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Dr. S. H. Griffith, PHYSICAN - SURGEON - OCULIST. Former pupil of the celebra ted Oculist, Dr. Julian J. Chisolm, ot Baltimore. Has also taken special post-grad uate course in the Rye, Ivir, Nose and Throat Hospital of Baltimore. Glasses Fitted Accurately and Scientifically. jt Office in Cherokee Drug Co., B’ldg. FOR ALL COUNTY NEWS, IM PORTANT HAPPENINGS IN THE STATE AND EVENTS OF INTEREST IN FOREIGN LANDS, TAKE AND READ THE LEDGER. Los Angeles, Cal., April BO.—In this senium the preacher draws from the old story a powerful lesson on the sins of modern society and shows the way of escape from such sins and their con- seqlienees. The text is Luke xvii, 32. “Remember Lot’s wife.” Truth is truth at nil times. But truth is never more powerfully driven home to the consciences of men than when illustrated by parable or symbolized by biography or exemplified by anecdote. Christ always symbolizes truth in a very simple way. Today he appears to us, as well as to the Pharisees of old, and says: “Men, you know the history of Lot’s wife. With great opportunity of usefulness, yet she became false to her trust. Do not make the sinful mis takes she made. Do not have her doom your doom. By yonder pillar of salt learn that the wages of sin is always death. Repent of your sins while there Is yet time. Repent as John the Bap tist exhorted you to repent. Come and bow at God’s mercy seat, and bow now.” May God teach us one and all to linger only long enough in the plains of Sodom ami Gomorrah to learn the mighty gospel lesson that there is no safety anywhere for sinful man out side the protecting and forgiving love of Jesus Christ. Like Lot’s wife, the most of us! Why? We are freed from the hitter temptations which, as a pack of hun gry wolves, follow in the wake of merciless poverty. We have never known what it is to arise in the morn ing and have nothing to eat. We have never known what it is to shiver in cold because we could not afford a warm garment for our backs. We never knew what it was to stagger about a great city after the hours of midnight in a snowstorm because we did not know where to lay our heads and then had to apply to. the police station and sleep with a lot of filthy, dirty tramps upon the stone floors, with our ragged shoes under our heads for a pillow. We may not have been able to count our sheep by the thou sands and our herds of horses and cattle by the hundreds, as Lot’s wife did. We may not have servants ga lore and messengers to do our slightest bidding. But, like Lot’s wife when slip and her husband separated from the Abrahamic household, we have ai- j ways had enough food to eat, enough j clothing to wear and a comfortable j i place in which to slumber. We have 1 never been in a position where hunger ( was gnawing at our vitals and where temptation came snarling and snap- j ping at our heels in our desperate | struggle for a physical existence. We ' never knew what it was to long to j ! earn our bread by the sweat of our i brow and never he able to crunch a ! 1 crumb. Deserve* Pity. Even murder, the worst of crimes, j has degrees of turpitude. God pity tin man who is placed In the awful posi tion of one who realizes that he has to slay ids brother or die himself. God pity the starving shipwrecked sailor who crouches upon the edge of a raft In the middle of the Atlantic ocean, watching his companion at the other side of the raft, who is hunger mad like himself. God pity him as he leaps forward as a tiger might leap upon the hack of a trembling fawn and buries Ids teeth In the Jugular vein of his friend and drinks the flowing blood In fiendish glee as a mountain lioness would bury her teeth In the soft fur of a rabbit or a fat prairie dog. I tell you. my friends. God has different standards of Judgment for sin. It makes a great deal of difference how he condemns us for sin if, on the one hand, we, like I/)t’s wife, have finan cial plenty and If. on the other hand, we are poor, hungry outcasts, with no work and no means of earning any kind of an honest livelihood. To sin for pleasure and to sin because you do not know which way to turn for food are I two entirely different propositions In God’s economy. Oh, the temptations that come to some men on account of their struggles for a physical existence! I was never more Impressed with the awfulness of such temptations than when reading tills tragic story: Some years after the overthrow of Napoleon a banquet was being given In London to the British officers who had fought under Welling ton at Waterloo. During their dinner the old commander, then the most hon ored mnii In England, took out of his pocket a beautifully Jeweled