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I' * ..■Jlev Advisory jH'pt., 'i.’nu Chaitouooga Medlcino Co., Cuutiauooga, Teua. --wt-Tr’w——tr—--rf- ^ WE WANT AU. INTERENTEO IN MACHINERY Tm MATS OUR HAMS RRROM TRIM DURINQ 1908 Write uo otetlnfl what UrE of MAOMINBRY you uoo or wM taotell* and wo will moll you Free op all cost A NAMOSOMR ARO UORPNL Rocket diary and atiao COMMEROIAL CALENDAR GMw Madilnefy Compwy, OOLUMBIA, & a SPECIAL PRIDES 0 lJtffe 3 KTiiiSCSHPS Th« tsesif'iiir* ?riw*o □tUlR- ft W 4, ft A htii if a ’* 5|A1I Meats always are one cent lower on the pouno than any other market in the city, at Ca! Sermon By Rev. Frank DeVVi't Talmage, D. D. thou art. and unto dust thou shalt re turn." *Tir 1 ihc .nd for thy Hake.” ( remember liein;,' stniek with u prac- tleal ii i:s. -ation of what God meant by that sememe. Some years ago out in the country I was waiking over the hillsjh s overiooki a beautiful valley -M n PEOPLE'S t a v \ West End Bargains 1 have purchased the stock of Staple and Fancy Groceries, Confection eries, Cigars, Tobacco, Dry Goods and Notions formerly belonging to J. A. Graves, in ‘‘West] Bud.” I bought'the goods A. Ilia; Iitoiluotion From first prices, and will .-fell just as I bought—Low Down. Call and in spect my stock and you will find I can save you money. B. F. Gibbs, Graves’ Old Stand—West End. See Here! I am selling Shoes, flats, Groceries, Axes and all other goods at bottom prices. I am still running my Meat Market, and will handle the best beef than can he bought, oend tn your orders for fresh meats and sausage. I, M. Peeler. I .'is Angelos, Cal., Fob. 5.—That God has a purpose and n design in permit ting trouble and sorrow to continue iu the world is claimed by the preacher In tlr’-i sermon on the mysteries of life; tc::t, Genesis xviii, 14, "Is anything too* hard for the Lord?” "God is a spirit, infinite, eternal ana unchangeable in his being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness and trut'^” This is the definition of God found in the Westminster Shorter Cate chism. No man or body of men could give a complete definition of all that God is. His nature transcends all hu man conception. Language fails in the attempt to describe his infinite per fection. Strive as we may, we realize that he is far beyond nil that we can think or imagine. Probably no one has framed an utterance that comes so near to the truth as this of the Westmin ster divines, and, though it is confess edly inadequate, it stands unparalleled in the struggle to reach the unattain able. It is a strange story that is told of its origin. The convocation of the West- minsterdivines was drawing to its close. For nearly six long years, since July 1, 1043, they had been meeting almost daily iu the famous hall of Westmin ster which now bears their name. They had organized for the church a "directory of public worship” and had almost finished the larger and the shorter catechisms. Their work was practically finished with but one excep tion. They could not frame a defini tion which would clearly, comprehen sively and completely answer the ques tion, “What is God?” At Inst, in the midst of a heated debate, a young man who was comparatively an obscure member arose and said, “Let us pray.” Then he commenced his prayer in these simple words: "O God, thou who art a spirit, infiuite, eternal and unchange able in thy being, wisdom, power, holi ness, justice, goodness and truth, teach us what thou art!” “With that,” so says tradition, “all the members of the Westminster convocation leaped to their feet, crying: ‘That is our definition of what is God. It is an inspiration from his throne.’ ” So it was inserted in the catechism as the best and fullest definition that could be made of the Being whose attributes ere beyond human knowledge. Hard to Comprehend. Many profess to believe that God is omnipotent, omnipresent and omnis cient, yet it is awfully hard for us in truth to comprehend this. We say, "He can do all tilings.” But when some one begins to pin our faith down to a practical illustration of “Can God do this?” we say, like Nieodemus, "How can these things be?” We need constantly to remember that there are no limitations to the divine power and that all that lie has promised he is abundantly able to perform. When we see some gigantic evil that needs to be removed; when we think of some benefit that seems necessary to the world, our hearts often sink in despair ns we regard it as impossible. Then new courage and new hope ought to fill our minds as we reflect on the omnipo tence of the God in whom we trust and to say with the angel who talked with Abraham's wife, “Is anything too hard for