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k J r, Wireless Telegraph Message Calm age Sermon By Pev. Prank DcWitt Talmage, D. D. f-3 a Awaits you at the store of The Gaffneyj Drug Company, free—all charges Ipaidjby us. It’s a] sample] of Rocky Mountain Tea. Good for cure of alTStomach and Liver disorders. Call for a free sample at £our store,- It will be given you as cheerfully as Jf you werejpaying forjjt. The Gaffney Drug Gompy. R. C. GARLAND. Mgr. '. " Hotels anil Depot. liO.< Angeles, Cal., Oot. 29.—That our lives here are a process of develop i .cat and that the divine care and pro tection surround all who trust in <! h! is the theme of the preacher iu this ser mon. The text is Psalm xl, 17, “The Lord thiuketii upon me." Spiritualistic mediums perpetrate many frauds. Bui the greatest of their absurdities is not found iu the rappings and groaniugs by which they apparent ly summon the dead to their dark pan eled rooms and couipel them to speak to their Insane victims, it is found in the ridiculous photography iu which the dupes of spiritualistic mediums have their pictures taken, surrounded, as they are led to believe, by the spirit to be n poet or u musician. He is go ing to bo a plain, practical business man or a lawyer or a doctor or a min ister. He must have a good, sound, common souse name that will not in ...e him a ia ghingstock among Ids a Njc.atos iu: one that can easily be remembered. Call him Joseph or James or V iliam or Edward or John.” Tie* pi.iiinuig of the parents for the child lurts at th*> christening, i ■ eonics the question of school. Peihaps the father has amassed some vealt v The money question is not a r c« tg one in the home. Where shall ihe ’ >y get ids education? The mother m: . - . desire to have her son go to one 1 »f the aristocratic private schools of lie city, where he will have for com . unions the sons of wealthy families. Again the hard headed common sense of the father comes to the rescue. •Wo,” tie says. "No private school for my boy. My father sent me to a pri vate school. There I dabbled n tittle In a dozen different studies and did not master any one of them. My boy shall go to a common public school, where the foundations and the nidi ments of an education are pounded into him. I want him to master the ‘three Rs’—reading, writing and artth metle. I want him at fifteen years of age to know how to write a letter. faces of their loved ones who are near T i, at w i )at thousands of college bred to yet not of this earth. Have you ever seen any of these fictitious pic tures V Within a few blocks of my old eastern borne was a little stationery store which had its show windows fill ed with them. Raphael painted his "Sistlne Madonna" surrounded by clouds of angel faeee. Those de ceitful photographs that I saw iu that window showed believers in spiritual ism surrounded by the faces of their departed kindred and dear ones and friends. There they were in those pic tures, the living with the dead, side by side. Could any frnud^be mor£%old, more cruel and more corrupt thau that which declares that such pictures are genuine? And yet as 1 would stop and men do not know. I want him to learn to spell and punctuate correctly. After the rudiments of an education have been soaked into him, then we can talk about private schools or a university course.” LearnlnK Self Itoliancr. After the school days are over what happens? Tb a common sense father makes the boy start out for himself. If the lad enters business, he makes him work iu another store where tiie father Is not. If possible, he sends the son away for a little while, to work iu another city among strangers, so that the boy learns to think for himself and stand upon his own feet. The wise father does all this not because he is siArus Then study these pictures on my way home hard hearted; not because he wants to during the winter afternoons I often get rid of the boy. He puis the burden said to myself. “Absurd thoee pictures < ( f life upon the boy iiecause be is a are in reality, but how true they are true friend to the child, planning his OR, J, E. CRIMM, The Famous German Eye-Sight Specialist, is permanently located at Spartan burg, S. C. Corrects the most com plicated cases of eye troubles. Examination Free. All glasses at the most reasonable prices. Cross-eyes cured with glasses without cutting. Office hours, 9 A. M. to 6 P. M. Office, 90 W. Main, Opposite Spartan Inn, Spartanburg, S. C. 9-26-tf. For Sale 385 acre farm, $20.00 per acre. 67 acre farm in Yorkville $27.50 per acre. Lot 72x100, 3 miles from Gaffney. 83 acre farm, $14.00 per acre, 6 miles from Gaffney. " r 17^ acres $100.00 per acre. acre farm 4^ miles from Henrietta and 25Cliffsides, 22 acres of it in timber, $16.- 50 per acre. HOUSES and LOTS. 8 room house and 6 acres in Blacksburg, £1,300.00. Fine 6 room house,newly finished, $1,800. Lot 72x135, $900.00 down. 73 acre farm, $1,350; 2 years to pay for it. 4 acres 3 blocks from depot, $3,300.00. Lot 80x200, west end, $350.00 Lot 2)6 acres, 4 room house, $1,050.00. Lot 135 feet by 200, 3 blocks from depot, $725.00. Lot 200x200, 4 blocks from depot, $700.00. Fine 6 room house, newly finished, near graded school. 3 fine houses and lots near depot. 