snuffbox which had been presented to him by his sovereign. In order that bis com panions in arms might see it lie passed it down the table. A short time after Wellington asked where It was. and no one could find it. The Jeweled snuffbox bad disappeared. Of course nil the offi cers present felt that there was a thief among them. Some one proposed that the doors hi; locked and every one searched. Much to the surprise of the company, an honored ex-colonel of a line regiment refused to be searched. Evidence, of course, pointed to him as the guilty man, hut on account of old associations’sake Wellington let him go. That night when the great duke wa; undressing for bed much to his sur prise he found the Jeweled Kiiufflioy In his pocket, it had not been stolen. He had absentmlndedly thrust it into-) his pocket. At once Wellington order- oil his carriage and rode to tiic resi dence of the suspected colonel. In and out of the streets lie went until his coachman drew up before a poor tene went house Wellington climbed tht rickety stairs and found his old com pauion living in poverty and squalor He threw his arms about the colonel's ueck and begged his pardon. Then hi said, “Colonel, why did you not let us search you and free you from the sus picion of tin* theftV” “Because,” an sweretl the col »nel, “though 1 am poor I am very proud. My wife .‘mil chil dreu have not had enough to eat foi months. Meat they have not had I'm a week. And while you were eating I slipped the meat off ray plate and liio It in my pockets, that they might eat it after I reached home.” Ah, the temptations of sin, which must eon tlnually abide with such starving nieii and the homeless! God is going tc judge such sinners differently from the way he will condemn our sins Like Lot’s wife, we have had out physical necessities supplied. Aye, ai most all of us have had more than tin- necessities. God has given to us many luxuries as well. When we entered into sin we went there to seek pleas ure, and not for the necessities of food and clothing. We sinned because wr wanted to sin, and not because in one sense we felt we had to sin to live. The TralnliiK Lot'** Wife IIml. Like Lot’s wife, are we? Most of us- aye, all- have felt the gospel inspiration of n Christian home. I know not wheth er tills woman was born in a godly cradle and reared in a pious home. I know not whether in her younger days%| she was taught to say her evening prayers at her mother’s knee. But I do know that as soon as she married she was taken to a godly home. Lot. her husband, was Abraham’s foster child and nephew. Ills father died when Lot was very young. Abraham and Sarah had no children; therefore they adopt ed this orphan—his mother was evi dently dead—and brought him up as their own son. No sooner did Lot bring home ids young bride than, methinks, 1 can see this old gray haired patriarch Abraham welcome her to his home. I can see him place his hand upon her head and say: "My child, 1 welcome thee in the name of the Lord. I wel come thee as my daughter.” Methinks I fan see Sarah take the young girl in her arms and press her to her heart and place a holy kiss upon her fresh young Ups. That night, as usual, the aged couple have family prayers. Lot and his bride kneel by the old folks’ side. Step by step Lot’s wife is taught to trust God and to live for Cod and to he one of God’s little children. She is not a cannibal on the Kongo, taught from her Infancy that the best banquet she can have is the quivering flesh of a captive whom her husband has brought home in chains. She Is not an Aztec Indian, who thinks the best of fering she can make to God Is the bleeding heart of a human sacrifice torn out from the ribs of a pleading suppliant. She is a child of the cove nant, having lived at least for years amid the highest and noblest of godly surroundings. She was destroyed he cause she refused to obey the teach ings of God which she learned from her father-in-law and mother-in-law. Lot’s wife’s doom awful, you say. Yes, but shall not God condemn more severely those who have deliberately wandered forth into the ways of sin and who have once lived in Christian homes than those who have never heard the name of Jesus except in bias pliemy? Shall not God more severely grass was rich and the pasture good. But reading between the lines I think I can tell other reasons for the choice. That night when the great shepherd en campment D asleep I see the lights burning in Lot’s tent. I hear a woman in earnest conversation with her hus band. She is talking about like Mils: "Lot, what is the g<>od of our living in a teid all our lives? We have lots of sheep and horses and cattle. We are rich. We can do what we like. Y’ou