, eat; this is my body.” "But,” said Joint Calvin, “Christ also said, T am the vine, ye are the branches.’ Are you going to take that sentence literally? Does that sentence imply that Jesus is a stick?” But the reformer would answer nothing. All that he did was to point to the one sentence upon the table, which read, “Take, eat; this is iny body.” So in the same way the faith curists pure and simple will not accept the trend of the Bible’s teachings. They will not compare passage with passage. They will not see that every leaf of every chapter of every hook of the Bible teaches that faith must go hand In hand with works. They will not see that it is almost impossible to find an incident where Christ healed the sick unless at the same time he compelled action upon the part of those whom he would physically help. Tlie Miviut* I’ll > Kivian. Hid not Christ compel action upon the part of him that was blind? After he had anointed the blind eyes with a moist clay did he not say unto the young man, "Go wash in the pool of Siloam?” lie went his way, therefore, and washed and came seeing. Hid not Christ compel action upon the part of the ten lepers? "Go show yourselves unto the priests. And it came to pass as they went they were cleansed.” DM not God compel the leper Naamau to leave tin* faroff Damascus and dip sev en times in the Jordan before his flesh became like unto that of a little child? 1 am not here advocating any heretical Idea that Christ cannot and will not In many cases heal our physical dis eases, hut 1 assert that as a people we have no more righl to expect the Di vine Physician to answer our prayevs for health without any co-operative ef fort on our part than we have a right to expect our Divine Commissary to give us our daily bread without our working for it. YVe have Just as much right to kneel down at night and say the Lord's Prayer, “Give us tills day our daily bread,” and then in our ea gerness to expect next morning a vi sionary breakfast to Jump out of a vi sionary fire and sizzle upon a vision ary broiler and the water faucet to fill the pot with visiouary coffee or the yeast to tumble the empty bread tray down the dummy tilled with visionary hot toast as we have to expect the sick to he made well without our own ef fort upon which divine blessing has been invoked — faith to react upon works; works always In the invalid's room to go hand in hand with faith! Job’* Comforter*. Faith cure teachings, pure and sim ple, are not only contrary to Scriptural common sense, but also antagonistic to the commendations with which the Bible again and again honors human unxlicaineut and the physicians’ pre scriptions. The only passage in the Bible which in any way might be con strued by the casual reader as a slur upon doctors and drugs is that one so often quoted by faith curists from the words found iu the book of Job: “Ye are forgers of lies. Ye are all physi cians ot no value." But Job is not here alluding to true physicians at all. This sentence is a figure of speech. Job had lost patience with bis three friends, Ellphaz, Zophar and Bildud. Tit esc three friends, Instead of com forting him in bis time of trouble, came around with enough groans and whines to make a well man sick or s sick man still sicker. They asserted that Job's bolls were the results of his sins, and Job, in disgust, plainly told them If they could bring no better comfort than that they bad all better clear out. Instead of groaning around Job as they did they ought to have spoken words of true comfort to him. as did Christ in his remarks about the blind man when he said, "Neither hath this man sinned iior his parents, but”— he Wits born blind—‘‘that the works of God should he i ole manifest in him.” If tin* Bible do s not honor the phy sician's medicament, why did Paul thirty years after the death of Jesus Christ write about Luke, his fellow traveler, as the "beloved physician?" II Paul did not honor tin* physician’s profession, would he have written thus? I: 1he : r missionary tours Paul saw good old ! r. Luke, like sweet faced oi l Hr. McLure of Drumtocbty, going from tin* cradles of tie* children to the 1» -■ of tie* old folks and carry ing j li;. ii-. l assuagement for pain v.'b •’■< < r 1- * w n*. and lie wrote about g od < : : I r. Luke as we ourselves may r • about some beloved fam ily I ’ T-i; n. '.a l. i<ir«*il I’rofeKNion, If i t* idi i. does not honor the med- i d profess; m why did Christ use as ii is ;ion this entence for one of iv : s, rmon: "They that he whole need i t t physi.-i. n. hut they that are : Hoe, n,/. that divine statement mean, "They that are sick need a 1 i'.vsieiau?” When Hezekiah was sick unto death he prayed to God to give him a longer lease of life. God an swered that prayer. But how? Through human medicament. Isaiah, the proph et, told the nurse to make a poultice out of figs and put it upon the king’s boil, and he recovered. Hezekiah pray ed. oh, yes. But in answer to that prayer God told him to use a sanctified poultice. What did Paul mean when lie wrote to Timothy to “take a little wine for thy stomach's sake.” Paul was merely proscribing a dose of med icine for a sick colleague. Paul writes thus to Timothy, because the Holy Land with hut few exceptions is noted for its impure waters; therefore Paul, as a common sense Christian, prescribes a little medicine when he says, “Drink no water, hut use a little wine for thy All t(trough the Bible atory passages like ■ • to doctors. In no e medical profession d ridiculed in the the noted synthetic hurled at the Chris- iamous prayer chal- lan us set apart two al one to he filled \ve I ad t".i. i tin e iu rei’ere case <1 > we Dm! anathematized Bible. Ty nda! philosopher. on< tian church