The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, February 06, 1906, Image 7

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worth 112.00 T ho,,Se an i th e cheapest ®°ney. Would month. The Charlie Stacy On aC « es Inost 311 \ Cne flue iot right 1 ^2,000.0U. One farm (^xtremeil D a . v ' res - house, etc! Price $4,000.00. 1 412-6 acres of lE house, circular piaz- ♦*;<ioo. ioo yards from Lot 80x180, corner wSr* 1 ’’ near 4 room house, tarn »tnr 0 «■<>-. PO, acpo**™* (De Loacl1 r.OO (D, land8) , 7 00 ^ aa ^- ^1 bottoms. seventy-flv e acres In his nJ I? acre far n R. p. creek. grade t-reom land. Good h »w .Wr «re 6 btocta fro m d^otl wa acres of buildings, Price $4,000. Me^dOW 0, pi ice, Not one bird was cooli throat by some runn! another song. Not rrita Morgan Wailful iot One heen tr ,,et9 •^Orenn^ fl.fMd ^ tiaibe llg *oreL ‘••-i 1Q - " Idee good.' ^ 87 acres 4 on R. P. D. an well, $860. / *81 acres on^Thickety and Gilk creeks. Lje&-Wie, fine buildings, high ly Improved and good timber. 128 acre®, 8 acres original forest, plenty of 2nd growth pine timber, houses, etc., has well, $12.60 per ac»e. Nice .Iroise 11-2 acre j of good ground, near depot. Price $2,000. or one villa, ere were sand, s of sani sand; not ^•oumletely tliis region a lizard or a jack Not a fly or a mosqu 1 his eyes. Not a buzz; seen afloat in the hea There was not the rustle 1 miles out. i or the snapping of one twi; eeted of sand, [and, roll- re but in biding for “The same,” says same Paul or the chief of sinners, ut now^ disciple of my martyred flien I sa; “But, Paul, why art thou re, out in : hls desert V You seem to living hert\alone without a friend? do you tft go back to Jerusalem Jake yourposition by the side of r discplcs ofChrist-'and be eader AT ^^^dlaster?” “I canno* go '«et,” ting iwyself 'for ing Cod’s 4v( wants me to d Paul, thou art one men of all tue east! d In BlaSksbu 8-room house acres, beauti: % * C-room house, lot 150x160, good harns and opt buildings, $600. Will •exchange for farm. Mice brick store room, house and vacant lot in Gaffney, is rented for $13 per month. Price $2,175. 6-room house and 1-2 acre ground, tine orchard, $1,225. FOR RENT. 8-room house and one horse farm ia town. House being feed uo. UNION COUNTY. acre. | sound heard was the pattering of his timber,, C a me l’s feet as they sank into the aw ful, the appalling, the endless sand. A Dreary Waste. What the Sahara desert Is to north ern Africa tue Arabian desert Is-to lUthwesten* Asia. Like the Sahara, 1th Its luxuriant valley of the river the feet of tbe greatest Wle, Arabia lias its oases, \ts places hast been tlie favorite pupil' ■ vhere vegetable life can grow. But i llel, the nn>«t famous teacher , or the most part Arabia is a weary east.” “True(” says Paul, “I am r —' ,,J ^ vm ’vjrT'xr« , hT» '*aiik arned 1x1 thin s s People say I full lescriptlon of It read &bou lea( jp r But I have been study- in Ibw Wallace’s “Priuct 0 u ' elo( TL arV*’ 1 the past for art’s sake and Then la found as wonderf d a P e e 1 \ AMnee for eloquence's sake. All the painting in reference toitssands great^ of ^ ^ mine( andT^endless silence a* bUt t0 authoi gave in bis farnouidmriot rac^ Itually wft worldl But not iK>ne to One pretty new 6-roon cottage in Union; nice barn and. oiuhuibilnga. Yard and garden; nicely fenced; on Wardlaw street near E. Main. Only a short distance from railway station and school bouse. Young rebard, splendid water. Price $1,500. Two- thirds cash, balance in one year. CHEROKEE COUNTY. One four-room cottage near Irene Mills in splendid condition, on nice lot. Is rented for $6.00 per month. Price $700. CHEROKEE AND YORK COUNTIES. 900 acres of nice land In near Smyr na, Hickory Grove and King’s Creek. 700 acres In nice timber only a couple of miles from R. R. station. 100 acres of B^n-Hur. — — . „ , . Wallace do we have to H 1 * scriptkm of its lonelinesi.J Apfl Ki, and Romans used to sari is divided into three i>uiti-^ abia p trae, or the stony part; or tbe desert part, ai or the happy part.” stony part ends and begins is very bard while tbe happy area, so sma _ ed only by wandering tribes. Thus when words of my text, I up to Jerusalem to labia Deserta, irabia Felix, it where tbe desert part not to be spir- ave turned my for two years rd. I want the very sense to my life.” Then the nds upon me his great ull of earnest beseech- ys, “Would’st thou have t with tbe messages of Arabia is inha nomad Bedou Paul wrote “Neither w<»>’A then butt meJit this: “Instead of going at once into a grew, city as soon as I was con verted I Uepurtetl into a desert place. I wiut ofl to be aloue with Christ. I tarrinl fjr three long years iu Arabia soulful eyes, meat, as he me conversai men and not ueseii . and mConversant with what my distinguish, wantister Jesus Christ is and small wnat l metoAor m to&ay. Q laew-i and \|men? Yearw ago your mother wante you to become a good musician. 