the Lord?” A great flood of in spired light now tills your soul. You answer: “No, no; nothing is impossible for God. God is a spirit, infinite, eter nal and unchangeable in his being, wisdom, power, holiness, Justice, good ness and truth.” God is all powerful, all present and all seeing. You grant it. Then I would invite you to consider the natu ral influences of your belief. We ask ourselves why a God of unlimited pow er does not remove some of the evils that cause so much misery in the world. We know' not. Easy would It be if God wished to take all poverty out of the world. With a mere word he could create for every man a palace iu w’bieh to live. With a mere word lie could place that palace in the midst of a garden. With a mere word lie could have rainbow’s playing hide and seek among the falling, spring ing, tumbling waters of the fountains of that garden. With a mere word lie could have every man’s table groaning under the richest treasures of orchards and gardens and fields. He could fur- nisli to each home the finest of ward robes and the most resplendent of Jew els and the costliest of earthly treas ures. The sheep upon a thousand hills all belong to God. The gold hurled In the darkest of mines Is his. The pearls glistening in the opened shells of the oysters lying by the coral reefs among the entangled “gardens of the seas" are all his. Yet this abundant wealth is to he obtained by men only by hard labor. It is his law that man shall work for the riches that are provided for him. God practically gives us nothing unless we are ready to w r ork for it. A Tar Ita-m-liiiik CuimiiniMlment. The far reaching commandment which God spoke to Adam of old tie speaks to ns; "Cursed is the groiyal for thy sake; in soitow shalt thou eat of It all the days of thy life; thorns and thistles ahull It bring forth to thee, and thou s' "It eat the herb of the field; In the eat of thy brow shalt thou eat bread i ll thou return unto the ground, for out of It wast thou taken, for dust filled witli rich farms, i said to the companion by my sii! ■: "Look! Did you ever see a more beautiful eovmtry than that? God is certainly a rich provider for his children.” "Yes," answered my companion, "but did you ever stop to think that, though God’s wealth is uu- limited, lie gives but few of the neces sities to man unless man is ready to work for them? God gives us the soil; God gives us the seisls. But the essen tial food products which come from that soil must be developed by unceas ing toil. Tins fact is emphatically true of all the cereals.” Then I commenced to ponder over the words of my friend, and I said: “Yes, you are right. Never since the fall of man has God provided for man wheat or rye or corn unless man as a farmer will cultivate those cereals. All kinds of weeds may grow wild, all kinds of thorns and thistles certainly do grow wild, but the cereals will not grow’ wild.” From the earth man must obtain his bread. He must work or starve. The soil must be pre pared; the seed must be sown; the harrest must be gathered. Hta Power LiniitleaN. Let me remind you, too, how limit less are the energies which God has in his control. Everywhere are pow er and force, but man must patiently study and discover for himself bow to apply them to his purposes. Very slowly has he learned the secrets of the world in which he is placed. God might have revealed the whole to him at the outset, but he wished him to find it out for himself, and as each source of power was discovered he must learn how to harness it aright that it may do his bidding and relieve him of toil. Go to Niagara falls and take your stand on the ledge of rock called Observation point and watch that rush of water descending from the heights. What power is tnere to light our cities, to bear our burdens, to il luminate our habitations! Yet for countless ages it has been running to waste because man did not know how to harness it aright. Staud on the seashore and see the power in the in coming tide. Quietly and resistlessly wave succeeds wave, breaking impo- tently on the rocks, yet there is power there that might be turned to account. The little streamlet that turns the wheel of the village mill, grinding the corn and wheat for a whole valley, is feeble beside the billows of the sea. This, too, man may yet learn to har ness that it may work for him. The secret is with the Lord. Man must plan and contrive and design before he can master it. So long as lie sits at ease and makes no effort it is useless to him. Why should not God have given man this knowledge at the be ginning? Because he wished him to develop his intellect. He wished to teach him that there was a reward