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Oil., July 30.—In this sermon the preacher draws the lesson of a gospel of good cheer and helpful ness and shows that Christianity bars no one from Innocent enjoyment. The text Is John II, 11, “This beginning of miracles did Jesus In Cana of Galilee.” Finding the rational causes for the Inception of things Is a passion In the human heart and mind. But next to It is the desire of making a right start when, after years of hard work and toil, we would give to the world the results of our labor and our investiga tion. When Henry M. Stanley came | from his exploration of the dark eon- tinent he did not let the facts thus I gained lie dormant In his mind. He at once headed toward tho great metropo lis of London. There, in Albert Me morial hall, before the representatives of the English throne and the greatest of scientists, he described the results of his daring Journey. What he did not tell by lip he told as soon as pos- by his pen. No F. Morse cry, as did the Greek mathematician, “Eureka! I have found it! I have found that a telegraphic message can he sent over the wires,” than at once he applied to tho American congress to help him build a line from Baltimore to Wash ington. He would prove to all the world, in the best and most emphatic ! way, telegraphy was to he classed I among the “found arts.” I enter a great artist’s studio. I say to Jean Francois MiUet, “What are you working so hard about?” “Oh,” he ' says, “I have consecrated my life to ^ a new mission of art. I used to he United States Interested in the cure of noted for the skill with which I ap- Oplum, Whiskey or other drug hablts,i pealed to the lowest passions of life— •either for themselves or friends, to have ; . .. , . ... ,,, ,1 one of Dr. Woolley’s books on these dls- desires of the world thr igh eases. Write Dr. B. M. Woolley, Atlanta, suggestive figures of the nude. I heard Ga..Box287,andonewlllbesentyoufree. Bome bystanders looking at one of my pictures say, ‘It is too bad that Millet, with such a genius ns he has, paints pictures like that!’ I at once left Paris and went back to my old home. There among the hamlets of France I began to study the pure beauties to be found In the face of my old grandmother. Now I am trying as an artist to depict the homely virtues of the French peas ants. As tills Is my first peasant pic ture to he sent to the French salon, I want to make my mark in my new field, for when a man is to make a great success In any one Hue he must he very careful about his beginning. This is a hew beginning for me as a Christian artist.” To make a right be ginning for his new art—his Christian art—Tissot, the former artist of the ^ French society women, secluded him self for years in the Holy Land that he : might walk and live amid the scenes ! where Christ lived and died. As a 1 Christian artist he wanted to make a | right beginning. \ Hi-ziil DecrtnnliiK. The desire to make a right begin ning is Implanted in every one’s life i wh . starts upon a great career for the rct'orinatiuii of the customs and the habits of tiie world. Thus, when I be gan to think upon this subject, this miracle at the beginning of Christ’s ministry began to‘grow and widen and deepen and lift itself higher and high er in the purposes of Jesus Christ. Why? If was Christ’s first miracle. For thirty long years he led the life i of obscurity. Now Jesus comes forth and 'practically says: “I have come to reveal my 1 ather to the world. I want t<> win the bt lief and trust of the i>eo- ple. How shall I begin my work In the most attractive and Impressive way? 1 will do it at the wedding in Cana of Galilee.” Thus we must ap proach our subject with awe and rev erence. Tlds miracle Is not a mere happen so. The first miracle of Christ was one by which we may catch the keynote for tho onward musical move ments of a perfect life. Where does tho active scend of Christ’s earthly ministry open? At a nuptial song. At a time of Joyful fes tivities. At a time when not only the young but also the old and the middle aged are trying to he happy and to make every one happy. At a time when laughter and merriment and good cheer are making tired men and women feel for a time at least that 1 care and worry and anxiety and dis trust have no part to play in the great social economy. Tho celestial song which was sung on the morning of the Nativity was no more Joyful in note 1 than the songs we hear ns we come over the hols and see the wedding party dancing upon the grass upon the outskirts of the Galilean village of Cana. Would you have me describe the Joy of a wedding festival I once witnessed in the east? I did not see It at Cana; 1 did see It, however, at one of the neighboring towns of Galilee. First I ■found the wedding guests came from far and near, as they once came to W estover, where Colonel William Byrd, lawyer, statesman and landed gentleman, married his daughter to a distinguished representative of Vir ginia’s aristocracy, or to Mount Ver non when Martha Washington’s grand daughter, Eleanor Parke Custls, was married to young Major Lewis, or to Montlcello when the great Jefferson and the Randolph families became one at the marriage altar. There the guests Tin “BOSS" COTTON PUSS! SIMPLEST, STRONGEST, BEST Tmb Muss ay Cinnino System Gist. Feedert, Condenser*, Etc. GIBBSS MACHINERY CO. Colombia, S. C. MURRAY IRON MIXTURE Now is the time*to, take a spring tonic. By far the lies! tiling to take is Murnty'M Iron Mixture. It makes pure blood and gets rid of that tired feeHug. At all drug stores .