The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, March 22, 1907, Image 7
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SHORT TALKS HY
L. T. COOLER.
THI. siom \rn.
Uv hut peoples slomaehh do cause a
lot f>f trouble, i ottered to wager some
doctors in St.
•C • ; Paul, Minn.,
tiiat one halt oi
all sickness is
caused by the
stomach. After
I assured them
that my medi* 1
cine did nothing
but pel t he
stomach in shape
and they had
spent a day list
ening: to what
people who call
ed on me had to
say, (lies had to
heard people come in
Calmage
Sermon
By Rev.
Frank De Witt Talmage. D. D.
C. H. ro'Vl.I.L.
i% s <‘ w i i i i iiic. 'hi*
tinc lei! me (hat tor \ ears ilu \ had been near
the grase vsith Bright’s disease, or lung
trouble, or kidnet eomplaint and all man
ner of diseases and that the New Discovery
had cured them < )t course these people
were mistaken, it was nothing but their
stomachs. As a matter of fact when the
stomach gives out most cv cry thing else is
throw n out of order too.
^ !i,?ti a person feils tired and dull and
despondent, is loosing llesh and don',
slet-p well, has a poor inemurv . a had
taste in the month, a coaled longue, and
Otiscr troubles he's liable to believe a lot
of mings are the matter with him. N'tie
chances to one it s his stomach, l'\c
seon (iooper’s New Discovert luoighaek
hi .rlth to too m inv sa,nlt o' ; s' this
shupe to believe anything else. II re's a
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I.os Angeles, t al., Mut'd) Ji.—It) this
geruiot) the |ii'eiidier outliiies in itun^i
nation the iliamatie story of a eharae-
ter of the time of Christ whose ex
perienee has a reniarkalile interest for
(Jie people of today The text is Mat
thew xvvii, .M. “Truly this was the
Sou of (Jod."
No pieture of the enidtixion is per-
fect unless tlie faee of Jesus Christ is
tin* (enter and the absorbing theme.
All other parts of the picture must
converge toward that divine face or
radiate from it even as the spokes of
tin* wheel brandi out from 1 he hub.
There mav be three crosses, but Jesus’
cross must be the central cross. There
may be soldiers there gnuibling lor a
piT'e. lint that prize must be the gar
ments ol Jesus Christ There may be
a long line oi scullers and mockers
and sie‘i'refs and blasphemers passing
by. but they must all have their eyes
the dying Lord. The
ibta k and the rocks
but through tiie blackness of
nidn<min t here must be some
of light hovering about the
ig brow of the dying Jesus. All
. 1 the i '■ Uixioii scene must
let , ; ihe personality of the
-lire i t the divine or universal
■ death of him whose aton-
I w; shed that whosoever
■tit on him should not perish.
\ e CV I lasting life,
tliMi ' would not for one
tin'll \ I'll " eh'.ef ihomdil of the
i 'ii iToin our Divine Lord, yet
in o' •• io briir: t 'Itrist’s saving stie-
riliee . id i |o e| isel' W e WotlM this
mm :i: ‘ ■ (‘ y imi vv atdi the uptm ned
1 - i* >,! ! i :!,*iii s d Iier vv Ii is stand
ill' 1 i >t of tlu‘ cros- and with
Otilsii' : • .ms is illtering the words
of jnv to Who is this eenturiouV
Where did ' 11 a‘ from? What was
his past I ! fit, was he lei to be
hove in the .. \ of our Master and
J\jii ? i la - e iiiiestions which I
weald I', " i i aii • r in an imagintitive
way, for in all tic Bible we do not
read or • word about him < .eept that
he was a eupLeii • T a petty line ofiieer
lu the rural districts of tin* Homan
empire virtue dwelt. There were pm |
rLy and truth and honor. There the ,
women lived. Ill e t'aesar's wife, above i
suspicion. Tbere thousands tint! tens
of thousands of Cornelias had their
most precious jewels in the setting of
a cradle. From tin* pure, sweet, whole
some life of the rural districts of
Rome came tin* men who tilled up the
legions of Caesar, which defended the
Roman power from the Atlantic ocean
on the one side to the Tigris on the
east, from the Danube on the north to
the Sahara desert on the south. The |
men who conquered the then known
world under Julius Caesar and Angus- I
tus were not the debauched valetudi
narians from tin* polluted palaces of
Rome. These warriors were the phys
ical and mentai giants who came from
the rural districts of Italy as the
strength of the French republic Is
found in the country life of France
ami not in the haunts of the dissipated
youth of Paris.
The Life of Old Italy.