125 acre farm 7 miles from town, $13.50 per acre, x /z in timber. 185 acre farm near Pacolet Mills, $15.00 per acre—enough timber on it to pay for it. 185 acre farm 7 miles from Gaffney, $15.- 00 per acre. 140 acie farm near Cherokee Falls, 40 acres in fine bottoms, 60 acres virgin timber, $15.00. 82 acre farm 4 miles from Gaffney. Price $14,00 per acre. 114 acres close to Gaffney, $28.00 per acre. 122 acre farm good houses, barns, etc., part in corporate limits, $4,100.00. 125 acre farm near town, $1,350.00. 78 acre farm 3 miles out, $1,350.00. 129 acre farm 3 miles out, £16.00 per acre. 40 acre farm on Pacolet road, good house, etc., $1,250.00. 84 acre farm extremely cheap. 202 acre farm, good houses, good barns, etc. Price $1,800.00; easily worth $12.- 00 per acre. The Hill house and lot, 5 rooms $510.00; :he cheapest place in town for money. Would rent for $6.00 per month. The Charlie Stacy house, only £800.00. 75 acres most all in timber, $r ,000.00. One fine lot right in heart of town, $2,- 100.00. One farm (extremly large) $10,250.00. ^^^Acres, house, etc., edge of town. Price house, b.irn,-ton- room ami 1 am* Thickety depot, $425.00. Lot 80x200 in left of resident portion of town, Price $800.00. 36 acres, lies nicely, $360. Prices reasonable. R. L. Parish. figuratively!” A man la never a true man unless be always has many faces about him. You may think be Is alone, but he Is not alone. These faces, these many unseen faces, hover over him In benediction. They smile at him when he smiles. They go with him to places of evil resort and rebuke him while he is there. They Joke with him. They plead with him. They pray with him. They come and sit by his bed when he Is about to fall asleep. They greet him the moment when he awakens lu the morning. Some of these faces are old. Some are young. Some are just bud ding Into young womanhood. Some are middle aged. But these faces are always about us. They are about you. They are about me. They are about us when we are at home; they are about us when we are away from home. We may be travel ing In a railroad train a thousand miles away from our own firesides. It Is the eveulng hour. We are tired of reading the book. We throw It down and rest our heads upon our hands and look out of the window* and l>egin to see many faces. “Yes," we say to ourselves, "this Is the evening hour. Our wives are putting the babies to bed.” People may say we are alone in a railroad train, but we are not. We are home. I tell you we are home. We feel the baby boy climb up Into our lap and beg us to tell him a story; we see our little girls sitting by the table studying their lessons. After the prayers have been said and the bed room lights turned out and the last Journey to the crib has been taken, with Its drinking water and the good night kiss, we see our wife go and get the darning bag filled with a lot of the children’s stockings. She sits down by our side. Then she looks up with a sweet smile and says, "My dear, let us have a good talk.” As we talk she sews the big holes the boys hoy e made In their stockings when they slid down the cellar door, which Is their favorite toboggan. There she sl{g In the rail road train conversing. Millie we are thinking of our absent dear ones, by the telepathy of love we know they are thinking of us. They are constantly by our side. It Is because they are ever present with us lu thought that we try to be Just as good and pure and true as If we could kiss their lipe and talk to them in the flesh as well as in the spirit. But are the faces of a father, a moth er, a wife, a child, the only ones that are ever present with us, because they are always thinking of us as we are of them? Oh, no. David, the sweet singer of Israel, says there is another face which we must place over and above the human faces hovering about us. That is the face of God. He is think ing about us. He is planning for us. He is pleading with us. I want to im press on your minds the fact that the Lord’s face is ever present with us and that he is continually thinking shout us. The Father’s Oar*. God plans for iu as a developing friend. He is like a true parent who has a child given into his care by the birth angel. The true father does not look into the face of a child and say: "Now I have a child I will shield him. I will always keep him by my side ns a helpless child.” Oh, no. That is,not the true father’s way. No soon er is the little child born Into the home than at once the parent begins to plan ahead for that child. He plans for him as a baby, as a boy, as a youth and as a fully developed man. He starts this planning ahead when he chooses the name for the christening. The selection of the baby’s name is no easy task. The mother may be of a poetic temperament. She may desire to give her son a name euphonious :is some of the romantic names of the wild woods. But the father says: "No. My sou In all probability Is not going best development. He wants to make i the most out of hts sou and bring him to the highest physical, mental, moral and spiritual development. God Is do- 1 iug for us iu a wide sense what the earthly parent Is doing for his child iu a limited sense. He is placing his bur dens upou us to develop us.j He Is not making us