*00 r-t I or direct from The Murray Drug Co., Columbia, S. C. F0LEYSH0NEMAR childrint safe, *«re. opiates came not only by the tens, but by the hundreds. Tho bridal home was full, and all the neighboring houses were crowded with the invited guests. A Week of Pentlvtt?. Then the ceremony was not finished by a few words mumbled off by a min ister and u quick scurrying away for the train by the bridal couple after a few grains of rice had been thrown. But days and sometimes even a week were given up to the festivities and to the hilarities. As 1 came over the hills toward this village I saw the maidens by tho score, with their hair decorated with flowers and their garments of the bright, gorgeous colorings of the east, shining in the sunlight. With their arms encircling each other’s waist they were as Miriam of old dancing over the greensward and singing in time with the moving feet. The young men came there with their fleet horses caparisoned with the finest trappings. There were games and feats of strength for the competitors at these festivals. At last, after days of frolic, came the wedding ceremony. Then came the great climax of all, the “wed ding supper.” Christ’s first miracle was performed at a season of social festivities. I am glad that Christ’s Nativity was announced to the world by the overture of song. I am glad that his first mira cle was performed at a wedding. I am glad we do not see Jesus at this time standing clothed in the skins of wild beasts, as was John the Baptist in the wilderness. Christ came, to tills wedding to mark ids approval of inno cent pleasure. “His attendance upon tho wedding in Cana of Galilee proves,” wrote Bishop Ryle, “that true religion was never meant to make man melan choly. There are times when it is law ful to be merry and rejoice.” The cal endar of the sinner lias only a few days of the year marked as festival days,’’ wrote Elon Foster, “but every day of the Christian’s calendar Is marked by the hand of God as a day of rejoicing.” Yes, by the echoing chimes of the wed ding bells we know it. By the joyful songs we hear today coming over tho Galilean liilis, in the chorus of which Christ’s words may lie blending, we believe it. Thank God. Christ’s first miracle was performed for a bride and not for a widow, at a banquet and not by a bier! Rejoice ihoush •terms aasall thee, rejoice when skies are bright, Rejoice though round thy pathway Is spread the gloom of night. If the good hope be In thee that all at last Is well. Then let thy happy spirit with Joyful tid ings swell. Where Christ’s Ministry Began. Christ’s ministry opens In a scene of human festivities. It does more than that. Christ oamo to Cana of Galilee to prove that the most Important place on earth this side of heaven is the mar riage altar. “Marriage,” wrote Dr. Taylor, “is the mother of the world and precious kingdoms and fills cities and churches and heaven Itself. Like a useful bee, it builds u house and gathers sweetness from every flower, and labors and unites into societies and republics, and sends out colonies, and feeds the worlds with delicacies, and obeys the king, and exercises many vir tues, and promotes the Interest of man kind, and is that state of good to which God hath designed the present consti tution of the world.” That Is, the right kind of marriage does all this. There fore, as marriage is so important in God’s sight and man’s, it is very essen tial. oh, young people, that, you ask Jesus Christ to your weddings when you are about to he married! Yet the strange fact remains that tho last be ing in the universe some of us would ever think of Inviting to our weddings is Jesus Christ. We treat Christ a great deal as some of us have treated our best earthly friends when giving a reception or a party. We take the calling list of our wives and grown daughters and sons, and we bunch them together with the names of our personal friends, both business and social. Then when the night of the entertainment comes around we say to ourselves, “Why is not Mr. So-and-so here?” Then we go to our wife and say: “My dear, Mr. So-and-so is not here. Did you invite him?" She looks at the list of guests and answers; “No, husband. We for got to put that name down.” “Too bad, too bad*” you say. Y’es, It is too had. But, though it is too had, this fact remains Incontrovertible. You did not neglect to invite that very wealthy man to your daughter’s wedding. Why? Because you expected him to give her a present. You did not for get to Invite that prominent statesman and social queen. Why? Because you expected them to give that wedding prominence in the newspaper. But you did neglect to Invite that old time friend who has been true to you for many, many years. Thus we often neglect to invite to our weddings Christ, who is our best of all friends. Too Late to Aak Advice. Not only do the young people often neglect to ask Christ to the wedding, but they very often neglect to talk to him and consult with him before they engage themselves for life. They treat Christ In reference to the coming en gagement a great deal as did a young indy many years ago her New England pastor. She came to Dr. Pelpin and said: “Pastor, I want to talk to you. I am in doubt whether I should marry Mr. 80-and so. 1 want your advice.” With that the kindly old minister look ed at her and said: "Well, my girl, when is the wedding to take place? Next week Tuesday?” “Oh, no,” Hlie answered. '“Not next Tuesday, but next Thursday.” So some people come to Christ to talk about their coming marital plans when they have 1 ade up their minds to marry whether God wants them to marry or no. These young girls will talk about their wed ding plans with other girls. They will talk about them to people who are al most