If the moral life of old Italy was not
pure and domestically wholesome, how
can you ■> count tor the noble career
of Tibc ins (Irac. hus. the father of tin*
two billions Crarclii how for that
him. inHexible stoic, the Count Leo
Tolstoi of .liilius Caesar's time. Mar
cits Porcius Cato: They syy that (’in
ciunatus, the legendary hero of Rome.
vv: 1 twice ottered the dictatorship of
Rome when in fanner's dress hi* was
guiding the plow over his farm. It is
also s.tid that as suon ..s <'incinnatus
left the dictators], p ho ■ cam returned,
like w.i higton to bis plow. If the
moral life oi Il.Iv vv.,s not domestic
ally pure and i. 'lesoux* how can you
ac ott111 fm tiie purity and tin* nobilitv
and the virtue of (tclavia. the sister of
Auga: It o whose beauty ami virtue for
I'eut H i'-' have h"oij .oiinded by every
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PREPA.SEIJ A 1 •lli.
DeWITT GO.,
• A ' A i i< Z OK
CHICAGO. U. S. A.
Por sale oy
herokc^ Orcg Co., Gaffney; L 0
AII'SOII, Cowt^fia.
FINAL DISCHARGE.
Notice is hereby given that on
Saturday. March 30th, 1907, next, I
will apply to Hon. J. E. Webster.
Probate Judge, at his office at the
eourt house in Gaffney. S. C., at 10
a in., for a final settlement and dis
charge as administrator of Mrs. A /.
Wood, deceased. All persons hold
ing claims against said estate must
«. »*'x>ar and present tiie same at or
before triat time or he forever barred.
J. I. Sarratt,
Administrator, estate Mrs. A Sk
Wood, deceased.
Fill), in Gaffney Ledger Mch. 8. 15,
28 and 29, 1907.
ffhis tninslatcd i
the Or mb s ei.
was tij,- <trout'-s
flow into the 'i
river was aw v
an') WHISK tV HABITS
cuict ut tione vvittp
outtiam. Book of ; ;.r-
tieulars sent •‘ Itl.K,
I H. M. WOOU.LA .
to ( mpty its
at
waters, as
the Rhine
tlifough tin*
Hu* Thames
would have
AtLaiitu, (xit. Oliicc JU4 N. I*, yoi street.
Cures Coliis; Prevr.efs Haconvcnla
DeWttt’s « Salve
Foe* F!!Q8f Curn« # Soroe*
FOLETfSHONBY^TAR
etope tlx* cougb end Heel* lunga
Engiish chan m l
nal n: an by th:
ply this: The
upon whose ban
built, as Par
of the river Fc
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the minutest details the vileuess ami
the repulsive corruptions of their sins.
There they were welcoming their guests i
with such words as these; “Come and 1
see me in my lewdness. Come and see
me in my domestic crimes. Come and
eve me an inhuman monster. Come
and see my inner sinful life as it is’
And into such evil environments as
thesa* i think the centurion of my text
was inducted in Rome when lie was «
i very young man.
I think the boy came from a pur,‘*.
refined home like that In which most
of os were cradled. It was also a i
home which was not blessed with cdther
riches or poverty. Tin* old homestead
stood in the midst of a vineysrd. Tin*
farm also had its green pastures for
the cattle and its fields for raising con.
and wheat. The father had plenty of
money to support the family, but he
had very little to spare. But as this
boy seemed to be especially bright 1
think the parents did everything in
their power to send him to one of the ,
great universities at Rome for an edu
cation. One night after the children j
were in bed I think I hear tin* father
and the mother talking. '‘Husband,” I
hear tin* wife say, “we ought to make
something out of our boy Julius be
sides a common farmer. Of all our
children In* seems to Ion* his books
tin* best. Night after ni Id In* is pour
lug over Cicero's ‘Philippi s’ and ‘Oati j
Hrir's Arraignment.' He has read and !