can let the overseers look after the herds. Take life easy and have some fun. Why not go down to Sodom and mingle in the society of wealthy and refined and aristocratic people? Our girls are growing up. They need a ‘coming out’ party. Oh, 1 know there are bad people living down there, but because they are bad we do not neces sarily have to be very bad. Besides, Lot, don’t you remember those big merchants of Sodom w%> stopped with us last year on their way to Damas cus? Their wives were charming peo ple. They moved in the best society. They asked me to come to Sodom to live, and they would introduce me to their friends. Come, let us go and. live iu Sodom! The grass is good in the plains of Jordan. There we can find good pasture for the flocks and herds and have lots of pleasure besides." And Lot and his wife went to live iu Sodom. Wily? Why They Went to Sodom. Can you find one circumstance, one ground for hope of spiritual develop incut; that could have induced Lot and ids wife to go to live in Sodom or Gomorrah? What Pompeii and Herculaneum were to the ancient Romans these vile cities were to the inhabitants of the east. Their sins were so vile and awful and debauch ing that no public teacher of this day dare mention them or write them for print. Today as you walk among the ruins of Pompeii you see the most re volting and disgusting pictures paiut- the “city of death?” “An old Chris tian legend,” says Dr. Baxendale, “tells us that the mountain of Calvary can he compared to a high mountain, on the | top of which is a palace filled with all treasures gold, gems, singing birds, a paradise of pleasure. Up its sides men ! and women are climbing to reach the tot), but every one who looks back is ! tnrne ! into stone. And yet thousands j of evil spirits are around the climbers, - wld'i or tg. shouting, flashing their! 1 r m 'tiros, singing their love songs to 1 eriw t! "ir eyes from the palace at the: 1 >•> anil to make them look hack.” Such , L 1 be I' -a.ry of your Christian life. Li o Lot's wile, ai started away from | Sodom. Y’ou hog; n to climb the hills of safety. But you looked back. Y’ou j fatally looked back. My apostate j friend, can it be. after you have once startl'd for the "city of God,” that you ' I will linger longer by this “city of death?" Can it be that a second call, and perhaps a last call, is not coming to you in this morning’s sermon to seek the divine safety? Will you heed the call today? A Duly to OtherN. But I cannot close these suggestions without one more thought. Christian church members having fled from the “city of destruction,” will you not try to persuade others to flee with you? Y’ou must wish to be saved; yes, but you must also try* to save others. If Lot’s wife had by the power of the Holy Spirit saved ten others she would have saved all in the evil cities of the plain. If all of us who are professing Christians will save ten each year for Christ It will not ho long before the glory of the Lord shall cover the earth, even as the waters cover the seas. Is that too much to ask? Less than one soul a month for Christ. Is that too much to ask? It is not too much if you and I heart and soul have consecrated our lives for the service of our Master. If we each save ten souls a year for Christ we can save Sodom. When God ed upon the walls, which prove how ! determined to exterminate the cities of the plain Abraham said: “O Lord, wilt thou destroy the righteous with the wicked? If there are fifty righteous, wilt thou save Sodom for the fifty’s sake? If forty-five, for the forty-five's sake? If ten. for the ten righteous’ sake?” Then the Lord said. “Y’es, I will save Sodom for ten righteous’ sake.” So Abraham arose from his knees and In all probability said: “Now I will go down to Sodom and visit my niece and her chief friends. I will get all the names of the people with whom she is identified in religious work, and I will save that whole towui from destruction for the ten righteous’ sake.” The old man comes to the city. He is welcomed by his aristocratic foster daughter. lie says to her. “My child, where live the godly people whom you have led to repentance?" “Why. un cle,” she answers, “to tell the truth. I do not know if any of my neighbors and society friends are servants of God. Y’estorday I was at the great .