strangers. But thej will not talk about them to Christ, wbo is more in terested in that coming wedding than any other being In the unlver. i, not excepting the bridegroom himself. Young folk about to enter into tbs nuptial state, will you nat ask Christ to your wedding? Will you not talk to him before the engagement ring is slipped over the slender finger of the left hand? Will you not by Christ’s help avoid the awful lifetime mistakes of wrong marital entanglements? Death Itself Is preferable to a wedding cere mony where Christ is not present to make tho hearts and spirits one as the law hinds together the physical twain as one. Some time ago the quick ring of my telephone called me to the Emer gency hospital. "Come quickly,” came the call. “A man is dying and wants to see you.” There I found a young man. by the name of Robert Duff, who had been caught in the live wires of an electric plant. He was burned so badly that his lower limbs were al ready dead. His mind was us clear us is yours or mine. He was talking to his fiancee, a sweet girl, who sat weep ing by his side. Within a few hours his body was a corpse in her arras. Oh, that was sad! But it r was not nearly so sad as if that young man had lived and they had been married In body, hut not in spirit. Better the dead body of the loved one in your arms than the cold corpse of a dead love, holding together a man and a woman by law and not in spirit. Christ’s pres ence at Cana of Galilee is a divine suggestion teaching that over every marriage altar should he a divine ben ediction. Talk to your Saviour about whom you are to marry and,then in vite Christ to your wedding, and you will make no marital mistakes. A Lennon From I he Mlrnele. Another lesson of the miracle is that nothing is too small or too insignificant to do if lojgthat act you are going to make your fellow men happier. This changing of water into wine was not done to heal the sick, or to raise tho dead, or to cast out the “devils,” which to the number of a legion were tortur ing the poor maniac amid the Gndarene tombs. It was done simply and pure ly to relieve the embarrassment of a host and hostess whose supply of wine for the marriage feast had run out. It was done to alleviate one of those little domestic troubles with which most of us have been conversant In the days of our own homes. Cannot you see those guests gather ing in the east in your own house? Your wife had made preparations for ten or twelve guests for dinner. There were just enough oysters, enough sal ads, enough squabs, enough figures of ice cream, for the invited quests, no more and no less. Suddenly, when you were about to be seated, the bell rang, and in came three or four friends from a distant city. You had to ask them to dine. There was no way out of it. Then your wife took you and the chil- dreu aside and said: “I don’t know how we will get through. We have not enough food for those extra guests. Now, you and the children have got to take turns in going without. Yon must refuse lu turn tho different courses. When tho plates are passed you must say, T do not want any, thank you.’ ” Of course all went well except with your youngest boy. The salad looked so good that when it was being passed lie said. “I want some, mamma.” Then her face flushed. She was embarrass ed. Every one in the room was em barrassed. Do you not recognize a mighty Christian lesson in the fact that Christ performed ids “first miracle” in order to relieve a little domestic flurry of the home? If I put myself in Jesus’ place I think I can imagine the scene which took place which led to his going to this wedding. Cana is only a few miles away from Nazareth, where Jesus was then living. There Is a tradition that this Cana bridegroom’s name was Cleo- phas, who was about to marry Mary’s sister. The mother of Christ is talk ing to Jesus. "Are you going to your aunt’s wedding?” she asks. “Oh, no,” is the reply. “I do not want to go. Weddings have not very much interest for me. But, mother, you go. I know you will have a good time, and I will send my aunt my love and benediction through you.” “But, my sou,” says Mary, “I do not want to go without you. You should go for the family’s sake as well as for mine.” “Well, mother,” he answers, “If you wish it, I will go.” Does not this statement boar out the strange wording of this chapter, “And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there, and both Jesus was called and his disciples to the marriage?” Why was Mary’s name here mentioned first if there was no reason for Christ going there to please his mother? Yes, I think I am not go ing beyond my right when I state that Christ went to the wedding, and he performed his “first miracle” there to tench us that nothing in life Is too small or too Insignificant to do if by that little act wo can bring happiness into some loving heart. Among Ilia Neighbors. Where was this “first miracle” per formed? In Cana. What does that mean? Christ started his earthly min istry among bis near neighbors and friends. Cana is only a short distance from Nazareth. He did not leave home and go among strangers to find a gos pel field. He began right among the friends and companions of his youth. In all probability there was not a guest at tills famous wedding who did not personally know him. Not a grown man or a grown woman was there hut had seen him a barefooted boy running over tho Zebulun bills. There was not among all those guests one who 1* d not felt the touch of hi-* personal 1^ 1 upon his or her life. Tills personal touch of Christ has to me a great lesson. The wonderful picture of the wedding In Cana of Galilee In the Parisian Louvre teaches it In more ways than one. There the old master has the laughing eyed maidens and the young men whlsi>ering their seerets in their ears. There the table is groan ing under the most tempting of dishes. There are the old folks and the chil dren. But there In that wedding scene the artist has assembled all the mem bers of his own family and nil his friends. His wife Is there. His mother Is there. Ills children are all there. Ills neighbors are there. Beautiful and suggestive fact Is that. It means as Christ performed his "first miracle” in Cana among his friends and neigh bors we must begin our earthly Chris tian service among those we love and hold dear. Do not be a gospel messen ger only to the heathen. Go and find your neighbors and talk to them about the atonement of the cross. Find the heathen at your very door. Ilf-Kin at Home. 