for his labor. By the sweat of his brow he must gain his bread. , All, my friends, this problem that perplexes us, this distressing question of why God permits us to struggle along iu poverty and hardship, finds its solution in the Bible. It was not iu vindictiveness or for his own sake that lie cursed the ground. The sen tence was beneficial and remedial. “Cursed is the ground for thy sake.” God is allowing the thorns and the thistles to grow wild instead of the wheat and the barley. Why? By the bayonet thrusts of those thorns God Is driving us closer and closer to him self. By putting us in tiie treadmill of unceasing daily toil God is teaching us to turn our eyes away from tempta tion. He is also teaching us to turn them toward himself. Work serves u useful purpose. Our toil and difficulty and sorrow are intended to draw us nearer to himself. When trust in God and love of him have filled the hearts of men, when the knowledge of God covers the earth as the waters cover the sea, then poverty will have fulfilled its mission and will be eliminated from this weary world, for then, says Isai ah, “Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree, and it shall be to the Lord for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.” Oh, sinner, thank God today that lie makes your callous hand stick to the plow of daily toil in order that your feet shall follow the narrow and straight groove of virtue and truth and purity and gospel consecration and right. God could easily take out of this world all physical ailments if lie would. He could change the Invalid chairs of the homes, the operating tables of the hospitals, the medicine bottles of the drug stores, the ear trumpets of the deaf, the ambulance wagons and the anaesthetics and the splints and the bandages of a military surgeon’s outfit and make them as unsuitable and anti quated articles for modern use ns the chopsticks of the Chinese would be for the Caucasian race or the sandals of an Arab chief would be for the short loggel Eskimo of the arctic. He could at a mere word stiaighten the crooked limbs and loosen the dumb lips and strengthen the weak lungs. God did it in the past; lie can do It now. God is the same “yesterday, today and forev ermore.” But God does not take all sickness out of tills world because lie does not wish physical pain and suffer ing to cease to perform their spiritual mission In the world. Muxt Perform TlieJr MInhIoii. “A beneficent influence for pain and physical ailments." “Oh.” says some one, "I do not believe that can be true. Can any good come from a flushed, fevered cheek or from a hacking cough or from a sh'cpless night? God is good. God is love. Therefore a good and n loving God does not wish Ids children to suffer any more M an an earthly parent would want his children to be physically sick or in pain. Ask that mother as she Is up in the mid dle of the night to put cool bandages upon the hot brow of her child if she sees any blessing in sickness. Ask that father who takes Ids lovely daugh ter down to southern climes to burn out with the hot rays of the sun the microbes of a diseased lung if he can see any blessing in one of his dear chil dren slowly fading away as a beautiful flower will fade and wither before the chilling breath of |he autumnal frosts. Ask that child if she sees any blessing in pain when night after night she must hear her mother groan under the gnawing advancement of a fatal can cer. When Christ was upon earth he never heard the suppliant cry of a leper but his hands cleansed away the scales. He never saw one possessed with the ‘devils of disease,’ mental or physical, unless he cast them forth, even though they were legiou. How can there now be any blessing in phys ical pain when Christ's mission on earth was to heal the sick and be a divine physician to the body as well as to the soul?” Yes, my brother, blessings can come and do come from physical pain in two ways. First, In the influence of sick ness upon those who are sick. You can read this truth in the looks of those who have been near to deiij^i’s' door. When Dante used to walk through the streets of the city of his adoption, the passersby would stop and look at him and in awe say, “There goes a man who has been in hell.” When we see Christian men and women who have lain under the shadow of death in a sickroom we know they have had ex periences which have influenced them even as Dante had when, with Virgil ns his guide, he trod the hot, blistering sands where dwelt and agonized the multitudes of the “lost and the de stroyed.” We ateo know that their ex periences of suffering ijavf molded their lives for good, even as Samuel Johnson