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\ Thousands Hare Kidney Trouble and Don't Know it. How To Find Out. „ Fill a bottle or common glass with your water and let it stand twenty-four hours; a sediment or set tling indicates an , unhealthy condi tion of the kid neys; if it stains your linen it is evidence of kid ney trouble; too frequent desire to pass it or pain in the back is also convincing proof that the kidneys and blad der are out of order. What to Do. There is comfort in the knowledge so often expressed, that Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp- Root, the great kidney remedy fulfills every Wish in curing rheumatism, pain in the back, kidneys, liver, bladder and every part of the urinary passage. It corrects inability to hold water and scalding pain in passing or bad effects following use of liquor, Ine or beer, and overcomes that unpleasant necessity of being compelled to go often during the day, and to get up many times during the night. The mild and the extra ordinary effect of Swamp-Root is soon realized. It stands the highest for its won derful cures of the most distressing cases. If you need a medicine you should have the best. Sold by druggists in 50c. and$l. sizes. You may have a sample bottle of this wonderful discovery and a book that tellsi more about it, both sent] (absolutely free by mail, ■address Dr. Kilmer & Home of Swamp-Root. ‘Co., Binghamton, N. Y. When writing men- 'tion reading this generous offer in this paper. Don’t make any mistake, but re member the name, Swamp-Root, Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp-Root, and the ad- dress, Binghampton, N. Y., on every bottle. NOTICE! We want every man and women in tb» United States Interested in the cure oft -Opium, Whiskey or other drug habits, either for themselves or friends, to have •one of Dr. Woolley’s books on these dla- eases. Write Dr. B. M. Woolley, Atlanta, -Oa., Box 287, and one will be sent you free. By Rev. Frank De Witt Talmatfe, D.D. Un-to-Date Market Your Heat on Ice. :S vift’-i tins, *>m u:i, Isiu’ cured Hams with skin taken off, sliced thin, for breakfast, or some nice Pork chop or Pork Steak, or some fine Kansas City Beef, good and mellow, or Cher okee Beef. Just as you like. Plenty of Irish Potatoes, Danish Cabbage, Onions and Sets, Country Produce when it can be got. Heavy and Fancy Groceries. Apples, Oranges, Lemons, Beans and Peas, white and colored. Fresh Fish Fridays and Saturdays. Can fill your whole bill at our place. Goods delivered on time. Yours for business, w. JMeomiviv Phone No. 6o.“» Residence No. 23. K Host Anything "And a little of everything is now being shown in my line: All the new conceptions and fads . : : ..InlThe Jewelry Line., From the cheapest worth having] to "the very finest specimens and grades. Re pairing done by an Expert.] Thos. H. Westrope, Next to Shuford & LeMaster. TBS "BOSS” COTTON PUSS! SUIPIEST, STROKtEST, BEST Thb Murray Ginning Syrtkm Gina, FeMert, CootfetiMr*, Etc. GIBBES MACHINERY CO. Celwmbia. S. C. MURRAY SS IRON r~p SELMIXTURE H r ^Z BNow!]is^the time to^ take a spring tonic. *lBy far the best thing to take 18 !Vtarray'nJlrou)Mixture. It makes pure blood and gets rid of that tired feeling. ^At all drug stores addUH t-.J AOo a |Ir-Ja111 e» ©redirect from The MiirnyiDrug Co., Columbia, S. C. Los, Angeles, Cal., Aug. 18.—In this sermon the preacher shows that if the church ever means to win the world for Christ It must be true to Its pro fessions, collectively and Individually. The text Is Solomon’s Song vl, 10, “Terrible as an army with banners.” Difficult Is It “to keep sweet and keep moving,” as a poet once wrote—diffi cult not to look upon the dark side of life and "be Impressed by the mean nesses and the contemptibleness of men rather than by man’s good quali ties and by his nobilities. Almost all people every day of their lives have some Injustices or selfishnesses prac ticed upon them. Unless very careful we are prone to become pessimistic and to entertain disparaging views of our fellow men. It may be that the conduct of some with whom we come In contact leads us to think them as worthless as that man whose life Paul Boyton saved a few years ago. Mr. Boyton was spending a few weeks In Atlantic City, on the New Jersey coast. One day the cry of “Help!” was raised. A bather who was a very wealthy man had been swimming far out be yond the life lines. Caught in the cur rents, he was being swept out to sea. Mr. Boyton at once Jumped into the water and at the peril of his own life brought this millionaire to shore In an unconscious condition. Next day the rescued man hunted up Paul Boyton. Alexander the Great conquered the Persian empire?’ Oh, no, but It does aay, "Who lu she that cometh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun?” Thus the first great es sential of the conquering church of Christ to which I would call your at tention la that she must be “clear as the sun.” That means, as all the light and all the heat of the earth come from the great orb which rises In the east, so all the teachings or tenets or beliefs or creeds of the conquering church must radiate from the Sun of Righteousness, the risen Christ. Christ must be the center, the circum ference, the nadir, the senith, the be ginning and the ending and the all of that conquering church or there shall be no triumph ahead of her. What the rising sun Is to the natural world the Sun of Righteousness Is to the spirit ual world. Hlsrhev Rose the fan. A true conception of Jesus Christ Is as necessary to the church as is the sun’s radiance to the earth. Can not you grasp It? Cannot you discern It in the beautiful panorama you wit nessed many years ago, when you arose one morning very early on Mount Washington to see the sun rise in old New England? You went forth In the darkness and took your position on Sunrise point. The whole world seemed dead as you left the hotel pi azza. The servants were asleep. The night clerk or the watchman was the only person around to speak to you. The trees, tall and grim in outline, seemed like gigantic highwaymen, with their black hats drawn down over their foreheads and their black cloaks thrown about their shoulders, under which they were concealing the fatal dirks. Off In the distance by the dim light of the stars you could see the mountains sinking lower and still leav er as stepping stones leading to a gi gantic throne. Slowly, almost Imper ceptibly, the light of the stars dwin dled and the blackness of the night was changed into a dull gray. Then the tops of the eastern hills became rim After thanking him for what he had done he took out of his pocket a big with a golden covering. The sun’s roll of bills. He turned them over and head lifted Itself as though one of the over. Then he put the bills back Into huge rocks, touched by God’s finger, his pocket. Not one was small enough had been changed into a huge, living for his fancy. Then he took out a coal. Higher and higher rose the sun, fifty cent piece and handed It to the as the glowing headlight of the oncom- rescuer. “What Is that for?” asked the j locomotive off In the distance is great swimmer. “Why, for saving my i 8e en coming out of a llooslc tunnel, life.” “Oh!” said Boyton. Then the Lukes become burnished mirrors of swimmer took out his own pocketbook light, and the mighty sea off in the dis and counted out 40 cents and handed tanee becomes a reservoir of light, them back to the millionaire. “Here | imd the rivers, as parts of a great is your change,” said he. “For what?” network spread at your feet, be- "Why,” said Boyton, "you have over- come silver threads. The heavens drip paid me. Any millionaire like you | with light and the earth Is flooded who would offer a man 50 cents for saving his life has a soul so mean and small that It Is not worth more than a l>enny, If It Is worth even that.” It was the reproof of a Justly Incensed man. But we have to beware lest uu- with It. The birds begin to sing and the cocks begin to crow. Off In the distance the farmery are seen starting for the fields and the cattle for the pasture. The sun has at last risen, and morning has lighted her many con- der provocations similarly coutemptl- flagratlons. “Who Is she that cometh ble we come to entertain too low an forth as the morning, fair us the moon estimate of human character as a | and clear as the sun?” Cannot you whole. ; grasp It? The church, the conquering Penaimintio view*. j church—the church, clear In her di- The pessimistic way kt which some vine beliefs, clear lu her conception of of us regard men Is very similar to the Jesus Christ! In order to have n con- FOR Up-to-Date Job Print ing, call at the LEDGER Office. Gaffney, S. C. estimate some of us place upon the spiritual movements of the day, espe cially those which find expression In the-work of the church of the Lord Jesus Christ. Wo try to honestly and intelligently read "the signs of the time.” There we find much to dis courage us. We do not see the chil dren of this generation loving the word of Cod and the house of God as did the fathers and mothers of the past generation. We find our Sabbaths look ed upon us holidays Instead of holy days. We find the “golden calf” the shrine at which the human race is anxious to worship and that the saloon is being Intrenched everywhere. We find the Bible being