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( i Im non . By Rev. Frank De Witt Taimatfe. D. D. Los Augelrs, Cal., June 19.—Not in the literal but in tin* ligurntlve sense i do«-s the preacher deal with this un usual text by drawing the broad dis tinction between tin* life that is in spired by a love of all that is noble and pure and one that has become degraded and brutal through the indulgence of seltish passions. The text is Itevela- ; tion xxii. 15, “Without are dogs.” “I never could sympathize with the slur which the Bible casts upon my canine friends,” once said an old man to me. "St. John in that passage of Scripture, ‘Without are dogs,’ seems to despise the dog as I despise the buz zard or the hyena, lie seems to pic ture the Infernal regions as the only suitable place for their kennels. He Insinuates their companionship for man to be a humiliation and a degra- ^ dation. Now, in contrast to that as sertion, I have far more respect for an honest dog than 1 have for a dishonest, Jeceitful man. I count among my dear est friends some of the representatives of the canine race. Indeed I go so far In my respect for dogs that if in that heavenly land I found one of the beau tiful dogs I have owned on earth sleep ing at my feet in that abode of bliss or looking up into my face with the expression of love and fidelity I have seen so often I should not feel it any blight, but rather an enhancement of my happiness.” I could understand my friend’s feel ing, and I love dogs well enough to sympathize with It. There are no grounds for believing In a future life for animals, but I confess that if in the boundless love of God we should find that even for the faithful dog there was a paradise I for one should re joice. 1 have that affection that Sir Walter Scott had for the canine race, and I always feel a sense of compan ionship when a dog is dozing in my study. As a boy I delighted to have a canine companion in my rambles, and to this day I feel, as Bismarck used to say, that no man should despise the friendship of dogs or need hesitate to confide in them some of his innermost thoughts and secrets. When we are rambling over the hills or in our city walks and my dog friends stop and listen to what I say I am always sure of one fact- that they will not betray my confidence as I have known some men to do. "Yes, yes,” 1 said to my aged friend, “like you, I have always loved the dog; but, unlike you, I do not believe the Bible really depreciates the • faithfulness of a good dog." This pas sage of Scripture, “Without are dogs,” Is not casting a slur upon the dog. It Is not sneering at the ancestors of some of those noble beasts belonging to the royal families of dogs which we have adopted Into our homes as honored habitues of our firesides. The seer of Patinos had never seen such dogs as ours. The dogs with which he was fa miliar were such homeless, carrion eat ing dogs as those which to this day roam the narrow streets of Jeru salem and Damascus, degraded curs, whose presence would have been de filing to that beautiful city which he saw in vision. Therefore it is to the eastern dog, homeless and friendless, which I have so often seen in my travels and by whose bowlings I have been awakened at night and have watched while standing upon the ho tel porch of the far east, when he says with evident gratification, “Without are dogs.” The Quarrelsome Were Excluded. But I believe the apostle had a fur ther and deeper meaning than this. I think he meant that the qualities which the dog represented to ids mind were excluded from the heavenly city. Selfishness, degradation, quarrelsome ness, all that rendered dogs hateful to the Jews of the orient, whether in beast or man, were outside those heavenly walls. And, first, I believe he meant that in heaven there would be neither physical nor mental mon strosities. It is to be u place where there would be a perfect mind in har mony with a perfect body and the per fect soul in every way shall have per fect externalities. There are some men so degraded with their vices that their very forms and features have become repulsive. They bear the same rela tion to good living, intelligent men that the oriental dogs bear to our house hold pets. We love to look at the masterpieces of Sir Edwin Landseer, the painter of dogs. There seems to be something even more than human in his “High land Shepherd’s Ghief Mourner,” some thing more than mere brute ferocity In bis "Stag at Bay," something more than a sportsman’s halloo in the “Re turn From Deerstalking.” But the flashing eyed, powerful chested, clean limbed, glossy coated models of Land seer are entirely different physical specimens from the outcast dogs of