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Los Angeles, Cal., Pel*. 18.—It Is the lid. familiar story of the wayward son, the “black sheep” of the family, which the preacher takes for his theme in this sermon, the text chosen being Luke xv, 10, “With the husks that the swine did eat.” What an epitome of pathos is con densed within these eight small words! flections he wrote as follows: “When I look back to the earlier and middle periods of my life and now In my old age think how few are left of those who were young with me I always ! think of a summer residence. At a bathing place when you arrive you j make acquaintances and friends of those who have already been there some time and who leave in a few weeks. The loss is painful. Then you j turn to the second generation, with which you live a good while and be- I come most Intimate. But this goes also : and leaves us alone with the third, | which comes just as we are going away and with which we have nothing (o do. I have been esteemed one of fortune’s chief favorites. Nor will 1 complain or find fault with the course my life has taken. Yet truly there has been nothing but toll and care, and I ; may say that in all my seventy-five years I have never had a month of I genuine comfort. It has been the per- . ,cnds, do not let sin come offering to you the unpalatable husk of annihila tion at the grave! Let not sin again say. “Come, let us eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die.” We know, we intuitively know, that we shall never, never die. A step further. When Satan cannot lure us into dissipation by the doctrine of annihilation at the grave the old fiend takes another course. He comes to us and says: “You are going to live. Oil. >•< ; y >u are going to live ages up- lillcnniunis upon millennl- u course, means that there 11 that this God has provid- 1s the use of a man talking about par don through Christ’s blood when he baa never sinned? Of course you have done minor wrongs. You have committed Insignificant moral misdemeanors, but you have never murdered a man. Tou have no blodd money upon your fingers. In the sight of God you are not a sin ner any more than your sainted mother was a sinner.” Thus says Satan to us. And many of us have begun to argue ourselves into the belief that we are almost moral and spiritual perfection ists, even as the Pharisee of old thought himself to be when he arose in the tem- Oliver always had to raise anew." Ah, sad ' testimony that! And yet it is not any sadder than many of us can give. When ; we have lived for selfish or worldly ends we can truly say we have not had a month of genuine comfort. We’cuow, as Goethe should have known, that the only true life, the only happy life, is the father’s house, and he will put the ring do if we have not received pardon life* of Christian self sacrifice and the ”Pon y° l1r finger and shoos on your feet through Christ? “For God shall bring every work into judgment with every Visible Writing, Rapid Escapement, Superior Construction, Interchangeble Carriage. The Art Catalogue Tells All About It Is Free oo Reques t J, E. Crayton Ho., Gen. Agts. Trust Bldg. Charlotte, N. C. .Yuly :i0th-pd. Ladies’ and Gents' tailoring Having secured the services of au ex pert Tailor from New York, I am now prepared to cut and make Suits for Ladies and Gentlemen in the very latest styles. LADIES’ TAILORING A SPECIALTY. A full line of samples of the newest fabrics always on baud. Have your clothing made in your own town where yoa can be sure of a fit. All work guaranteed. Give me a trial Clothing altered and remodeled. W. H. Robinson. Upstairs over Settlemyer building Never was gaunt and hideous visaged want more dramatically depicted than 1 petual rolling of a stone which I have in this tragic climax of the prodigal son’s misery. He was in almost ex actly the same pitiable condition as Uie only son of one of New York’s mil lionaires and most honored citizens was a few years ago. His father for years and years had been the compan ion and the associate of the greatest leaders of thought, both trans and cis atlantic. In wealth and honor he re tired to his palatial metropolitan home to pass his life amid refined associa tions. Not ouly was he great himself, but he had three great brothers, all of whom had made noted successes in other lines of work than his own. Pure was the blood of that genealogical family from which they sprang. But amid all his fame and wealth aud bril liant family couneciious there was oue startling weakness. The father could not see the faults of his wayward son. IPs love for bis only boy blinded his common sense. In Ids old age he let hi; only son control ids money. This sou not ouly mortgaged his father’s prop rty, but upon ids father’s name bombed light and left. Then by protligicy and dissipation and reckless cuiatious he squandered his A few months before the pie and thanked God he was not as •• for your eternal existence. i| otlier men. But though we may have ; .