L- lengo. Said In wards in a li' ri'.h men wi not take any human i. i d eim* at ■ er, the other to he iiiieu ij.v sc & j^aiients under the care of competent physicians. Then let us compare results and sec* which is the more efficacious—a physician’s prescrip tion or a clergyman’s prayer.” My brother, that challenge of Tyndall’s was about as foolish and unscriptural as any challenge that could possibly he issued. No man has it right to bar the Christian physicians out of the hospital ward. God honors the physician's work all through tint Bible. Faith should go hand in hand with works. Works in the hospital should go hand in hand with faith. Scriptural Coiuwou Senae. Again, faith cu»*c‘, pure and simple, if accepted in its entirety of belief, would call a halt to the* laboratory in vestigations made for prevention of disease as well as the physician's cures of those diseases after they have come. It would say to Edward Jenuer: “Your discovery of vaccination is useless. Disease is a condition of the mind, not of the body. Let merciless smallpox start again if it will. The .$50,000 vot ed to you by the British house of par liament as the greatest benefactor of your generation was a nonsensical gift, for you have Itoen a curse to the hu man race instead of a blessing." It would say to i’usteur: “Savant, your inoculation for hydrophobia Is itself a species of madness. If the people would only trust God and do nothing the Lite of the dog afflicted with rabies would he a tonic instead of death." It would say to Koch of Berlin and Fin- sen of Norway: “Foolish men, why hunt the baeilll of consumption and cancer with the penetrating eye of the microscope? God will and can cure disease if we will ask him. Let us pray that all these evil bacilli give one gas]) and die. and they will die. The prevention of disease Is entirely the work of the prayer chamber, not of the scientist’s laboratory.” Is such advice as that rational? Is it in accord with the laws of Scriptural common sense? Are all tin* results of Dr. Maillot's Investigations to go for naught? In 183‘2 (his famous physician, who died iu 1S!>4, was a surgeon In the French army, stationed In Algeria. At that time one In every three and a half men sent by the French government across the Mediterranean died of African fe ver. Dr. Maillot went on in his inves tigation until at last by prescribing quinine to the African recruits the death rate in the French army of Al geria was changed from one in every three and one-half men to one in every twenty men. Are all the sanitary in vestigations for the purification of the city water supplies made by bacteriol ogists to go for naught? If you stop the work of the physicians curing dis eases, then you must also stop the sci entific Investigations of the physicians trying to prevent diseases. The Poor Mau’a Helper. To most of us the old fashioned doc tor yet lives In the memory of our vil lage childhood. He knew every family secret for miles around. He had heard the family skeleton rattling in many a dark closet. He was at every birth, at every marriage altar and at every fu neral. With him the village church bell sounded a dirge almost as often as It chimed for a w«*ddlng. W® knew not when we loved him the most—when he was gathering the rosebuds in the gar den of the nativity or intwlnlng the orange blossoms or placing the white Illy alongside of the pale cheek In the casket. There wits a kind of religious rattle iu his old gig. That child was the most envied of the village who could sit by his si<h* and hold the reins over tiie hack of the old mare, that seemed to he just as old ns the doctor ami to know just ns many family se crets. yet it e< ,1 l not gosjiip any more than did its in; ie: - . W'lieu the hoy was in trouble this kind old doctor would place his fatherly hand upon the lad's shoulder and give him advice. The young maiden would smile under tiie twinkle of his fatherly eye as he chat ted to her of her first sweetheart. Even the bees would buzz louder and the dogs bark more happily, and their tails would wag farter as the doctor drove along. We remember the old black hag he always carried and the long white bandages he placed about the splints when we fell off tL** haymow and broke our arm. The strange looking bottles filled with pills—bottles that ail looked alike—and the piiis, too, seemed to he the same. When the upuister on the Sabbath day entered tic* pulpit ami gave out the first by inn down the church aisle the good old doctor would walk. He was always it little late for services. Hoc- tors are always a little late. I think that is part of their education. It is never dignified for a doctor to he on time. In prayer meeting we loved to hear the good doctor pray. We have heard a good many great and note! ministers pray in our time, hut we al ways thought the old doctor prayed better than any. He seemed to he so near to God—he had seen so much trou ble. When the poor family over the hill was starving he bought them food out of his own pocket. We never knew how much good he did until after the funeral. He was part of every one's life. He was the poor man's helper. He was the rien man's friend. Tlit* C onsecrated Doctor. One day the news went flying over the country roads, “The doctor, the good doctor is sick!” Was it not too had that he could not prescribe for himself and take his own medicine? if he had we know lie would have be come well. But he could pray. How he did pray in his own sickroom! Then one day the news went over the country roads that the old doctor was dead! While we were gathering in the home where lay the wornout body of the tired old physiei. n I can imag ine that the good docior went up to tlit- gates of tiie New Jerusalem and