the east. Have you ever stopped and look ed with pity upon a poor mangy cur crawling along the street? Have you seen disease like porcupine quills stick ing out all over him? Have you seen the people shy off as he came along and heard the passersby say: "Poor dog! Why do not the dog catchers come along and put him out of his misery?” Have you ever seen dogs with their ears torn off and their tails amputated by some carriage wheel or hopping upon three legs bemuse the fourth has been cruelly broken by a stone? Well, there are lots of such dogs in the east. There ^re hundreds and thousands of those poor, miserable, physical mutilations that cower in the dark eorm rs of the Palestine cities or sun themselves upon the hard stones like the blind or the crippled beggars who there seem to be everywhere. And so when St. John declares, "Without are dogs,” I believe he means that in heaven we shall have no blinded eyes, no diseased skins, no crippled limbs, no deaf ears and no physical disfigure ments. All the hideous physical sights which one sees in the wards of the hospitals shall ire forever done away, rhysim! Infirmity Hnrd to Uear. How much this transformation means to many sufferers none but they can realize. It is very hard for the de formed and tin* crippled to maintain spiritual and mental sweetness and serenity. It is easy for a man with a fine constitution and a perfect physical form to be cheerful and happy, but how difficult for one who has to suffer continual pain and Is shut out by de formity from the sports and exercises of companions to be sweet tempered and genial to all about him. “What is tin? matter with So-and-so?” I once asked a dear friend of mine about a mutual acquaintance. “He is so touchy and sensitive that the least wind from the east will twist him all out of shape.” “Yes,” answered my friend, “that is true, but perhaps you have forgotten that that man was born lame. If you e.er stop to think, you will also find that nearly all men and women born with physical Infirmities are cross and crabbed and touchy and sensitive.” "I never thought of It,” I answered. “I believe—yes, I know you are right.” Physical infirmity Is ac companied by and. In fact. Involves mental pain and anguish. All this will be done away with in the celestial city. There will be no defects or deformi ties there to sadden the soul and try the temper of the redeemed. The with- quick eyed and sharp clawed lynx must fall In time before a mortal foe. Every monster leader of the elephantine herd, every shaggy maned Bengal king, must die a violent death. So dies the dog; but. thank God, so does not die the Christian. Sometimes 'tis true that the body of j man may die the death of a dog, but i the Christian has hope in his death, i Though his body perish In battle or in accident, though it may be crushed or burned, so that it cannot be recognized, his soul is safe. He has the conscious ness that Christ is able to keep that which has been committed to him and whatever may befall the body the sou* will be preserved. John B. Gough in one of his wonder 1st so suddenly that at first he will start up from his bed with fright. Then follows the suggestive silence its the brittle evidently ends by the death ol the victim or by the escape of the pursued. SeHimIinemm In llt-nven. W'bat is the Johatiuian meaning of this mortal combat between the tribal dugs of the east? Why, It means that in heaven there are to be no family meannesses, no contemptible, merciless ways such as are often found at the earthly fireside. It means that Instead of one father and one mother gather ing their own children about them In oue “mansion of light” and saying to one of themselves, “Shut the door and keep every one else out; we have enough, and more than enough now; ful lectures gives a description of the let all others take care of themselves remarkable escape of bis father, who as best they can,” all men will be was an old English soldier, trom dying brothers, and all women sisters. There a horrible death. It was during the we shall all be sons and daughters of famous Franco-English war of 1809. one God, who Is the Father, and have when the British troops were retreat- kinship to one Christ, who is the Elder ing before lightning horsed Marshal Brother. It means that In heaven Soult. Hungry and faint and sick there will be no envious plebeian blood, from exposure and lack of food and and no distinctive, supercilious, aristo- also from loss of blood from a wound era tic blood, because there we shall all in the chest, j'oung Gough staggered have been washed in the royal blood of along with his regiment as long as he Jesus. It means that In heaven no could and then fell by the