< dies not after the fact that j tried in the past to delude ourselves a ( :u cat, drink and lie merry and into the belief that we are all right do as you would. Why? Because the very name of God implies that he is a good Deity. This good God will save us all. Therefore if you have a little fun here on earth that will not prevent you from enjoying all the blessings of beav- morally and spiritually somehow the supposition does not look so bright to us now when we begin to think of standing before the judgment seat of Christ. We know away down in tur hearts that we would not like to tell en hereafter. If you sow a few wild the world all the evil thoughts that oats here you will be like the younger boy In the parable of the prodigal son. You will g > off into the far country. You will laugh and dance and sing and drink and make merry. And after you have spent your all and had a superfine time on earth you can go back to your have passed through our minds and all the evil deeds we have done or all of our sins of omission. The world may not suspect us of these sins. But some day we shall have to be judged for all the actions and the thoughts of our lives. Then what are we going to life that is lived with God. When a : UQ( I YLie best robe on youi back and kill man’s doctrine of life is simply to eat, f° r y° u fatted calf. Don t you see, drink and be merry, he may eat and drink, but he will always miss the mer ry aftermath. Doen Death Knd Allt There is another reason why we re volt at the idea of annihilation at the grave. In our past career of selfish ness and sin we may have evolved you have all the pleasure of the ban quet hall of a Circe’s palace, with none of the horrors of the swine trough Into which Ulysses’ followers were com pelled to go.” Now, my friends, this second Satanic argument to me is far secret thing, whether it he good or whether it he evil.” But as a last resort Satan comes to us and says: “Ah. yes, of course, we grant that you have a bad past. But don’t worry. You are like a child who has had a bad attack of diphtheria. Women as Weil as Men Are Made Miserable by Kidney Trouble. more pernicious than the first. It ia the which has left the heart a little weak, means, I believe, of destroying more The child if he takes care of himself immortal souls than does even the an will outgrow his physical infirmity. quite a string of logical arguments to n ^jj] a ti 0n theory, aud it is furthermore You will outgrow your spiritual weak- prove that “death doth end all We ^ moat jji 0 g| oa i theory ever held by nesses. You are spiritually getting bet- Bi sides, if death does TheSupply Gc. wildca t father's father’s tv h came the financial crash. He awoke .:■< from a horrible dream. He was prar ically a bankrupt. Then came the (it a 'i and the funeral. Then this only sou s mk lower and lower in to the quagmire of debauchery; lower and lower until he used to tramp the streets of New York eity with the sign board of a cheap restaurant strapped to his baek. He sank lower and lower in the social scale until oue day he was found digging for food in the ref use barrel before the very palace in which he and his father once lived. Alt, could any condition in life be sad der than that? And yet this sou was in no lower condition, socially or mor ally, than was the young Hebrew of my text, caring for a herd of swine and fighting with these four legged beasts for their meals of dried, unpala table husks. But as we see this social outcast of my text chewing the husks which had been thrown to the swine this thought comes to me: “How similar is the con dition of some of us in a mental and spiritual sense who have not yet sur rendered our hearts to Jesus Christ?” Sin has come into our lives aud taken away the sweet hopes which our fa- ! tiiers and mothers had in the pardoning ; love and protecting care of their Sav iour. in place of these sustaining hopes sin has come and given to us a lot of husks—dried, uunutritious and unpalatable husks. Then sin has said, “Now try to masticate and digest the teachings of the doctrines of atheism, agnosticism, skepticism, aud al] will be well.” Ah, son.e of us have beeu trying to live upon these spiritual husks too less than mixed paints. When in need of anything In the building line, cal. and see us; we’ll treat you cour teously and make your estim&tea tor nothing. I v. Raker', MANAGER. Scicoesaora to L. Baker, Will furnish your Building Materia) of the best that the markets afford and at the lowest living prices. No. 1 heart pine Shingles and Laths, Guar aateed Pure White Lead and Zinc , „ ,, , and Pure Linseed Oil. Nothing better 1 'o u R- prodigal, we have to paint your house with and cost# been sinking lower and lower in the ‘ i quagmire of despair. Therefore I am going to try to analyze for you some of the substances aud ingredients of the false hopes which sin is offering aud at the same time by the help of the I Holy Spirit to break unto you the bread of life, of which if one eats he | shall never be a-hungered again. The Huaka of Athelani. Kin would blind our eyes to the spir- | itual blessings of the gospel by trying j to circumscribe us with the hateful doc trine of human annihilation. It comes j to us as a scoffer of life beyond the grave. It says to us: “Man is an ani mal. We grant that he is a higher form 1 of animal, but still an animal. He bas to eat and sleep and drink. He bas to grow and develop and decline. He has i to be born, and he has to die. There* fore as man never existed before he was born he is not going to exist after he is dead. When he is dead he is ex actly tire