8he wi urging you week in and week out topractiee. “Daughter,” she used ‘you must practice at least two day or else you cau never mas- whiclV were apostles before me, to sa .v weut/ Into Arabia,” be practically hours ter thj keys.” Year In and year out you hr to storing the works of the great mu sician do yoi in older to lit myself spiritually for the to stu F' God’s word? One hundred woril God was to give me to do. Then wen I up to Jerusalem to see Peter pncbibode with him fifteen days.” \\| gll ought to have our sacred Ara- biaS We should ever and anon turn in good bottoms on King’s and Wolf our 1 icks upon the world and have creeks. Several settlements. Price $16.00 per acre. 700 acres of land on Broad river adjoining the above tract, nicely tim bered, two good settlements, In fine condition. Price $15.00 per acre. 455 acres close to Srayrna^nrf iYta^- ory Grove, good land, lies well, good settlements, near good scltool. Prlc< $15.00 per acre. 218 acres, good settlement, prett; land, lies abreast up to “railway sta tion, well timbered. Very cheap at $15.00 per acre. ourq et communion with Christ. Wbat is t ' isert of sand to many a human eyf iny be a spiritual Arabian har vest 1 -Id to the children of God. The Arabian desert, in the first place, neaii for Paul a theological education It me at thirty-six long months, when *41-hooka of human authors? Is take ti day fi holy shelves books, of all library hazard of thesi ly rea< he dit little but study the science of God’s -elation to the world. It meant week* and weeks and weeks of read ing Sripture and of saturating him self wth the history of Jesus Christ’s life, t meant Paul living over again e consecrated two hours a day How many minutes per day go off aloue Into your Arabia and tifenty minutes? Sixty minutes? One-haf hour? Ten minutes? Do you minutes alone with God every reading a chapter out of his tyok? You have your library fllled with v books. Scientific ssays. books -of travel, books -jrts are there. I go Into your and turn over the leaves bap- I find that you have read most books. Have you systematical- God’s book as much as you 86 acres on Thickety creek, 33 acres his pa|t scholastic life and interpreting In good bottoms, house, barns, etc. his stijdies from a new spiritual Stand- Being put into good shapt, good soil, not rocky. Price $15.04 per acre. About 7 wdes fronp town, close to nehool. F rices reasot Ible^f - |L. Parish point.land this for a man of Paul’s mentul caliber was no short or light task. The stronger a man is mentally the wider Is the range of^hls spiritual hori zon; the more a man matures the more I your idea of an education a great deal like that of the poor Irishwoman whose husband was learning how to read? One day her pastor came to her and said: “Well. Mary, I understand John ig learning bow to read. Can be read thi) first chapter of Genesis yet?” “Bless jour heart, pastor,” said Mary. “John ig-doing better than that He fes got (V beyond the Bible. Why. John now tends most of his time in reading the 4aily newspapers. Isn’t that splendl& Ah, my friends. It matters not mF smart we are Intel factually, we A never get so educated to sa 1 portant to st it is just as Important to will send down his Spirit upon you and make you like unto his dear Son. Have you your sacred Arabian deserts or your regular hours for pleading with and talking to God as well a* your sa cred hours of having God talk to you? Can you think of Paul out in that desert unless he Is praying? I cannot. I can no more think of a prayerless Paul than I can of a prayerless Christ. While thinking of this matter I had a strange dream in my study. I thought It was again the year 88 A. D. I was again wending my way toward that llt- but in the Arabian desert which I ave already described. I was again g by the side of the dear Apostle He was expounding the word of to me. Then suddenly he stops and 'vays: “I cannot go any further; wait avhile; I must talk to my friend.” “Talk to yvur friend?’’ I say. “What do you meiih? I do not see any one around. Talk to wYAfe friend ?” “Why, talk to my friend Jesus Christ!” says Paul. Then, without any affectation, Paul drops on his knees and begins to talk to Christ just as I would talk to my dear mother if she were alive by my side. * In my dream he did thus every little while as I studied with him that day. And do you know be prayed so often that in m^ dream I could feel that Christ wad just by our side and not a dead Clrfist, as some of us think. That nlgtorl went to sleep quite early, for I s much fatigued. But in tbe middle tbe night I was awakened. In that bumble hut I heard again the mighty voice of Paul praying, praying, pray- ng. Oh, he seemed to be praying most oi' the time. Was it a dreaYu? Was not Paul a praying Paul? As in my dream, have you a Pauline Arabian desert for your sacred hour of prayer? Paal In the Deaert. But I believe there was still another reason why Paul disappeared Into the Arabian desert and stayed there for three long years. He wanted to study the word of God. He wanted to get his heart mellowed and spiritualized by prayer. Oh, yes; but, more than that, he wanted to get the hearts of the peo ple into the condition where they would be willing to trust him and believe in his message. In other words, he want ed his Arabia to be a place where he could walk hand in hand with Christ. He wanted It also to be the place of testing, where men and women would learn to believe that his profession of Jesus Christ was sincere. Is it tn.Jto -wondered at tljat the Christian people were afraid of Paul? What the inquisitor Titelmann was to the Christians of the Netherlands Saul was to the early Christians. The mere mention of his name struck them with consternation. Methlnks we can bear the poor Christians of Damascus cry ing when they beard he was coming: “O God, save us! O Christ, rescue nil” No sooner did tbe vision appear to the good Ananias, saying, "Paul is waiting for thee to bantlze him,” than tbe good Ananias answered, “Lord, I have heard by many of this man, bow orach evil he bath done to thy taints at to Bethany to meet Mary and Martha and Lazarus. Come, I want to show you the gardeu of Gethsemane, where we all slept, and the palace where I denied him. Come, and I will show you where he died and where he was rew r- rected and where he left us for the last time.'’ The days slipped into tbe first week, then into the second, and the fif teenth day came and still they talked. Then Paul said. “Well, Peter, I bad better leave you now and go and work for my Master. We both love him, Pe ter. You walked with him in the flesh. I saw him face to face at Damascus. May God help me to testify aright for him.” As Paul went up to Jerusalem to put himself under the influence of Peter, the great Christian apostle, are you and I ready to put ourselves under the care of the noble Christian men and women who are around us? And now conies the practical tion. Where are the* modern Arabia deserts? In order to find one do we have to travel to Damascus, as Paul did, and Journey to the east? Nay. We have our Arabian deserts in the western hemisphere as well as In Asia, in our lives as Paul had in bis life. I think that one of our Arablas may be our sick beds. Hour after hour we may have to lie in the Invalid’s room. Oh, how near to God we can then get! Then another Arabia is when death comes to some of our dear ones. “Alone, alone!” we say. “All, all alone!” We are not alone. We are in the desert. Then another Arabia is when persecution or slander comes. Our best earthly friends may turn against us, but God never turns if we call upon his name. Another Arabia may be. Just after we have been living over again the past. Even now we seem to see the dear faces of our de parted kindred come up. We seem to again see the day when we first conse crated our lives to God at the church altar. My frieud who described for me that trip over the desert told me also about the wonderful mirages. He said they would be traveling along, when sud denly ahead of them would be seen a brook and falling waters and moun tains and green fields and gardens. They were all there. He would turn to his traveling companion and ask: “Do you see this? Do you see that?” “Yes,” would be the answer; “I see them all.” That, of course, was only a false vision. But here today In the Arabian desert of Paul l am not show ing to you a false vision as I ask: “Do y<ya -see-ytrtir -ohi -W»e?- - Do you see the family at prayers? Do you see your father and mother taking you to church? Do you see the mansions in heaven? Do you see your loved ones there to greet you? Do you see your Heavenly Father beckoning you to come? Do you see Christ standing by your side to save you from sin? you see the cross and the crown?” A.V, this Is no mirage, no false vision! This is the Arabian desert wherein Pan! is communing with Christ and consecrat ing his life to the Divine Master’s ice. [Copyright, ISOS, by Lout* Klopsoh.] 'TO My Friends and Customers I take this method of thanking my many friends and customers for their ?r«-ral patronage while I have been in business. 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