timid ly knocked. The gateman eaPed out. “Who is there?" ’J in* old Christian answered: "Only a poor, wornout vil lage doctor, who is advancing in Christ’s name. Can I come in?" Then the Ixird God Almighty from his throne calk’d out: "Let him in! Let him in! I>et the village doctor come in!” And the angels In the celestial choir began to chime: "Let him in! Let the village doctor come in!” Then all the redeemed spirits over whose earthly deathbeds he had hovered cried: "Let him in! Let our village doctor come in!” Then Christ himself, the great Physician, came forth ami led the wornout man to one of the highest thrones in heaven as he said: “Come in, friend. Come In. This is your throne. For I was sick and ye visited me!” Y\ ill you not believe in such a conse crated physician? YY’ill you not be lieve that by the sick bed faith can go hand in hand with works and the sur geon's knife and that the physician’s prescriptions have a part in the civi lization and the Christianization of the world? And will not you, O physi cian, he a Christian doctor, as well as you, O layman, a Christian patient? All honor, then, to our Christian physicians, whose calling and office are thus divinely consecrated, and may a blessing rest upon their earnest ef forts for the alleviation of the physical afflictions of the human race. [Copyright, 1904, by Louis Klopsch.] it *r;': I 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 rjni^wi mu -ti Other medicines treat symptoms; Rheumacide rtmovts the cause, and, therefore, its CURES ARE PERMANENT. Heins *he digestion, tones up the system. Sample bottle free on application to Bobbitt Chemical Co., Pro prietors, 31G West Lombard St., Baltimore, Md. AM*..- If You Have Money, We will gl, dly take care of it for you, guarantee ing safety, satisfaction and the limit of accommo dation in the handling of it, without cost to you. If You Need Money, We will lend it to you on the most liberal and con siderate terms consistent. Merchants and Planters Bank, Gaffney, South Carolina. Climatic Cures. The Influence of climatic conditions in the cure of consumption is very much overdrawn. The poor patient, and the rich patient, too, can do much better at home by proper attention to food digestion, and a regular use of German Syrup. Free expectoration in the morning is made certain by German syrup, so is a good night’s rest and the absence of that weakening cough and debilitat ing night sweat. Restless nights and the exhaustion due to coughing, the greatest danger and dread of the consumptive, can he pi evented or stopped, by taking German Syrup liberally and regu larly. Should you be able to go to a warmer climate, you will find that of the thousands of consumptives there, the few who are benefited and regain strength are those who use German Sryup. Trial bottles, 25c ; regular size. 75c. Cherokee Drug Co., Gaffney; L. D Allison, Cow pens. 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 Gouble la 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 you and fortune “Caress" you. Gaffney Drug Co. Easter Tide Suggests doors and windows thrown wide open and the letting in of plenty of fresh air, the perfume of flowers and the songs of the little birds. That is the suggestion to the'poet and sentimentalist. W hat does it suggest to you?—a new hat, a new dress, the discarding of your flannels for lighter wear and the putting on of Oxfords and Slippers. The question as to the best place to buy naturally arises in ’your mind. If you are a customer here you have no doubt about the place—a trial makes a permanent customer. If you have not patronized us be fore, come in and let us serve you. Spring Hosiery We carry a full line of Spring Hosiery for Men, Women and Children. You can find what you want here, both in fancy and staple Hosiery. We are well pleased with our start in Millinery, business in this department was better the last two seasons than ever liefore and bids fair to eclipse either of those two this season. We have made some changes in this depart ment which we are pleased to note have added much to the appearance. Under the management of Mrs. Gurley and her efficient help, you need have no fears—they have both taste and conscience, and will give you your money’s worth every time. Our Dress Goods department is alive with good things in both Wool Goods and Cotton Fabrics—Silks, Voiles, Twine Cloths, batistes, Veilings, Sicilians, Mozonettes, Eolians, Homespuns, Henriettas, &c., comprise some of the things. New Ginghams for the Children, .Young Ladies, and Ladies of mature years, White Lawns, ba tistes, Mercerized White Goods, Knicker Suitings, Per cales, &c. Oxford Ties and Slippers We have the fullest and most complete assortment of these we have ever brought to this market. We have a stock that will please you. Men’s Shoes and Oxfords, the best makes and styles. W. J. Wilkins ®> Co. Gaffney, South Carolina Commercial Printing Of every description executed with neatness and dispatch at The Lkdgkk oflice, Gaffney, S. C. New Type, New Presses, the finest quality of Ink and Paper, and Compe tent Workmen. Bend us your orders. FOirnittWEr^iAR j|, e Gaffney City Land and Improvement Co. BAHNKR 8ALVB the moat healing calve In the world. FOIEYSHONETMCAR Offers for sale {HuIIcIIuk-Lots tu this flourlshlux town, GafTiw-y; k1»o Larins new.. • by aud In r***ch of the Schools of Limestone Sprlnifs und of this , In lots of « to IU0 acres ou liberal time rates; also Agricultural Lauds to r.-uf 'o.* f arm purg..*. * For full particulars apply to J. V. SARBATT. Agent. N. B.—All persons are forbidden to enter on. walk or ride through or over the lands of this company, cutting and removing timber, iteblug or hunting, under penally of law.