same as a turkey, which, with head chopped off, is cooked for the Thanksgiving dinner. He is dead, and that Is ail there Is of him. Now, as a man has only a short time to live at most aud as there is no life beyond the grave, therefore it is the duty of every man to have Just as good a time as It is possible to have. Come, friends, let us eat, drink and be merry, for tomor- 1 row we die.” And everywhere we see i men and women worshiping at the al tar of Bacchus aud bowing in the tem- | pie-of licentious Baal and kissing the golden shrine of evil Midas because , they do not think there is to be a here after, and therefore they can do with impunity as they will. But our whole natures revolt against the teaching. "Eat, drink and bo merry, , for tomorrow’ we die.” For two rea sons we feel this repulsion. We know that there is a judgment on this side of the grave for sin If there Is not on the other side. We know by bitter, awful- may have read many works of a Vol taire, a Hume, a Bolingbroke, a Gib bon or a Paine. We may have even argued ourselves into believing that we were right and that when a man died he simply died and that was the end of him. But some few years ago we had all our annihilation theories knocked endwise. This was the way it happen ed: Death came to you, not as an un known quantity, but in a terrible form. It came and knocked at your door and said: “Open! I want that mother. I wont you- ter. 1 want your wife. I want your child.” And as Death walk ed away with your dear one you called out, “Oh, Death, is my darling child dead forever?” And away off in the distance you could hear your dear one call back: "I am not dead. I am liv ing again. Believe me. I am living again.” Is not tha-t statement true? Deep down in your heart do you not feel that the spirits of your loved ones are alive today though their bodies are moldering in the grave. Oh, how quickly the sudden appear ance of death can shatter the conclu sions we have built up by years of painful theorizing! I baa this fact 11- i lustrated in a remarkable way some ; years ago when I was visiting the cre matory of Pittsburg, in which city I was living at that time. I was taken into a vaulted room where quite a number of tin cans, each about the size of a two quart pail, were standing around on shelves. Each one of these tin cans euraiaod the ashes of u hu man being. Home had more ashes in them than others. The older a man is the more his cartilages ossify and therefore the more incombustible ma teria! there Is ’o. t in 11k* retort of the crematory. “Here are the ashes of George W. Ferris of the Ferris wheel of the Chicago World's fair, who died only a few months ago,” said my guide. man. A Pernteioua Idea. We have, in the first place, a common ground for argument, and that is God. j Yes, we g > further than that. We have another common ground for argument’s sake, and that Is God as a heavenly, a loving Father, who wants to save all his children if he can. Now, if we agree in reference to these two cardinal premises I want to ask you a blunt question: “Can you think of a good fa ther without being a true father, a fa ther who is looking after the best Inter ests of his children? Can you think of a good father without being a Just fa ther ns well as a forgiving father?” Suppose one of your sons should come to you and say: “Father, I intend to lie and steal and get drunk and defy every moral law. I intend to break my mother’s heart and defy your authori ty and make your name a byword and ridicule through the community. Then I expect you to honor me and do for me just as much as you would do for the rest of tin* children.” What w’ould you do? What would you say? Ah, If you are a true, a just parent, I can tell you what you would say. You would look your boy in the face and answer: “My son. us long as you are true to me and true to your mother aud true to your sisters and true to yourself you shall be looked upon as a member of my family. All that I have then is ter every day. come crawling around, why, then you can repent in toto, and all will be well. Don’t worry. Everything will turn out all right.” Have not you heard Satan speaking to you in this way? I have, ray brother. Have not you? Now, what are the facts? You know that while you are living away from Christ instead of growing bettor you are grad ually becoming spiritually worse. Your heart is ossifying toward God’s touch. You know that you are becoming more and more selfish. You know 7 that in stead of looking at sin with horror, as you once did, you are beginning more and more to*fondle sin’s hand as that of a friend. You furthermore know that, like the prodigal of my text feed ing upon the busks, you are gradually sinking lower and lower in the quag mire of rebellion against Christ. What ougiit you to do? You ought to do as did the prodigal. You ought to get right upon your feet and start for God and for heaven. You ought to here and now say: “O God. I know that I must have thy help right away. Come, Mas ter; come to my rescue now. Do not delay your coming until next year or next month or next week or even until tomorrow, hut come now, now, now. Lord Jesus, save me now.” Will he do It? Ask your Heavenly Father and hear what he says to thee. Listen. “Let the wicked forsake his way and yours. But If