roadside to wealthy man’s wife will be able to die. "He must die,” said his son. “It suck out the life of a poor sewing girl I seemed inevitable that he must die. merely because she Is poor, and no em-1 Suddenly, as he lay upon the ground, ployer will be able to grind his em-1 a large bird of prey, with a red neck ployees down until it means physical growing out of a ruffie of feathers, and mental and often spiritual death, i came swooping along, almost touching It means no vendetta or blood feud; it my father’s body with Its wings, and also means no financial vendetta or then, circling up, it alighted on a point money feud. i a rock and turned Its blood red eye Roaming again through the dark, nar- on its intended victim. As my father row, crowded streets of eastern Pales- saw that horrible thing watching and tine, I surmise, from the words of my waiting to tear him in pieces, even be- text, that heaven Is to be a place of fore life was extinct, it so filled him honored and Jubilant occupations. 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Also my residence corner Race and Johnson streets. W. H. Smith. 3-23-tf F OR KENT—Nice e-room cottage, with ail improvements, on Grenard Street. Ap ply to J. C. Jeffeiies. 4-1-tf Dr. D. P. THOMSON, e Dentist. »-# Office over Cherokee Drug Co. S FITES of rooms to let in the.Star Theatre A. N W food. 3-il-tf poU RENT—A good two-horse farm with a neat tive-room cottage. J. C. Lipscomb. Apply at once to -Iti-tf Wanted. ered limb, the distorted spine, will be! known. All words signifying a degrad- left behind with the mental and spir itual deformities they have produced. The cripple will rejoice that the gnaw ing agony that made his life on earth a period of humiliation and suffering is gone forever. “Without are dogs.” Let me illustrate my thought in an other way, the thought that a healthy body Is very apt to be the incasement of a healthy mind and soul. Here is a little child born into your home, as my first little girl came into my home. You tals. ed work will forever disappear when the lexicons of earth shall be forever consumed upon the funeral pyre of a burning world. It does not mean that heaven is to be a place of Inanition and stagnation and stupidity. But it does mean that heaven is to be a plaee where all workmen shall be honored alike and where the duties of one im- endure this. When I am unable to drive that fearful thing away, it will be tearing my flesh.’ He rose to his feet and crawled and struggled on till at length he crept into a hut and found safety.” The death which menaced that wounded man is the death which awaits the eastern dog. When he Is Incapable of defending himself he is torn to pieces. Men, too, have per ished through the vindictive passions of their fellows. Some have been cru cified, as was Christ; some have been stoned, as was Stephen; some have W ANTED—To make straight loans on city real estate. No commissions. Several thousand dollars to loan. Apr29-tf J. O. Jetfenes. Money Loaned. 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She is always smiling and cooing. 8he never awakens us at night. She is as happy as a sunbeam Why do I make these two astounding statements? First, because I find re corded in tin* eighth chapter of Revela tion the startling fact that “there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.” If heaven was always a still place would St. John have writ ten that sentence In reference to the creeping into our bislroom in the early , day of Judgment. If you would inter- morning.” But after that little child has been In your home eight or ten months suddenly her nature seems to undergo a radical change. The hot hand of fe er touches her forehead. The red marks blotch her fair skin. Baked and twisted with pain, she cries all the day and most of the night, and even in her sleep she continually ut ters a low, moaning whine. What is the matter? Has the child’s disposi tion changed? Oh, no. The physical body has become diseased, and now the mind Is fretting in sympathy. Thus we find that a perfect body Is apt to have a perfect mind and an Imperfect body an Imperfect mind. So when St. John says, “Without are dogs,” I be lieve be means that In heaven we shall have no physical Infirmities, no club foot like Lord Byron, no gnarled and twisted nervous organization like Alex ander Pope, no blinded eyes like John Milton, no deaf ears like Beethoven, no skin leprous and covered with sores. It shall be physically a “dogless heav en.” Ob, my brother, thank God for the perfect physical bodies of the resur rection ! The Howl of Warning. Roaming again through the crowded streets of Palestine, I find that the same merciless tribal bitterness