reread every line which the later poets * ”
• A Z ’ '
All In* do» is to heal Hie slek and open That our American forests abound 1b
*,v■ (*_\ i s i>t tin* ! Iitid and brush away plants whir!, pus-css tin* most lahuxafla
• in* ) >ei's' scab Yc ;. Julius, his mis medicinal virtues is abundantly a Hewed
sion i- in lical tin* brukcu bodies and by scores of tin' most eminent mchicai
p,, , ( . . ii ;T ;i i sin'' write)' and teavhers. Even the uiM/a-
„ tored Indians had discovered tin (iMfwl-
C: ?L-..n Julius Ponders. neS8 of manv , , tl j V e plants Udoft «)v
M' dini - ! < an • i M'i im Judas advent of the white race. This infortn*-
i‘ : ii 'I * iu tin* R"' a i barracks, tion, imparted freely to the whib^. led
IIF bead is rcsiiugou Id band. Then the latter to continue investigations bbCI
I Jieai liini sav : "(Hi. i- Jesus all that? to-da> we Inive a rich assortment of »*§t
Is his mission only to help tin* poo valuable American medicinal roots,
and (he sick and tin* Mifl'ering? Is hi- j
ndsioii to Cleanse sinful men from un • Hr. Pierce lielieves that our American t»r~
ev.l past ‘ How my deal motln*i would f(r , (f IIM(S| mate and fatal
liiivf lii l n! How tiiiiM* an* tin* eaiM's. if wtf wouhl Mmbj;
j*r!ij»tt*s t!i'* IhHisfliolfl ^ods of my aixi, in ronfii'iiuitluri of this convto*lkj*« lie
Itomau in.,. .*: Ttulv. father and moth j T'T'IZf
-r cures effected l>.\ Ins "tioldcn Medical Bta-
er to tiie liest ol tlieti spuitnal light coverj,” wliidi lias proven itself to be ttoe
made our old homestead virtuous an,' most efficient stomach tonic, liver tnvicur-
h. what would mother ' «^ r * b"* 1 '' »onii and regulator, and btoob
like Virgil and Horace, have written.
11
i all gathered to worship our dying Lord.
In the lirst place, i imagine that this
centurion was once a Roman youth
who was boi'ii amid the pure, sweet,
wholesome country life of old Italy.
By that I do not mean he came of an
Ignorant, ooverty stricken family, but
I believe he ■ ame of an Italian land
owning family " liieh had neither pov
erty nor riche but had purity iu do
mestic life, refinement of home asso
ciations and i.ad .all which was possi
ble in a heathen land to make life
pure and svv-'t ami wholesome. In
other words, I believe this Roman sol
dier came from a family like that of
hundred and thousands which lived
before the eivi! war in Georgia .and
Alabama and Kentucky and Virginia
and Tennessee and the < 'a rot inns.
These tandbes bad their slaves to
work their plantations, but they lived
for o' ethin ■ good In sides money
niaki iv. They 'ived for the noble pur
pose of making true, brave, manly
men out of lb, r boys and noble, vir-
tuou- vfives i | mothers out of their
daughters. And, what is more, they
not on!.' stro.i to make noble, pure
men and worn ■ out of tle-ir children,
but as a
the
vv
Again, when
of Augustus,
can you ue-
her father in
barren island
one of her
rave? Would
me that unless
■ intrenched in
moral b >me~ ? Ah. no;
ei w.i not the moral
t.aly! It wa s not the
i the I ire tb'eside of
. i»* is to be
nn i ,,f Italy vv(‘i'(* de-
,i !i<*n tlK*ir ( ompanions
vvuild not have
t the perfidy of his
"All.
Roman historian's
Julia, the only da
became profi m n .
count for tin* fact
finger exiled her t
of pail.1.derm a I,
guiltv paratnoiirs t
Augustus ever !ia
virtue and purity
t Iniu.sa a L
RoUle's deli,:U'
type of rural
criterion by v !
Augustus' boy
judged. If al!
based and al! :
in sin. Augu
w ring hi.- i. u.'!
only eiiild and cried out in agony
would dint I had never entered wed
lock ml laid died a childless man!”
It v* in a pur ■. noble, high thinking.
-i,
sinnde
I thin]
born.
living hoi'u* of rural Italy that
the cell! ui ioii of my text was
The Scene Changes.
Again the sc, tie elianges. Now I
vvouid have ym stand in the very cen
ter of all tin* sin and debauchery and
moral fdlli of tin* g eat capital of the
Caesars The year is about 1” A. D.
The Augusiinian reign was drawing to
a close Tin* reatest of Roman rulers
next to .liilius ('aesar himself was
about to die.
filled with p
insurrections
dead. Who
’I
ot
a* polkfia! world was
and counterplots and
‘The king is almost
hall he the next kingV”
was tin* question upon every lip. The
hand of Augustus, that royal master
of men, that hand which was as soft
as velvet and yet as strong'' as steel,
was b *' i! i' 11 ■ ! i Io -'* iis v isel ike
grip. T!: ;•! ’• r of ilu- Roman capi
ta! had drawn !h
into its fi*baue!iin
ceil! loi’.s'iese
were rimiiin
It was into
rule 'i the ' ugustiulan ago
frot Inch this !:• man • entnrtoB
sj11 irig th-* iceoinpllshed vviiat they
Ktruggled lor.