driven out of our public schools and that many of our state colleges have men In their pro fessorial and presidential chairs who never darken the doors of the church and whose whole Influence, direct and indirect. Is to lead their students Into the paths of “free thought” and not Into the paths converging at the feet of the Lord Jesus Christ. "Yes,” some of you say, “It Is all well enough to talk about a coming millennium, but where are the signs of Its coming? The world Is growing darker and darker. This Is not a spiritual land of the midnight sun, but one of midday blackness. Everythlngsplrltually seems to be going askew.” Is It, my brother? I would not have you take such a de pressed view of things. I am today going to take my stand upon the proph- ecy of my text. I urn not only going to show you a vision of a conquering church In the years to come, but a con- quering church In the years that are now at hand. Because Paul Boyton saved the life of a millionaire who offered him a fifty cent piece for his service It does not follow that all men are misers and ungrateful. Because the morning sun for some of us seems to be obscured by the fog banks of mist, that does not prove that these mists shall never be cleared away. Listen to the prophecy. “Who Is she that looketh forth ns the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun and terrible as an army with banners?” exclaims the sacred writer. “This Is the church,” comes the answer. “This the conquering church of the Lord Jesus Christ, which shall usher In the millennial morn of a Saviour’s earthly enthronement” The future of the conquering church. In the first place, is not to be estimated by the myriad numbers of her soldiers, nor the costliness of her barracks, nor the lofty altitude of her watchtowers, nor the Inexhaustible gold of her treas ury, nor the sharpness of her steel weapons. The text does not ask, “Who Is she that cometh forth, leading on an armed host like that with which the Invading conqueror, King Darius, overthrew the Babylonian walls, or like that with which Xerxes bridged the Hellespont, or like that with which querlug church we must hold fast to Christ as the alpha and omega, the beginning and the ending, which Is and was and which Is to come, the al mighty and omnipotent Christ. The conquering church must be clear in reference to her belief in the atone ment. What the sun rising lu the east and setting in the west is to the natural world the Sun of Righteous ness is to the conquering church. Look and Live. Do not Christ’s own words prove that the more we exalt him the more we shall conquer In his dear name? Read his promise as recorded in the twelfth chapter of oohn, “And I, If I be lifted up. will draw all men unto me.” What does that mean? You find the connec tion between that statement and an other lu the third chapter of the same book, “As Moses lifted up the serpent In the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up.” Methinks I am wandering about In the Israellt- Ish camp in the "land of Edom.” On account of the sinful dissatisfaction of the people God has sent them the plague of serpents. We can hear their hiss ever} where. The people with clubs and swords and spears are kill ing the serpents by the hundreds and the thousands, but the more they kill the more the serpents seem to spring up. Suddenly one of these serpents buries Its fangs in the naked leg of a man on the outskirts of the camp. "Come,” cry his companions, “come and look at the brazen serpent which Moses lias lifted, and you shall live.” But the deadly poison Is doing Its work. Like a man benumbed -by the blizzard’s cold and determined to lie down In the snowdrifts and sleep, this Hebrew wants to He down and sleep the sleep of death. “Let me alone,” he mutters, “let me sleep.” Ills friends rouse him. They beat him to keep up the circulation. But It does no good. Bleep he will. Then, by main force, as a drowning man Is pulled out of the surf, they drag him over the sand tc the foot of tho brazen serpent ”0 God,” they cry, “Is It too late? Will he not open his eyes and look? Man, you are dying! Look, look and live!’ At last, as lu a drowning stupor, he halfway opeus his eyes and looks. A tremor, a life giving tremor, shoots through his body. He has looked, and he will live. Ho, my friend, the churcb of the liOrd Jesus Christ Is to be n conquering church when she lifts hlgfc the Cross. To that Cross we must lend, and. If necessary, even drug those who are drugged and poisoned and stupefied by their sins. That does not mean that we should make a shrine out of a sec tarian creed; that does not menu that we should struggle to make Episcopalians out of Methodists or Presbyterians out of Baptists, but It does tman that w« shall bring men and women, benumbet' by sin, no matter bow far they have wandered away from God, back to a Saviour’s love and a Saviour’s redemp tion. Hear ye not the divine assur ance, “And I, if I be lifted up, will draw all men unto me?” O God, give us a conquering church, clear as the sun. Make the light of our church shine from the loving, pardoning eyes of Christ, who has died that sinful man might live. “Clear as the snn”—aye, clear as theSun of Righteousness, which will scatter every black mist out of the dark night of ever}’ sinful horizon. An Invadlnir Army. But we cannot picture the conquer ing church as a great Invading army, with her banners flying In the winds and her soldiers singing their hallelu iahs of triumph as they tramp along, until we find her “fair as the moon” as well as “clear as the sun.” The “queen of night” here offers her symbols as well as the "golden chariot of the day.” The moon has Just as much a part to play with the advancing hosts of the conquering church as has the clearness of the sun. As the children of Israel were led through the wilderness in the long Journey of forty years by the pil lar of fire as well as by the pillar of cloud so we now find the “fair moon” and the “clear sun” are concomitants. They must move along side by side. They must continually be seen at the same time by a watching world. The twain, as at a marriage altar, must In deed become one in life. “Oh.” some one says to me, “but that Is impossible. You cannot have the sun and the moon shining at the same time. When we were children back on my father’s farm we used to have moonlight sleighriding parties. We would wait until the sun had set Then we woukl have supper. Thou the big sleighs, with their heavy robes, would be driven up. About 8 or 0 o'clock over the eastern hills the pale faced moon would arise. With her mellow light she would flood the valleys and the white robed trees. Then over the crisp snow the runners would slide, the bells would Jingle, the dogs would bark and the merry songs would be sung. But we would not expect a moonlight ride and a sunlight ride at tho same time.” Perhaps not, my friend. But though we cannot see the sun and the moon rise and set at the same time, if you have ever camped upon the heights of old Greylock. of the Berkshire hills, In the early hours of the morning, you would have seen the sun rise before the moon has set. Together, for a time, they sit upon their thrones lu the heavens, as King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella together governed the kingdoms of Castile and of Aragon. Now, where does the moon gather ber light? I find this old earth stretch ing out her arms and warming her body by the blazing fires of the sun’s furnaces. When I think of the sun, I picture the old New England Puri tan coming out in the January snow- storm chilled and cold and hugging tho old fashioned andirons to get ' warm. But when I approach the moon I find she has no fires. Here 1 are only deep caverns and a burnt out grate. Then I cry out in amaze ment, “O moon, from whence cometh thy light?” “Man, I am not a blazing furnace like the sun,” I hear the moon 1 answer. “I am not simply u burnished mirror. All the light I have Is reflected back to earth, because the sun’s rays boat upon my sides.” Then I say to myself: “Oh, yes! I know what the old book means when It declares that the conquering church Is to be ‘clear as the sun’ and ‘fair as the moon.’ It means that the church of the Lord Jesus Christ shall conquer the world for Christ when she does two things: She must preach Jesus, and Jesus alone; secondly, all the members of that future church In their private lives must be reflecting the light of the gospel as found In the light of Jesus Christ.” Reflecting the Light. Must of us see this symbol to our own shame. O moon, thou fair cheeked, laughing eyed, golden lipped moon! O moon, thou beautiful queen of the night, who doth carry no lan tern, yet whose face Is aglow with light because the sun's rays have kissed thy forehead as the skin of Moses shone when he descended from Mount Sinai, after talking face to face with God! O moon, thou dear frieud, who kept vigil with me as I paced the ship’s deck under tho Southern Cross and bade thee carry messages of love to my dear oues 'by the moaning seas of an Atlantic coast! Is my life reflect ing the divine life of Christ as thou dost reflect the light of the sun? is every word I speak, every thought that Is cradled In my brain, every hope, every desire, every deed, an echo, a re flection of my Saviour’s life, who gave up his life that