and mortal enmities which were once rife among the North American Indians arc prevalent among the dogs of the east. As each Indian tribe owned its own territory and In time of war It meant death for a member ol oue tribe to be found wandering about In the “land of strangers,” so the dogs of the east take possession of the different streets of the great cities. Each canine tribe has Its sentinels standing guard at the end of the streets. Then If one dog of an other tribe enters that street the howl of warning Is given. At once all the other dogs of that tribe leap to their feet and, as a pack of hungry wolves, make a mad rush for that stranger to tear him limb from limb. We must study my text In the canine language of the east. Old hunters tell us that no man has truly heard a lion roar unless he has heard the king of the forest sound his call of defiance iu the dark Jungles of the African con- tlnent. Then the awo striking power of that voice seems to come from ev erywhere and yet from nowhere. The hills are sounding boards which toss the echoes us the battledoors throw the shuttlecocks backward and for ward. Then the fawns squat down with fright, and the mother birds press lower upon their nests, and the very leave* of the trees seem too terror stricken to move. Like the roaring Hons la the African forests are the bowlings of the dogs In the streets of Damascus and Jerusalem. When one canine tribe plunges upon a dog of an other tribe which wanders into their street or territory it seems as though all the demoniacal voices of the Infer nal regions are let loose. First there comes the sharp, angry bark, as though the picket line of a great army had fired u gun to call the host to arms, then mattered growls, then the fright ened bark of the pursued dog, then a M*ry pandemonium of barkings and growllngH and angry, snarling canine voices. They awake the sleeping tour- pret that passage In a common sense way would you not practically say, “Why. heaven is such a busy place that all the angels and archangels and re deemed Immortals are working, and working all the time? But when St. John saw the books of the Judgment opened then there was an awful still ness. Every winged messenger kept still, every work ceased, every occupa tion was suspended.” As Albert Barnes Interpreted this passage, “Then there was an awful stillness, as if all heaven was reverently waiting for the develop ment.’’ Oh, yes, heaven Is to be a busy place. It has been very busy during all the years and the milleunlums that are past. It will be very busy during all the eternities that are to come, with the exception of one cessation of work for u short time, when there shall be “silence in heaven for about the space of half an hour.” Dovii of tl»e East Were Scavenger*. Following my first premise that heaven Is to be a busy place my sec ond premise Is likewise true. How do I know that the busy occupations of heaven will never offer despised work for the redeemed Immortals? The words of my text prove that. The dogs of the east were the scavengers. The eastern people had no wonderful sys tems of sewerage as have we. They had no means of carrying away by subterranean pipes the offal and refuse of their large towns. But all the refuse of the kitchens and the homes and the barns were and are thrown Into the streets, where the dogs devour them. In heaven, however, we shall have none of the repulsive and abhorrent occupations with which earth has been cursed. Do you wonder that when I rode Into Damascus and saw lying iu the streets the dead body of a horse, over which the dogs were flghtiug and gormandizing, I should catch u glimpse of a heavenly vision, where there shall be no loathsome occupations us is this one of the canine scavengers of the east? Heaven Is to be a place of con tinual work. Heaven is, however, to be a place of glorious, happy, Jubilant, honored occupations. mortal shall be respected as much as j been beheaded, as was 1’aul; some Lave ore the occupations of other immor- been burned at the-stake, as were Rid ley and Latimer. But how different was their future from that of the dog! From out those crushed aud mutilated bodies the martyr spirits have gone up. redeemed and glorified, to dwell forever before the throne. A I.»