Not AM immoral.
it :s a very ".'ace mistake to suppose
tiis! rural Italy in tiie time of Augus
tus was Ii,. ■ ini uoral Rome. You can
no more judge the country life of Italy
by the mo'al - andards of the social
life of «'.lesa.i' - capita) tlian y ou can
judge the moi ! standards of France
by that of I’aris or the pure, sweet
country lilt* ol our own land by the
stand of the Tenderloin district of
New York or by the social scandals of
summer resorts The more I have read
Roman history the more I am impress
ed with the fact that Rome was not
only tin* iu i!""' 1 < e- -pool of all Italy,
but of .all the 1 ifeigii capitals and the
countri - of tl. • world. Do you not
remember tin ’ mous sentence of Ju-
vei 1 11, "in ! i i defluxit Orontes?”
“Into the Tiber
.1 itself.' - Where
:',ver? Did it literally
<*r? No. I he Orontes
if, in Svriii. In order
f the
vvi'ilthy prodigals
nia(*lstrom and 11
and unlit idled passions
i'! i every . ken'.
sne|i ,( mad scene of w«8-
sad and * in 1 al that, I think, this
eeiiturfiin nf nr text then a young
man el' six: ■ :i or cigl, een summers,
v. as induetc Lt <■ ' " to understand
what kind of lemn'm i ms assailed the
mil'll ei a i er ami t'.e spiritual life
ef this yi ii man ! would have you
for a lift! - while u.md.'r through the
excavated rub, of id I Pompeii. You
know tfin 1 *!i* in' ! famous eruption
of Moui t Vesuvius took place only
some thn , .ire * u's after Augustus
died. A' that enipti'io of 72 A D. God
seemed to pul < i ' his h; nd and say: “I
will cover up th: < ii in licds of lava.
Then no; iy J.ciHl ye;,: - later I will lift
my liaii ! and shnu to th(* world how
low and vile and fiestial and immorally
corrupt a great < api ,,l (an become
when It is d"uok v 1th wealth and sin
ful revelries and v lieu man, uiihrldled
In Ids ev ii desires, can become viler in
Ills desires i! an the b if footed swine
snouting I n' their food amid tin* re-
pul- Ive ti : h i *’ a
this is ju ! vviiat < cm
stant Ike earth w.i
agony of an earthqunk
the hea veus v. ere cov •
flames, in an instant
of imdten lava were rolliu
sides of t in* v ■ Icitno. I ii
refuse.” And
did Hi an in-
oeking in Hie
I n an instant
I with leaping
lie great rivers
down the
an instant
!'' ito the Tiber it vvouid
Mediterranean
to empty into
to jump the
Now. what did Juve
t sentence? Why, sim-
"outes was the river
! S ea: tern Mltloch was
huilt upon tin* bunks
Juvenal was poet
ically aaylng'. "All the tilth and the tin
moral rottenness of Antioch and of all
the •astern cit - were emptied into
Rome as tb * n er Orontes figuratively
empties ita filth into the river Tiber,
Upon whose banks tiie Romnu capital
was built.”
What Juvenal teaches us Farrar and
Stanley and all the penmen who have
delved into Roman history also teach.
life ee; i*d to exfi r in the Newport of
old Rnme T!iu i' i sentinel was
found dead at t’.e gate, and the bread
was f mud ! If <•<» •! In tin* oven,
and tin- mof 1 !' r as ' t id (lead trying
to shield her la'.y underneath her
body. Fmt wh t else do we find in old
Pompeii?
The Life of Pompeii.
There up ' !!s of some of
these excav; i io r- of Pompeii we
find piciure I Lie 'ei -rate lives of
those anefi rt i .'i; 1 One glance
at some of those pictun s reveals to us
what the he otted lives .,f the men and
women who inhabited those homes
must have been ihose pictures tell
us more than whole libraries of written
words could ever icve d. oh, no; the
charge of hyn ri-; which «’heist hurl
ed against tk ancient Pharisees could
not be applied to the immoral and
drunken degenerates of ancient Rome.
Then the followers of Bacchus not only
sinned, but they gloried In their sins.
They not only sinned, but they pictured
pun*. But.
have boei) able to do had she hail this
Cliiist for her Saviour?” Then me
thinks I see the ceiilm'.uii anxiously
look into Tibe: i.i- face and say; "< up
tain Tiberius, do you believe that this
Jesus will forgive me, even me? Why.
my mother died of a broken heart on
account of tlie waywardness and vile
ness of my youth. \\ ill this Jesus for
give me. even mo?” 1 hen I think 1
see Gaptain Tiberius place his hand
upon lulins' shoulder and say "?es.