felt this experiei^o in his own life. “I myself,” said he, ‘'was for some years totally regardless of religion. It had dropped out of my mind. II was at an early part of my life. Sickness brought it back, and I hope I have nev er lost it since.” O man, is not this true of you? Do you suppose William McKinley could ever have uttered the Lord’s Prayer with such feeling as he did had he not been lying upon an op erating table in the Emergency hos pital of the world’s fair? Do you be lieve that Christ would be as near to you had you not talked with him in the midnight hour when the nurse was dozing in her chair by your bed? “Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy on me!” cried blind Rnrtemeus in his physical weakness to the passing Christ. “Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy on me!” we have cried to Christ in our physical torture. Do you not see any blessing In pain, any spiritual mission in physical suffering in your past life? The UleNMedned* of Sickness. Beneficent is the sick bed for the Invalid. Blessed is its influence upon those who come in touch also with the sanctified sufferer. Wendell Phillips would not have been as brave and as true a man ns he was had his life not been inspired by the bravery of that sick wife who always kept saying to him: “On. Wendell, on! God has a mission for you. While you are out battling in his name I will be here praying and waiting for you.” Could any one read the eulogy Robert J. Burdette wrote about his dead wife and not realize that the frail »little •’Woman whom he for years carried around in his arms had a mighty mis sion in molding and developing her husband's life for spiritual good? By the letters my mother wrote me from her sick room and by the letters you have received from a sick wife or a sick daughter or a sick mother who was at that time in the shadow of death you/ know that some of God’s mightiest agents for the salvation of the world are to be found among those of'pale cheeks, thin hands and fevered brows. Oil. no, my friends, God will never take out of this world the spir itual mission of physical pain and suf fering until, through those sufferings, the multitudes have been brought to confess Christ at the foot of the cross. An Enny Task. Easy would it be for God to make right might and to melt the iron heel of tyranny in the hot fires of his in dignation and righteous wrath. Easy would it be for God to come forth with his great legions of angels and ride down the hillsides of heaven upon the white charger of victory. Easy would it be for God to destroy his puuy ad versaries, as they are trying to destroy his kingdom on earth. How do I know this? In the first chapter of Proverbs I read that "when the time shall draw near for God to bear his right and come to the defense of his children by the overthrow of ids enemies God shall say: “I also will laugh at your calam ity. I will mock when your fear cometh.” God will easily overthrow his adversaries when the right time comes. But now even sin has its mis sion. The battle against sin can devel op us, even as a youth can be develop ed in his struggles against the trials of the world. Injustices have their beuefleent mis sion? How else would you ever appre ciate what the pardoning love of Christ meant unless you learned It through your willingness to forgive those who have “reviled you and perse cuted you and have said all manner of evil against you falsely for my sake.” Don’t you remember how you were distressed by calumnies and fa Is*' charges uttered by some malicious ene my? How angry and furious you were against the calumniator! You have learned your lesson now; you have learned how to forgive. Was it not in trying to over.-ome those bitternesses and hatreds that you were led into the realization of the truth that God is love and that we must forgive men their trespasses, even as our Father in henvt i forgives ns our trespasses. Oh, yes, injur ies have their spiritual mis- m. ’ iv.