struggle for the mere pleas ure of seeing us suffer. He is eom- pelliug us to be caretakers that we may grow In strength and climb the higher mountain peaks of inspiration and power which be has lifted for our thrones, and yet today there are but very few w T ho have graoe enough to thank God for the divine band which has smitten them as well as for the divine lip which is ready to speak the w’ords of comfort and good cheer. Bptrltval Growth. Spiritual growth Is not developed so easily near the perfume of a flower garden as among the thorns and the lacerations, the agonies and the suffer ings of a ravine of thickets. The stron gest wing, the keenest eye, the swift est foot and the sharpest Intelligence are uot fouud lu the meadow lauds, but In the deserts. There the lizards must run like the lightning or the strong beaked "road runner” will snap them iu twain. There the buzzard, with his great wings spread abroad ns the sails of a ship, must be able to course 011 hour after hour in search of food and with almost omniscient eye watch the tacking wings of other buzzards miles away to see whether they have found any meat, or else that bussard must soon starve .nil die. There the coyote must have the wisdom of the serpeut, all the stealthiness of the fox, all the speed of the deer, the olfactory sensi tiveness of the hound, or else the rab bit and the ground squirrel can never be his. To live in the desert the spring must be as swift as the panther’s; the endurance must be so great that wa ters a hundred miles away are not out of reach to quench the parching thirst. Every ear must hear the slightest whis per; every Intelligence must be the most far reaching, or else the beast, the bird or the serpent will die. In the deserts of life God best develops us. uot In the meadow lands. Not in the easy places do we become the strong, true, pure, good and noble men he in tended us to be. In the desert places we And the highest development of moral and spiritual life. The strongest flowers grow not as hothouse plants, but like the trailin'? arbutus and the crocus, scenting the hillsides near tim ber lines, whose lullaby Is the whis tling wind of the early spring and whose soft couch is not the green grass, but a white quilt of drifting snow*. Canst thou not realize that the harder the wind blows the more easy is it for the sea captain to trim his sails and the swifter the ship’s speed toward the desired harbor? BeneAeent Troubles. Troubles are beneficent frhen packed upon a man’s back In certain quanti ties. They may and do develop the physical and mental and spiritual man. But though the soldier goes forth with a brave heart to fight the battles of bis country, with a haversack upon his shoulder, he could not fight, no matter how brave the heart, if he had a con vlct’s chain riveted to his ankle and n mountain of oppression tumbled over upou his breast. Thus, while it is the duty of a true parent to put certain burdens and cares upon his child to de velop him, It is also the father’s duty to see that his child shall not have too great burdens to bear, which will break his b»'ck and crush his will. As does a true father, so God plans for us. "Whom the Lord loveth he chas teneth. God'dealeth with you ns with sons. For what son Is he whom the father chnsteneth not?" That means us the father reproves, rebukes utul exhorts and develops the child by. the heavy hand of trouble so God the Fa ther deals with his own. But lu Corin thians I also read these words as a qualifying clause; "God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able, but will with the temptation also make a way to es cape that ye may be able to bear It.” That means that when troubles or temptations come upou us greater than we can bear then the Lord, who Is a! ways planning for us, will step in and stand between us and that temptation. Thus 1 find God the developing friend. In the next place I find God the pro lector, God the shielder, God the ward er off of too j^reat dangers when we are not able to care for ourselves. Must Be Helped. Let me illustrate how well nigh im possible it Is for some men to help themselves unless they are first helped by others. Last summer It was my privilege, with a couple of gentlemen, to go camping through the mountaius of southern <'alifornia. For a long time I had wished to penetrate these moun tains and go and live for awhile upon some of the Indian reservations. The great "San Luis Iley festival” was to take place amoug ft couple of these tribes. We timed our trip to witness this festival, so Important in Indian life. There I saw some of the old In dians. almost as Ignorant and super stitious as their ancestors were cen turies ago. An old Indian missionary told me some of the strangest facts about them. Said he: “Do you know that many of these Indians believe iu ghosts and apparitions, Just as did their grandparents? Though they talk but little duping the day, yet they hesi tate to go out at night because they are afraid of the darkness. They al ways whistle or sing to keep the s] from teuriug them to pieces, there Is another peculiarity about them. With all the advancement of clviliza tion everywhere seen, many of these Indians have never learned even the commonest