'Hie further you go Into this premise the more powerful becomes the gospel lesson. Not only did Christ begin his public gospel ministry among his neighbors, hut he began that gospel ministry in a private way within the quietude of his own home. Maly, his mother, had felt this divine influence long before the outside world felt it and saw It in Cana of Galilee. How do I know? The Inference is clear from the chapter of my text. When the wine failed, Mary heard the women of the house talking together about the mishap. This would be most natural if th? bride to be was Mary’s own sis ter and Jesus’ aunt. What then hap pened? Why, Mary immediately went and told Christ. Then she said to the servants, “What he saith unto you do It." Do not these statements prove to you that Mary knew Jesus could ex tricate them out of their difficulties if he would? Ah, yes. Christ showed his divinity first in his home. It Is right and necessary for us to begin our ministry for Christ among our friends. It is not, however, more important to he a gospel messenger to our neighbors than a gospel messenger in private to our husbands, oifr wives, our parents, our children, In the quiet sanctity of our own homes. Christ was a divine Christ in a carpenter shop before lie was a divine Christ making the water blush crimson in Cana of Galilee. But we must-not circumscribe our gospel ministry to our homes and 0111 neighbors and our friends. We must not say, “Because Christ performed his first miracle at a wedding there fore we will only attend the weddings and the festivities of the young peo ple.” We have a greater mission than that. No sooner were these young folks married and started out in the world with gospel good cheer than Christ went forth into the world to continue that ministry. He went among the strangers. He went to those who cursed and derided and ulti mately slew him. He went to those who would have nothing to do with him. He went among the sinners and the outcasts to carry to them tho “bread of life.” lie went to Mary Magdalene and to the house of despised Zaccheus. Ho went everywhere where the sins of mankind were calling for the need of a Saviour. From amid the songs and tho merrymakings of tills nuptial ban quet will you and I carry the message of Christ to an outside sinful world? Will we preach Christ amid the cypress as well as amid the erange blossoms? Will we preach Christ under the moan ing. weeping willows as well as among tho singing multitudes of weddings of Galilee? "It Is better to go to the house of mourning than to the house of feasting." It is your duty to go to both places. But remember, oh. Chris tian. those who are preparing to enter another world and to lie married to death need you as much as those who are about to place upon their fingers the wedding ring of gold which will encircle that finger after the flesh has withered away in the grave. 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A Kansas City girl, according to the Times of that city, has the usu’l curi osity of her sex, especially about men whom she has Just met. Hhe ascer tains tho facts about them, too, by a simple method without subtleties. If she wishes to know a man’s business, whether he has mentioned It or not, she’ll ask, “What did you say your business is?” If it is his place of resi dence she wants to know she’ll ask, “Where did you say you live?” But she found u man one night re cently upon whom her method would not work. Ills reply has had ner curi ous ever since. It was at a sum 11 dance on the south side. Some of the girls were wondering what the busi ness of a “new” young man was. The girl with the method heard them talk ing and volunteered to find out. When the young man drew hear she asked: “What did you say your business Is, Mr. So-and-so?" He had not mentioned his business, and he knew It. With a perfectly sol emn face he replied; “I am a gig catcher for a geewobble- pede down in Walnut street, Miss Blank.” A Henry Jamee Retort. Though Henry James, the novelist, lives abroad, he Is very faithful to America and very proud of his fellow 1 countrymen. At the Athenaeum, of ' which classic club he is a member, Mr. James dined one evening with Joseph Chamberlain. Mr. James praised the English highly. He praised their dress, their manners, their country life and even their climate. Mr. Chamberlain listened attentively and gratefully. At the end he said, expecting a compli ment for Great Britain: "Mr. James, If you were not an Amor lean, what would you want to be?” “If I were not an American,” Mr. James answered promptly, “I'd want to he one.” “CSS’* Early Risers The famous little pills* OBSERVE Our Pictures closely ami it will be seen they are different in many ways fr'bm the productions of the ordinary galleries. 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