■ taught us that the true go^ .es not consist simply iu showi. g i; w we Ik hi reach out our hands to oi’r f riends, hut also how we should reach «. loving hands to our enemies. in triumphing over the wrongs by which we are surrounded God is la i<- ling us how. for his sake, we can triumph over our own evil selves. Denth Might Me AbolUhiMl. Easy would it be for God to make death an impossibility. When Christ stood by tiie bier of “the only son of his mother, aud she a widow,” he was able to make a silent corpse open its eyes and sit up. He said, "Young man, I say unto thee, arise!” When Christ went to the tomb of dead Lazarus lie said to Mary and Martha: “Thy broth er is not dead. He Ns only asleep.” Christ looked upon death then in the same way you and I would stand over the crib in which slumbers one of our little children. We know that we can bend over the crib and kiss our little one aud say: “Wake, baby. Papa is here.” Then the baby will awake and come to our arms. Christ only had to speak, and Lazarus came forth. The day is coming when Christ will speak and all the family tombs and the “God’s half acres” and the lonely graves on western prairies and the wrecked and sunken hulks of the At lantic and the Pacific oceans lying at the foot of coral reefs will give up their dead. But until that ddy death must reign, aud only through death can we enter into life and into that land where there is no more death. Has death no purpose in the divine economy? Have all the agonies and sorrows and bereavements no wise de sign? Ask that father who when he parted with his beloved child learned to love and trust God and lived a hal lowed life ever after in the hope of once more clasping her in his arms. Ask that husband whose wife passed from his ken and wty>se days of lone liness drove him for comfort to him whose love brightens every sorrow. It is at a fearful cost that some men learn the lesson of faith, but .once learned they bless even the loss that taught them. Our earthly loss may mean our heav enly gain. The agonies of death may yet be swallowed up in victories that shall never die. There is a beautiful legend told that in the far east a kittg was to make a long journey. He there fore sent ahead of him his representa tive to build for him a palace in which he might live while he sojourned there. He provided this forerunner liberally with money and supplies. When the representative of the king arrived in this faroff land he found there raging a great famine and plague. Thousands upon thousands of the people there were dying from hunger and the dis eases resultant from starvation. So this representative of the king changed his gold into bread. He sold all the royal jewels and bought still more bread. Then he bartered away the king’s ralmentjtnd his horses and char iots, and with the money he bought still more bread until all the people were fed and the famine was stopped. At first when tiie king heard what had been done he was very wroth. But when he found out how many lives had been saved with his money he honored his forerunner by making him prime minister. , '• An Old I.evend. A short time after this the king died. When he came to the gate of heaven, at first he was refused admittance, for lie seemed to have no heavenly pass port. Then the great King of kings came forth and said: “Let him in. Let him in. Ho has one of the finest man sions in heaven reserved for him.” Then the King of kings took the trembling, frightened immortal along one of the chief boulevards of heaven and pointed to a mansion near the great white throne and said: “There is your palace. You have built it.” “When and where did I build yonder palace?” asked the earthly king. Then the King of kings answered: “When your forerunner with your consent wiped away the tears of those starving people in that faroff land I caught those tears and changed them into jewels. Here they are glittering in your crown, which you will find in yonder palace. When lie erected tomb stones over the pauper graves of the dead I took those stones and lifted them into the stones of yonder walls. When he stilled tiie cries of the hun gry begging for bread I transformed those sobs into the songs of your ever- last triumph. Here is your palace, here your jeweled crown.” In this strange legend I find a mes sage of consolation. Our gifts, Rbr sor rows, our sacrifices, all the pain aud sadness and weariness we bear, are not lost. They are intrusted to Christ, who uses them all in his ministry of love. The Divine Father accepts the offering and transforms it into a treas ury of gems, an eternal palace, in which we shall live forever with our Lord. There we shall find our loved ones whom we lost; there our heartaches and tears take on tiie*form of brilliant crowns, whose glory shall never fade, and in tiie terrible black winged mon ster of death we recognize the white winged angel of eternal life. But though I have been talking about the things it would be easy for God to do I cannot close without littering one word in reference to one of “God’s im possibles.” 