laws of health. They build their adobe houses with no adequate means of ventilation. When they be come sick some of them will go to bed. Then they will have erected four posts at the four corners of the bed. in the old I^ouis XIV style. I have seen the friends cover these posts over with blankets and not leave oue loophole for the fresh air to get In. There the sick man will lie and simply be smothered to death. On account of bad ventila tion we find that most of these Indians die of consumption, although these mountains furnish the air which cores the white men of consumption wben they come here and live In the open.” Theae are only a few of many similar statements made to me about the In dian’s backwardness. The Isnoranee of Indioaa. Amazing is the Ignorance of the In- .dlan. There in these festivals you see the old men dancing in their bare feet to the walling song.: of the old squaws, the same kind of dunces their forefa- thei-s danced fifty, sixty, seventy, years ago. Instead of being men and worn en they seem to be Juat little children. As lambs they are led to the slaughter by the sins of the white man. The Christian church must go lu and put her strong arm between these Indians and sin. Ignorance and superstition. It must go In. else the Indian shall be wiped off the face of the earth. The reason the old western proverb "Then* Is no good Indian except a dead In dian" has such a universal acceptation Is because the American Indian, unless helped by the Christian day school, the Christian church and the Christian mis sionary. will never be able to help him self. The white man’s sins will smite the red man down before be has time to open his eves to see the white man's virtues. God speed the arduous work of the American missionary for the salvation of the red man and the red woman! These poor aborigines are be ing tumbled into drunkards’ graves by the white man's whisky; they are be ing morally corrupted by the white man’s licentiousness; they are being ground down Into misery and want by the hell fires of the white man’s gam bllng passions, which are destroying their lives for this world and for the next. It is Impossible for some men to overcome some temptations In their own strength. But. thank God, the dangers and temptatious that surround you and me are not Insurmountable If we only call on God for help. The true father places his strong arm about his boy’s heart when the surges of temptation roll in to submerge him. God the Father will throttle the hissing throat of that dead ly serpent of evil if we will only beg him to rescue us. He will take away that agonizing thirst for drink. You know you have been fighting it for years. Yes, he will make you pure In mind and heart if you only run to the cover of his wings. He will lift you up, as you would run to the rescue of your boy when he is confronting some sudden and imminent danger. If you will only call to him as your child calls to you: “Help, father! Help! Help!” The Lord tends us trouble to develop us, never to crush us. Those over whelming mountains of trouble and temptation that are rolled upon us do not proceed from his hand. These mountains, these insurmountable moun tains of temptation, are everywhere around. Then It behooves us to stay very close to the side of that loving Father who is always thinking and planning for us. Ftay by the Lord, who will always protect us when It is necessary for us to be spiritually pro tected. The threatening dangers ahead in the Christian’s life are Insignificant In comparison to the peril from which Cbrl«t delivered him In the past, when he said to him, "Thy sins are forgiven thee." Those ahead may be compared to the ship lu the last throes of the tor nado. The cordage Is being stretched *o the utmost The satis, like huge bal loons filled with gas, are swelling lar ger and larger, until they seem about to burst. The helmsmen are clinging frantically to the wheel. The great beams and the planks of the hull are . groaning, while the huge waves toss it as a chip is turned a somersault over th*» mill wheel. All Is anxiety. The pumps are at work. The danger is ; great, but there is yet hope ahead. | With a strong keel under him and the sails mill holding to the masts, the sea 1 captain has hope, no matter how 16ud | may be the shrieking of the euroelydop. j But, though tiio spiritual, moral, j mental and physical dangers ahead may be likened unto the stout ship struggling to round the Cape of Good Hope, the spiritual catastrophes of that past time when we were In enmi ty with God were like a ship which has been wrecked. What a scene of terror Is-that storm! The masts have been cut down or snapped by the wrenchings of the wind like dry twigs snapped In the fingers of a little child. The lifeboats have been stove in or pulled off from their derricks by the angry waves. The rudder chains no longer can be used, for the rudder has long ago been battered away. The an ehors are not able to retard the doom ed ship onrushing toward the rocks. Soon the denthknell of the surf is heard. The ship comes nearer and nearer to its grave. All the demons in the caverns of the cliffs, above shriek in pandemonium of Joy. Then the waves come together in one last effort. They put