■«;«■ ml of HIuk Solomon. O ye mortals, destined to live for ever either in bliss or in misery, does not the offer that Christ makes you stir your d -ire for salvation? Accept his proffered gift, and then, be your end what it may, your being rooted up from this world, with Its bitter fruits of sorrow and pain and misery, will mean nothing more than your be ing transplanted into that supernal garden iu which you will grow and flourish and bear fruit to the honor and glory <iS God. There is an old leg end that when King Solomon was a boy one day he begged bis teacher to show him a miracle. Nathan thrust Ids finger Into the soil and dropped therein a little seed. Immediately that seed began to sprout. While the lad looked on the two little green leaves grew Into a round stem. Then the stem swelled out with the trunk of a large tree. Then the tree, like “the seven branches, became like the seven candlesticks of the altars,” and the birds of the air flew into those branch es and build(“d there their nests and reared their young. While be looked the blossoms grew upon that tree, and then those blossoms were changed into tin* deep rich red fruit which blushed like the glow' of the setting sun. That Is merely a legend, but there Is a real miracle which can be worked in your lives infinitely greater than young Sol omon is supposed to have seen. The seed of eternal life planted by the Holy Spirit In your heart can change your whole nature. Instead of those qualities which degrade you to the level of the brutes, Instead of the sinful propensities which distort and deform your being, there shall grow from that divine seed a plant of beauty, graceful and glorious with heavenly loveliness and eternal in ever develop ing life. “Ye shall be like a tree plant ed by the ri vers of water, that brlngeth forth its fruit in its season, and what- soever ye doeth shall prosper.” What is your choice? Will you live a life of beauty and usefulness, a life patterned on that divine life which Christ lived on earth, ending in a triumphant resur rection, or will you choose the wick edness, the vice, the corruption, of the world, feeding like the eastern dog on the carrion of life and becoming In Gaffney, S. C., June 18, 1904. Ed. of Ledger;—The many friends of Professor W. F. McArthur urge lature. We feel confident if he will consent to make the race he will be elected. Many Voters. N. W. 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Remember, If ye live crowded streets of eastern Palestine I a ft e r the flesh ye shall die, and from know from the simile of my text that t h at abode of bliss, where there are the Christian’s earthly translation Is Joys forever more, you will be excluded not to be a horror, a tragedy, a terrific, with all whose natures have grown a repulsive and a terror Inspiring de- fl erce an d cruel and debased. “With- mlae. When the Christian dies he does ou t are dogs.” not die like a dog, but he ascends as did the Bavlour. He does not growl and whine with fear, but be mounts from Joy to Joy, from sublimity to sub limity, from exultation to exultation, from glory to glory. Ab the Dog Dies. The eastern dog’s death Is a gloomy picture. He dies the death of all wild beasts, and that death Is a tragedy. Some years ago the author of a history of the beasts of the African forests made this statement, which will long live In my memory: “No beast or bird or reptile In all the dark continent dies a natural death. No sooner doee Us physical strength weaken than there are some bestial or serpentine cannibals or some enemy of bis species ready to feed upon bis dying body and atill the feeble or the quick beatings of his heart” That means every deer or fawn that dlee dies a tragic death. Every [Copyright. 1904, by Louis Klopscb.} More Hindrance Than Help. Bishop David H. Greer of New York recently took the American girl to task for frivolity.* A young woman the other day re monstrated with Bishop Greer about this matter. “I, for Instance, am not frivolous,” she said. “On the contrary, I am fond of cooking. 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Feeling that my friends through out the county Lave the confidence In me that they have had heretofore and soliciting a continuance of the same, I take pleasure In again an nouncing myself as a candidate for re-election to the office of county Auditor, subject to the action of the Democratic primary election. W. D. Camp. for “writing in red’’—all at the catalogue price for machine complete. I will be in your town about once a month in the interest of the Remington Typewriters. In the meantime if you are interested in a typewriter, write me and I will come to see you, with brand new latest model Remington and demon strate same to you. We carry a big stock of latest model Remingtons in Charlotte, aud can send you one on a moment’s notice, and will gladly do so if you wish to examine one for several days. We sell all grades and kinds of carbon papers, typewriter oils, etc., and the Paragon—the best guaranteed ribbon— | made for all kinds of typewriters, 75 cts. i each. 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