•harlot race, but there we only talked horse. Last night we went to a dance, but there we only talked dress and gossip. Last week I attended court, hut there we only talked polities. I do not know If even there are ten right eous people living in Sodom. Dur ing all the years 1 have lived here I have not brought one of my friends to God.” Is I.ot’s wife's answer your an tin' inhabitants of the aristocratic sub urbs of Rome gloried in their bestiali ties. Such were the inhabitants ot Sodom. They made no pretense to de ceucy. They not only sinned, but they gloried in their sins. They published | those sins everywhere. They practic ed them openly. Y’et that was the place where Lot and ids wife, witli their two daughters, deliberately de ruled to dwell after they had left the sweet, holy fellowship of Abraham’s home. My brother, my sister, are your companions today evil companions? Are they men and women who sin and sin openly? Are they inhabitants of the evil cilies of the plain? Man, how is it about that club? 1 do not say all men's clubs ure had. But some certainly are hud. is your club made up of Christian members? Wlieu you go there do you feel you are honoring < 'hrist? Do you ever hear the lewd Joke, the vile story, the drunken hiccough, there? Do you as sociate there with men who ure ueg lecting their homes and who are ue- cU'tomed to speak lightly of woman’s purit.i and Ihe sacred nobility of moth erhood? \\ ife, how is it with your as sociates? For years you have been struggling to get into "society.” What "society?” Tne “society” of Sodom or of Nazareth? The "society” of wives and daughters who are trying to make tiie world better through Christ or the “society" of avowed worldlings? Why oudeinn you and me for our sins than | ,i;,i Lot's w ife long to associate with ihe sinful inhabitants of the cities of the plain? Why are you, O men and women, struggling to associate with people who care no more for your .'hrist than for Buddha or Mohammed or Confucius or I’lato? An* your asso ciates today made up of a gambling, drinking, card playing, dancing, Sab bath breaking and God dishonoring set? If you are deliberately compan ioning with such associates you are like loot’s wife, living with the wicked in the evil cities of the plain. Why He Looked Back. Now we come to the great climax of these symbols. Lot’s wife was half way converted. She was in exactly the same position as you were when you lost your baby. Y’ou knelt by that casket and said, “O God, give me hack my baby!" God said to you: "Daughter, 1 will give you back your baby If you will flee that ‘city of sin.’ I have taken your hahy as a beautiful flower growing by the sinful quag mires and the worldly destructive mi- asmal swamps. I have plucked her and planted her in the beautiful flow er garden of heaven near to the river of life. If you will live as my child and turn your buck upon sin you can come into my heavenly gardens and lift again your dear one as a rose of Sharon to your lips.” Then you said: “Lord, 1 will come! I will come!" Or you are like Lot’s wife because you were a few years ago in the surgings of a great revival. It may have been in a village or city church. The reli gious movement as a great tidal wave he would our companions in evil whose mothers were like Delilah. Jezebel or Rahab Instead of like Sarah or Esther or Ruth? Indeed, so strong is the iu- flueuce of our parental Obiistiau homes that they are tugging at our hearts today in spite of present sins. We cannot drown their echoing calls if we would. Inllfipiice of the Old Home. Some time ago a dear friend of mine was out iu a mining town. There at that time was a miner noted for his sins. Gambler, drunkard, blasphemer and peddler of filthy stories was he. My friend met him one day and said: "Are you as had a man as you make out to be? Y’ou say you are going home this spring to visit your mother. Will you get drunk tlwre as you do here? Will you tell her the vile stories you tell here?” The man looked at my friend a moment and then said: “No, sir! I would sooner cut off my right arm than let my mother or my sisters see me as I am. I came from a Chris tiau home, and the old truths which were taught me there are still plead ing with me to be a good Christian man." Oh, my friends, when Lot’s wife went astray she did not sin In ignorance. Like ourselves, she once lived in a godly home. Like yonder miner, she had. as we have, the pray ers of her pious loved ones pleading with her to keep pure upright, as she ought Will you continue to Christian teachings of days? and true and to have been, disregard the your youthful swer? Church members, will you not during the next year at least try to bring ten Immortal souls to Christ? Is It too much to ask? Lot’s wife could have saved Sodom. The Christian peo ple of this country can bring this city and this state and this nation to Christ if they each will bring ten souls a year to Jesus. Is it too much to ask for Christ? Ten souls per year for each member. Is it too much to ask for Christ? [Copyright, 19(6, by Louis Klopsch ] But do the lessons of Lot's wife end I swept over that community and car ried your brothers, your sisters, your wife, your children, upon the Rock of j Ages hi the midst of die great sea of sin. Y’ou were at that time mightily moved. You turned to flee from th.