sinful man might live? The moon Is speaking to the church members today. With her mellowed light she Is signaling this message; "Church members, when you preach Christ and live Christ then Christ’s church shall be a conquering church.” Men and women, as church members, will you in the daytime be clear as the sun and In the night be fair as the moon, which God has sent as an evan gelist to us to. teach us the need of purity ? But we must not stop here. Having a clear voiced pulpit and a consecrated pew, what shall we find? At once the outside world will begin to crowd the church doors even as doves flee to their windows. The new converts will come to Christ by the hundreds and the thousands. There Is absolutely no doubt about It. The chief reason why men and women are not coming to Christ today Is because most of the men of tho world believe our profes sion of religion to bo a sham and a mockery. Give us a purified church and an honest and consistent church nembershlp and the new converts shall Towd the seats In such numbers that whole sommunities will be born In * day. A Personal Hlstorr* Never was I more Impressed with this conviction than on one occasion by the recital of a personal history of a great American minister whom I love . well. For some years he had been preaching in one of oiv southern cities. The church seemed to be spir itually dead. The people loved him with all the cordiality of the south and socially did everything for him; still he could not move them with the message of his Master. Qpe day a friend came to him and said: “Doc tor, the reason you cannot move this city for God Is not because the men of the world do not believe In the Saviour, but they do not believe In the men and the women wjio are mem bers of your church. Tour church people, they say, are no dKerent from any other kind of people. They gam ble, they drink wine, they dance, they go to the theater, their names are the most prominent among the society col umns of the city newspapers.” Then that friend told his pastor this story; Some of the chief members of the church had formed thenraelves Into a social club, to meet each week and play cards. Each member was to con tribute weekly so much money, and this money was to be taken by the hostess of the week and a prize was to bo bought, to be presented to the winner of the night. One week the hostess forgot to buy the tnrtze. In stead she took the money and piled It up on the center of the table, and the v. mer of the evening took the cash instead of the prize which ought to have been purchased. The winner that night was the president of the Christian Endeavor society of his church and the wife of one of the elders. “The history of that night’s *plny has gone all over the town,” said the informant. “Now, doctor, what is the difference between those women playing for cash and playing for a picture or a vase? They are gamblers any way you look at It.” My friend went Into bis pulpit next Sunday and told that story. In his sermon he sakl: “Friends, are not church members to be any different from the men and women of the world? Will you stand in the way of the spiritual success of this church by the worldliness of your own lives?” A mighty reaction set In. Those church members at once censed their worldli ness, their card playing, theater going, dancing and other destroying acts of sin. They gave themselves to God’s work. The result—a wave of spirit ual Influence swept over the city and the whole state. Men and women, shall we have this spiritual upheaval In our own churches? As a conquer ing army terrible with banners, shall this church membership move out upon this city? We can move thus If we consecrate our own lives. The sin ful world today Is not doubting Christ; It Is doubting our professions. We say, “I love God," yet we are not will ing to live for God. Reasons For Fallare. The scenes of a great church tri umph which shall yet be witnessed In our land If church members are true to their dlscipleshlp will be marvelously witnessed lu the triumphs of the church of the Lord Jesus Christ In foreign lands. The reason our foreigu missionaries are not accomplishing what they should Is not due to their lack of faithfulness and consecration. It is not due to any defect In the doc trine they are preaching. It Is due almost entirely to the sinful white man who enters heathen lands along side of the Christian missionary. With every ship that sets sail from our shores carrying the white man’s Bible there go «also the white man’s cask of whisky and the white man’s sins. If the white mun were true to God, It would not be fifty years, nor twenty years hence, before the whole world