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Attorney-at-Law, Notary . In Office.
Office removed to New Bank Building.
WILLIAM S. HALL, JR.,
Attorney at Law,
National Bank Building,
Gaffney, S. C.
Prompt attention given to all business.
DR. W. K. GUNTER,
I> K T I « T
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Office in Star Theatre Building.
Phonk No. 20.
Crown and bridge work a specialty.
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Physician and Surgeon.
Offices in the Star Theatre building.
Dr. D. P. THOMSON,
Dentist.
Over Cherokee Drug Co. Phone 55.
fa .
J. F. GARRETT,
Dentist.
Office Over 1 The Battery.
’Phone 82
Calm age
ermon
By Rev.
Frank DeWitt Talmage, D.D.
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t mover W. U. Telegraph Office.
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ITor
Prom my prize-winners, R. I. Reds,
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PORTANT HAPPENINGS IN THE
STATE AND EVENTS OF INTEREST
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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
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Leopold's Chinese Pasoda.
One of King Leopold's rarest treas
ures is a genuine Chinese pagoda, built
at Laeken, close to his palace In Brus
sels. The tail tower, as well as the low
buildings which form the approach, is
a mass of gilding and beautiful carv
ing. The interior Is filled with some of
the finest specimens of Japanese art
that have ever found their way abroad.
The majority of these art objects and
nearly the entire pagoda were bought
by his majesty at the Paris exposition's
Japanese exhibit. 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.
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