11 is easy for us to lie saved if we will be saved in God’s way. He has given his only begotten Son to die for us. lie has given his Spirit to snnetify us. He has made it easy for us to be saved. But lie wi)l not save us agalust our own will. That is im possible even to God. Wi must yield to him, renounce our sin and accept his offer of salvation. O man. will you resist? Will you continue in rebellion? Will you not rather say: “I give my self to thee. Make me thine own child through Jesus Christ our T<ord?" [Copyright, 1906. by I^ouls Klopsch.] Fraud Exposed. j A few counterfeiters have lately I been making and trying to sell imi- i ations of Dr. King’s New Discovery lor Consumption, Coughs ami Colds, ; and other medicines, thereby defraud- j i"!', the public. This is to warn you to i be ware of such people, who seek to ) oftt, through stealing the reputation o; remedies which have been success ful .y curing disease for over 35 years. * aiire protection, to you, is our name on the wrapper. Look for it, on all Dr. King s, or Bucklen’s remedies as f* 1 T are niere imitations. H. E. Ml ( KLLN & CO., Chicago, 111., and vVinsdor, Canada. A man can have a lot of relatives but a merciful justice confines him to one mother-in-law. Notice. Notice is hereby given that the health of the people of this county Is m imminent danger and must be taken care of. It has been decided that every precaution be taken to prevent prolonged cases of pneumonia, grippe etc. The best thing to do is to give a good cough mixture as soon as the cough starts. Get Murray’s Hore- hound, Mullein and Tfcr. Only 25c a bottle. At all druggists. It makes a woman pretty mad to think she can’t cut down her weight the way she does her age. A Guaranteed Cure for Piles. Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protrud- Dru S£ists refund money If PAZO OINTMENT fails to cure any case, no matter of how long standing, in 6 to 14 days. First application gives ease and rest. 50c. If your druggist hasn’t it send 50c in stamps and it will be forwarded post-paid by Paris Medicine Co., St Louis, Mo. A woman likes her husband to swear when he is mad, so she can be thankful she is a good Christian. A Night Alarm. Worse than an alarm of fire at night is the brassy cough of croup, which sounds like the children’s death knell and it means death unless something is done quickly. Foley’s Honey and Tar never fails to give instant re lief and quickly cures the worst forms of croup. Mrs. P. L. Cordier, of Man- nington, Ky., writes: “My three year old girl had a severe case of croup; the doctor said she could not live. I got a bottle bf Foley’s Honey and Tar, the first dose gave quick relief and saved her life.” Refuse substitutes. Sold by Cherokee Drug Co. Even the temperance people may consider the saloon a good thing to go by. Winter coughs are apt to result in consumption if neglected. They can be soon broken up by using Foley’s Honey and Tar. Sold by Cherokee Drug Co. The man in the moon is impolite enough to make up a face every month. To Cure a Cold in One Day take LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE Tablets. All druggists refund the money if it fails to cure. E. W. Grove’s signature is on each box! 25c. banner salve the most healing salve in the world. Is it Right? Is It right that a property-owner should lose $4.20 to let a dealer make 50 cents? A dealer makes 50 cents more on fourteen gallons of ready- for-use paint, at $1.50 per gallon, than our agent does on eight gallons of L. & M. paint and six gallons of linseed oil, which makes fourteen gallons of the best paint in the world, at $1.20 per gallon; the property-owner loses just $4.20.* Is it right? It only requires 4 gallons of L. & M. and 3 gallons linseed oil to paint a moderate sized house. Ten Thausand Churches painted with Longman & Martinez L. & M. PAint. .-Liberal quantity given to churches when bought from Smith Hardware Co,, Gaffney; Blacksburg Drug Co., Blacksburg. The Up-To-Date Market. I have the Beef and the Pork, any cuts you want, and will give you any kind of a piece you want. It is first- class and we want to sell it, too. How much can we send you? Plen ty fresh double-ground Sausage daily. A gcxxl stock of fresh Danish Cabbage, T rish Potatoes, Sweet Pota toes; plemy -‘f nice Candies and fine Northern Apples, Oranges, Lemons, and Raisins at to and 15c per pound. Come or call ’Phone No. 60, when you want something good. Same price charged as cash. I am the man that broke the ice. Yours for business, L. W. McGuinn. Notice! Don’t forget, call on us when you wartt something nice in fresh Meats and Country Produce. Our meat cutter has fifteen years ex- perience and can cut vour meat t»i suit you Give us a trial order and see for yourself. Our prices; All Steak straight 10c lb. Pork toe, la^cand 15c, fat off. Yours for business, Thank you, Dempsey & Hawkins, Opposite Star Theatre. -——^ = — 'Subscribe for The Ledger, only $1.50 a year. mm