would be captured for Christ. If the white men were united for Christ this capture of the heathen lauds would be like the wonderful march of Napoleon Bonaparte when he laud ed on the French coast from the Island of Elba in February, 1810. He bad not with him even a corporal’s guard, but the French people believed In him. No sooner did the dethroned emperor start for his old capital than King Louis Philippe’s soldiers opened for him their fortresses. The people welcomed him in their streets. As a king coming hack to bis own he entered again his palace of the Tuileries. As soon as the church captures our own land for Christ foreign lands will welcome Christ. China will welcome him. Japan will receive him, Korea and India will receive him, Africa and South Amer ica and the Islands of the seas will re ceive him. “As an army terrible with banners” the church will march on to capture the whole world for Christ when we, as true Cbristiau disciples, purify her and do our duty by ber here at home. Now, my friends, as church mem bers are we ready to start forth tills church of ours as a conquering host? Are we ready to say, “Lord, like the moon reflecting the light of the sun 1 will from henceforth live for thee and reflect thee?” Are we ready to say, “Lord, I will give myself to thy service in mind and body and spirit, so that wherever I may go and whatever I do the world at large will say, ‘There goes one who has been communing with God,’ and I would have his peace and Joy?” Are you ready to do this, my brother? Then wherever you go you will find not a dead church, but a living church, for, like Peter at the beautiful gate, In the name of Jesu- Chrlst you shall make men who are spiritual cripples rise up and walk. May God move us church members, one and all, to resurrect this day our church for his glory and his honor int i the conquering host of an invincible army. I Copyright, IWV by Louis Klopach.] Sour Stomach No appetite, loss of strength, 1^. ness, headache, constipation, bad breath, general debility, sour rlalnga, and catarrh of the stomach are all due to Indlgaatlan. Kodol curea indlgeation. This new dlaoov* ery represents the natural Juicea of digs* lion as they exist In a healthy stomach, combined with the greatest known tonic and reconstructive properties. Kodol Dv» pepsla Cure doea not only cure indigaatloa and dyspepsia, but this famous remedy cures all stomach troubles by cleansing, purifying, sweetening and strengthening the mucous membranes lining the stomach. it Mr. S. S. Ball, of Ravanawood, W. Va., atyre— 1 was troubled with sour stomach for twenty years. Kodol cured me and we are now using It In milk forbeby.” Kodol Digests What You Eat. Bottles only. $1.00 Sire holding 2H times the trlsl size, which sells for 50 cents. Prepared by E. O. OeWITT * GO., OH 10AGO. Shoe Store Fit Your Feet One of the very important things in buying Shoes is the fit. This we study as well as value. Bringlyourfeet and let us fit them. We don’t p|ride our selves on cheap Shoes but good S ho^es at right prices. The R. S. Lipscomb Shoe Company I r»fy'!ghr ■rk'I'o Wame ■■! Your plctuiea lustfully and artistically and yet at a modeiate price is sometimes a problem. Permit us to solve It, We make :::::: PICTURE FRAMES And we frame pictures We carry a large stock of mouldings suitable for all kinds of pictures Prices range from 4 cts. per foot up. We will make and frame the pic ture or make tiie frame. The cost of framing will oe only s ightly higher. A few half-inch s.xlO oval frames in either ebony or gilt, fitted with glass and backs at 5o cents. : : : : : ■■■ JF line £1. CTsai'i' ■■■ No business can possibly be successful that is not adver tised. This is a sweeping statement, but it is true. There are iome merchants in this community whose experience apparently contradicts the statement. The contradiction, however, is only apparent. If they have attained any degree of success they have advertised. They have let people know what they had to sell, what they were here for and what they proposed to do. Just in proportion to the thorough ness with which they have done this and met the conditions of their competitors they have suc ceeded. If they have used the newspa pers they have worked with the best tools so far as getting pub licity is concerned. If they have worked without the newspapers they have been handicapped and have not attained the highest possible measure of success. A fertile seed planted in fertile ground, carefully watered, will thrive and bear fruit. A properly organized business, in any inhabited place, well advertised will succeed. The law of growth is as certain and inexon hie is one cess ss the other.