* “city of destruction," as the inhali Hunts of 1‘ompell tied when old Yesu vius was belching forth her stream of hot lava and lighting the heavens as with the destructive flames of hoil; hut, like Lot’s wife, after you had | started away from your old compan ions of sin and your evil haunts yon began to soliloquize. Y’ou said to your self: “What is the good of my running away from in? Can’t 1 look hack and enjoy the sight just for once? Cannot 1 go back and have one more carnival with evil?”* As Lot’s wife looked back after the angel of God had told her to flee with her husband and daugli ters from the “city of sin” you looked hack, and you were lost. Oh. friends, can it he, after you have once startl'd for the "city of God," that you will look back longingly toward here? No. Drawing near today to the Abrnhamle encampment we hear a great strife and turmoil. The herdmen of Lot and the herdmen of his uncle are iu hitter stiife. Perhaps the cause of the quarrel was down at the well when the men were drawing water. Perhaps the struggle was due to one shepherd persisting in Ids claims that ho had a right to all the grass in one valley. Anyway, the row was on, and the em ployees appealed to their masters for settlement of the diflh ulty. Thai even ing Abraham an 1 his foster son deter mined to part. They came to the con clusion that as 'their flocks were sa groat and the pasture so scant they had hotter separate and each go his own way. But Abraham, with the one parental spirit, said to his foster son: "My boy, you can have your choice of the land for . >ur future home. Then, after you ha\ * made your selection, I will make mine.” Then wind happens? The Bible says Unit IaU went to Sodom because the These Warm Days Make all of us feel the need of a good tonic that will cleanse our blood of impurities and cure “that tired feeling.” Hot Springs Blood Remedy Will Do It. it It is a blood purifier and blood builder. 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The color of the pa goda Is dark red, with splashes of black and gold. Instead of the customary antique hells which fringe a pagoda’s curled up eaves as they rise one above the other, strings of electric lights now outline this royal building. The pagoda is sup plied with beautiful stained glass win dows done by a French artist after Tapanese designs. The walls are cover ed with lacquer panels decorated with ivory and gold, and the various rooms contain some rare bronzes. Upon the death of the king the pagoda will be come the property of the nation. Advertising is called by some an art. If it be an art it is the art of telling a story simply and convincingly. Nobody knows more about the strong qualities of an establishment than the proprietor who oversees it. Other things being equal, nobody should be able to write more convinc ingly of the articles he of fers for sale. In • store where the employer sells goods side by side with his clerks It is me that the employer will not be the best salasmon. The reason issimple. He knows the goods from A to Z. He probably has pur chased them. He knows his aims. His arguments carry weight because they are convincing. The same arguments pre sented in the same way, with the same enthusiastic spirit, the same knowledge of detail, would attract new customers if presented through the advertising col umns of this paper. If you have not triad it, why not begin? It you have tried it and are not fied, let us know about U. A Tonil* of Treaaarea. Theodore M. Davis, the Egyptologist, has found a tomb which has never been visited or plundered since the age of the eighteenth dynasty and is still filled with the royal treasures of a time when Egypt was the mistress of the east and the source of its supply of gold. When the entrance to tin* tomb was first opened it was evident that it hail been entered by robbers shortly after its construction; that, having been sur prised in their work of plunder, they had fled, leaving in the vestibule sonu of the objects they had stolen. When the tomb Itself was opened in the pres once of the Duke of Connaught and his suit n marvelous sight met the eyes Mummy cases incrusted with gold, huge alabaster vases of exquisite form, chairs and boxes brilliant with paint and gilding, even a pleasure chariot, with its six spoked wheels still cov ered by their wooden tires, were lying plied one upon the other In bewildering profusion. FOR Up-to-Date Job Print ing, call at tho LEDGER Office. Gaffney, S C. ^