yon persist in being un- the unrighteous man his thoughts and true to us and untrue to yourself you must leave my house and leave me. You have forfeited your rights of son- !et him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. Kidney trouble preys upon the mind, <k*» oouragss and lessens ambition: beauty, vigor and cheerfulqess soon disappear when the kid neys are out of order or diseased. Kidney trouble has become so prevalent that it Is not uncommon for a child to be born afflicted with weak kid neys. If the child urin ates too often, if (he urine scalds the flesh or if, when the child reaches an age when it should be able to control the passage, it is yet afdicted with bed-wetting, depend upon it. the cause ot the difficulty is kidney trouble, and the first step should be towards the treatment of these Important organs. This unpleasant trouble is due to a diseased condition of the kidneys and bladder and not to a habit as most people suppose. Women as well as men are rqade mis erable with kidney and bladder trouble, and both need the same great remedy. The mild and the immediate effect of Swamp-Root is soon realized. It is sold by druggists, in fifty- -.ent and one dollar i izes. You may have a| sample bottle by mail ree, also pamphlet tell- Home ot Swamp-Root ng all about it, including many of the housands of testimonial letters received rom sufferers cured. In writing Dr. Kilmer i Co., Binghamton, N. Y., be sure and mention 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. THE CRIPPLE'S LAMENT AND (With apologies to Life.) Oh, I lost a leg by trolley. And a hand and arm eloped. In a head to head collision When the trains were telescoped. By a premature explosion, When I haopened to be nigh. I was shot across some houses And came down without an eye. In a hotel conflagration All my hair was burned away, And they found me mid the rui»«. Bald as on my natal day. Rendered somewhat slow of motim By these accidents, I failed To escape an automobile. And my left toes were denailed. And since then I have made my prog ress. Remembering these daring feats. In a carriage which a servant Pushes slowly through the streets. Though I am very sore and battered There is one comfort midst my ills. Under my accident insurance The AEtna pays the bills. Be sure to secure a Combination Disability Policy in the Etna Life In surance Company, that guarantees you an income if you are disabled. JONES J. DARBY, District Agt. ship, ami you cannot be looked upon Could any promise of forgiveness of sin yes!” I answered. “I knew of trial. In your own heart you feel that “Yes him. lie bad been In my qhurch of ten.” “And here are the ashes of Mr. So-and-so, and these belong to the child of So-and-so,” mentioning names which were household words in the western part of Pennsylvania. Then ray guide gave me one of the most dramatic ac counts I have ever heard. He describ ed Emma Abbott, the great American songstress, descending tiie same steps as one of my children.” Has not God a right to do the same with us? I will put this truth In even a more startling way. Let ns suppose you are a judge upon the bench. Your own son, your own flesh and blood, a moral degenerate, is brought before you for aud divine help and rescue be more powerfully put? Oh, why will some of us stay down in the swine troughs of siu munching the dried husks of de spair when God has opened wide for us the front of the old homestead of bis love as he calls: “Come, children. Come back to a divine Father’s home.” Come back now. Will you do it? [Copyright, 1506, by I.ouis Klopsch.j he lias done wrong aud is not repent ant of his sins and will do wrong again if he gets the chance. What would you do as a wise and Just judge? Functilloua Fnlliere*. Would you say. “My sou, thou art A story of M. Fallieres’ ingenious free?" No. You would do just as the kindliness is told. He was presiding at late Recorder Smyth of New York did a banquet at Ageu when a piece of scores aud hundreds of times. Speak- money dropped from his waistcoat ing to me one night in New York city, j on to the floor. His neighbor said, “I he said: “They say judges have no think you have let fall a two franc I descended and standing just where hearts. Ah, they have hearts! But : piece.” But he replied, "Let it be; that Blue Ribbon A bou-ton, upper crust, good enough » for anybody, GINGER ALE Try it. Ask for it Anywhere in Town. Bottled by < CHEROKEE BOTTLING WORKS. .(;in.26-tf. I was standing. After she had care fully examined the crematory she said, “Some day I am comiug here to be turned into ashes.” Then she slightly raised her skirts and began to dance around the room, and as she danced she sang, and she kept on singing un til she sang herself out of the door. “And within twelve months,” said the man, “her dead body was brought here and committed to the flames. Yes, her body was burned in youder furnace.” Believed lu It Only In Theory. After my guide hud been speaking thus to me for over an hour I said to him: “Do you believe in cremation? What is your own private opinion in reference to it?” He stopped a mo ment, aud then he slowly said: “I be- live in it in theory. But theories, no matter how well formed, do not always work out in a practical result. For years I have been preaching the bene fits of