their broad arms under the doomed ship. Together they lift it with one mighty heave. They drop it with one sudden, shattering Jolt upon the rocks. For now the rocks crush through the hull’s bottom as easily as a pile driver could mash an eggshell. Such Is the figure of the awful spiritu al catastrophe of our past life. It was bombardment of sin after sin. It was yielding to temptation after tempta tion. At last we were morally wreck ed. We were spiritually doomed. We were shattered upon the awful rocks of despair and eternal death. Then we did uot need a protector nearly so much as we needed a divine recreator, a redeemer. We needed a divine chart, not so much to save us from future sins as one who would blot cut the awful record of our past sins. This obliteration of the past is just what the Lord God Almighty will do If we will let him. Through the atoning blood of Jesus Christ all this can he do. Read the third chapter of Acts. "Repent ye therefore and be convert ed that your sins may be blotted out” Tes. we have been crushed upon the rooks of eternal death, but Christ can lift us up and place us upon the rocks of eternal life. Halleluiah! For the Lord God omnipotent saith it. A PMoefml Seen*. Let us return to the peaceful scene of my text. As we climb the Judaean hills, where sits the shepherd poet watching his sheep, we see a transcendent beau ty shining from the face of the psalm ist. David Is not looking down to earth, but away off. Far, far away is his vision. He seems to be watching his dear ones. He looks as though all the treasures of the hills and all the wealth of the seas were about to be given him. He seems to hear music sweeter than any human being ever beard before. We look at his raptured face a moment. Then we ask: “What is it, David? WYiat do you see? What do you hear? What treasure is yours?” He looks about at first dazed. Then he comes back to earth as he answers; "Why, I was softly singing to myself that Fortieth Psalm. I composed It many years ago. 1 did not then realize all I wrote. When I came to the words, ’The Lord thlnketh upon me,’ 1 began to summarize all the care God has taken of me In this world. Then I began to see visions of the glories of the land which he Is preparing for me beyond. God is thinking of me. Yes, he Is preparing them all for me when the right time comes for me to possess them. Look, cannot you see those glo ries now?” As David talks his inter pretation of my text seems very plain and very simple. God Is again dealing with us as a father would deal with bis child. God says, “Nothing Is too good for his children when the right time comes." So he thinks ahead and plans ahead for us. When the right time comes— and come it will—God is going to give us a great mansion In heaven. Yes; you can picture it—a white marble pal ace. with mosaic floors and ralnbowed fountains. It may have terraced gar dens surrounding It Our palace will be as good as that. There Is nothing too good for God’s heavenly children. There he is going to give us health—im mortal health. No pain, no suffering, no heartache. Is to be there. Nothing la, then, too good for ns when the right time comes. Then he is going to give ns back our loved ones. Some of us are very lonely now. W r e will not be lonely then. Nothing will then be too good for us In celestial companionship. Then God will give us a crown. Then we shall have endless communion with his own dear self. Oh, my friends, will you not let God go on planning for you and thinking for jrou? Was it to be wondered at that the radiant face we saw as we climbed the Judaean hills and looked at the shepherd poet of Is rael was celestial In Its reflection when we realize that David was catching a glimpse about what the Lord was planning for blm beyond the grave? Will yon let God plan for yon such a future? (Copyright, 190G, by Loula Klopach.l COMING! HUMPIY DUMPir SPEC TA C V LA R PA NTOMIM K DIRECT FROM NEW YORK ONE NIGHT ONLY Wednesday Nov ember 1 GEO. H. ADAMS' BIG CGIAPAOr ACTORS, ACTRESSES, SINGERS, DANCERS. HANDSOME 'COSTUMES, GORGEOUS SCENERY. BUSTER BROWN. The Lutheran Chnreh. The Lutheran church Is not one that makes as much fuss as some others, but Its growth la rer’arkable. Accord ing to the latest statistics. Us Increase In North America for the four years from 1900 to 1904 has been 534 pas tors, 722 churches, 1.208 parochial schools and 1,102,300 members. The total membership for the Lutheran church In the world Is now put at 70,- 168,727. There are 14,814 deaconesses. —Church Ecouomiat Also, New York’s Greatest Sensation IS 10 The Creation of a Woman out of nothing The most startling and unexplainable act ever given on the American stage. Prices, 25c, 50c, 75c. *1.00 Tickets now on sale The very best and largest show here this season. Geo. H. Adams, the original Clown. One-half the audience ladies. TIib Candy Kitchen i-^Cill doing business at the same old stand, next door to the Postoffice, with a complete of Candies and Fruits. I guaran tee my candy to be pure and fresh. Lowney’s and Headley’s always in stock. Full line of Fruits—Bananas a specialty. Call to see me, and I will save you morejL Yours truly, 11-3-tf S. R. Suber. 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