cremation. But last year my baby girl died. She was tuy only as just judges, what are they to do? I have had several young men and young women come before me for trial aud sentence who were sons and daughters of my intimate friends. I would have done anything that was just to save them. But what could I do? I knew they were guilty. I knew they ought to go to jail for their own good us well us for the good of their follow men. I sentenced them even though to do it I seemed to be tearing my own heart out by the roots.” Would not you have done as Recorder Smyth did, even though the criminals before you were your own children? Now, God as a loving Father has made all possible provision for the salvation of his children by the blood of Jesus Christ. He has said: “Come, repent of your sins, come ?u my Son’s name, and I will forgive all and take you back into my family, and I shall be your Father. But if you do not re pent, if you do not give up your sins, MOM IQTFR'Q Rocky Mountain ’ea Nuggets A Busy Medicine far Busy People. Brings Golden Health and Renewed Vigor, A Bpecific for Constipation. Indigestion, I.l”et and Kidney troubles. Pimples, Eczema, Impure Blood, Bad Breath, Sluggish Bowels, Headache and Backache. Its Itocky Mountain Tea in tab let form. 35 cento a box. Genuino made by Hollistbb Duug Company. Madison, Wis. GOLDEN NUGGETS FOB SAL10W PEOPLE child. She was the idol of her mother then as a Just Father and a just Judge and myself. The day after our little I will say, Ye must all likewise per- one had gone the mother came to me isb.” Is the groat cardinal condition and said, ’Husband, shall we cremate of salvation through Christ by giving her?’ I said: ‘No. Mary. No. We up of all sin an absurdity? Ah, my will be o lucky find for the waiter,” and he called the latter, whispering to him to look out for a two franc piece, which he would find somewhere under Ids seat on the floor. Toward the end of dinner M. Fallieres was seen by his neighbor to be feeling with a preoc- cupied air in his waistcoat pockets. As be arose he looked around, fancied he was not observed and gently let a two franc piece slide down on the floor. His neighbor, who had noticed the strange proceeding, asked M. Fal lieres afterward if lie would tell him what it meant. “The fact Is,” M. Fal lieres answered, “that I remembered that I keep only coppers in my left hand pocket, from which the piece dropped that you supposed was 2 francs, whereas it must have been ouly 2 sous. So I took out of my right pocket, in which I keep my silver, an other coin, which that time really was a two franc piece, and dropped It for the waiter to find. 1 did not want to disappoint the man after telling him, jou see.”—Paris Letter. 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You may have argued for spiritual annihilation at the grave, but as soon as God took your dear ones you knew they did not own repentant ones. brother, no longer cling to the false belief that God has sent a Saviour to deliver us only from punishment! Christ earn** to save us from sin. lie will save the worst sinner who will renounce his sin. hut he will not save any who cling to their sins. He saves every prodigal who comes into the old homestead of heaven as one of God’i ■ . die and are not dead now. And With- Another Mlaleadln* Argument. Kodol Dyspepsia Csiro ,y bltter ’ P er80UU » experience, that a i in you today, in spite of all that athe- But Satan does not stop here. T _■ Tirrtrlrl 1 tr ll/o .. i At- • He worldly life. !i\od for mere pleasure Igts and skeptics may say, something comes to us and says: “Salvation by or fame, does not produce real pleasure, keeps singing: “I shall live! I shall From a worldly standpoint our search live! I shall live long after this earth for happiness has been a great deal like |g cremated! I shall live as my dear that of Goethe, the uncrowned king of ones, whose bodies are sleeping In the German literature. In one of bis te- j grave, one living now!” ah my Christ’s blood is all right for a tinner, bat yon are not a sinner. What Is the good of a man squeezing through the bankruptcy court to escape his just debts If he bas no debts to pay? What The Pope’* Golden Jubilee. As he is hale and hearty and pos sesses such high boyish spirits one is apt to almost associate something of the young man wl.’i Pope Pius X., yet the announcement made that in two years’ time the golden jubilee of his ordination to the priesthood will take place and that already a movement has been started in Italy to provide suit able recognition at the proper time proves that the holy father is far from being a young man. Already his re duction of papal ceremony and eti quette to a minimum has. apart from bis office, gained him hosts of friends, and there is every expectation that wb<*u the occasion arrives fitting appre ciation will be made not only in Italy, but throughout the world. — Boston Traveler. Dr. J. M. HUNTER Twenty-Five Years of Practical Experience Makes a Specialty of Cancers. Tumors, Chronic Ul cers, Scrofula and Rheu matism, Diseases of the Liver, Kid neys, Dyspepsia and , Indigestion and Diseases of the Genito-Urinary Organs At Gaffney Feb. 28, Commercial Hotel. FOLEYSHONEY^TCAR •to** tla* owwtfla mUI ImwIs Aui&ge BANNER 8 ALVB th# moot hMlIng Mlvo In the world*