Julius. This t’hrist can b<* your Ghrist
for in my own hearing, after Jesus
rni ed my sick servant. I heard him
say to a great crowd of people who
l wore flocking about him near Lake
ililee. All that (lie Father giveth iin*
Why can we not send him up to on<
of tin* Roman school d have him
educated to be a grcai orator and a
staiesinan?” "Well, mother,” I hear
the husband say. “perhaps we can do
it Julius ought to be educated. Per
hap vw* can cconomiz** a little closer
at this end so that tin* boy can spend
ii r a oney at the other end for an edu
cation.”
Thus I see the centurion, then a
very young man, enter one of the
great Roman schools. I • e him
caught there iu the maelstrom of sin.
I 'ei,* him, lilm tin* produm] of ''hrl't’s
pa I ible. become the vicli’l) of dl kinds
of evil associations. I -ee him, like
thousands and tens of thousands of
young students today, who come from
pure. 1 me. eon-eerated Christian
homes in this country, enter the large
universities of some of "iir great cities
and tiii.'ii plunge headlong into all
kinds of sinfulness. Then 1 see the
young n mi. besotted with drink and
evil excesses of all kinds, return to
his old home and say: "Here I am.
mother. Hen* i am with health gone
and character gone and noble spiritual
ideals all gone Here I am You sent
me from the pure associations of my
sisters and my rural home. Here I am.
a moral and spiritual degenerate.”
Starts Life Anew.
Again the seem* ehaug's. I believe
this young man. disgraced and socially
ostracized at home, makes up his mind
to start life anew in one of the distant
Roman province . This has been the
natural course for thousands of young
men of all centuries who have dis
graced themselves at home. Then they
try to make a new start In a new
world among stra gers. You who have
heen western i .iners in the old seven
tl(*s know what I mean. There In those
western mining camps it was the well
recognized law that no man should pry
Into tin* history of his neighbors.
When Bam Houston, the brilliant |
young governor of Tennessee, married I
to one "f the famous beauties of his
state, sudden!' felt that In* was dis
graced, w hat fi d he do? Though only
thirtv three years of uge. hi* at once \
resigned the gubernatorial chair and i
plunged Into the wilderness of Lie far
west There, in tin* wild, unexplored
regions of Texas, he began life anew
When we *v i again of Sam Houston.
It Is not as Sam Houston, the governor
of Tenues: i‘i*. but of Sam Houston, the
president <>f Mn* Texas republic. Thus,
as we imaginatively study tin* life of
this Roman centurion, 1 see him in dis
grace leaving his father’s home. Then I
! see him next in the faroff province
of Judaea. There, in the Roman camp
of Governor Pilate. I hear him say:
“The gods helping me. I will yet make
something good out of my life. Yes;
I have broken mother’s heart am!
mad** her hair white as the driven
snow and killed her with grief, but I
will yet make her. If she is alive In
another world, proud of her way ward
son.” This centurion of my text may
have come fr m one of tin* purest and
the most refined homes of all rural
Italy. Then, by the student life of
lei i ntioiis Rome, we see ids moral and
spiritual life completely wrecked. In
this faroff j;. man province of Judaea
In* is carm* Ly and pray erfully trying
In ihe Roman army to make a man out
of himself.
Again tin* >. change-. It is now
about Lie g ig : q ,\. D Tills Is the
thin* when all Lie Jewish world is per
plexed and In doubt about a Nazarern*
named .b -i. . We are now In the Ro
man barracks of Jerusalem This is
the officers’ quarters. Before us Gt-
the vveil devcioped figure of an officer
about thirty e ■fit years of age. This
is the former youth of whom we have
heen spiMl.ii, y. now a broad shouldered
Roman eentur; m. He turus to one o
his brother o s and asks: "Tiberiu
why are they making such a fuss ah mt
this man Jesus? Who Is he? Is he a
thii f or an insurrectionist? Has he
murdered nn,'ho ly? Why do s o!.l
Calaplia'', tin* li::'!i > ri‘" t, ha'e him so?
Tell me sonu-i,me about him.” Then
I think I sc - ’! ''-rins turn and sharply
look about him I begin to surmise
that this Tib'.*: : 1 , is a Christian. Per
haps he was the Roman centurion who
was once stat one*] in Capernaum,
about whom Matthew wrote, who had
a beloved servant dying from an up
patently incurable disease. This sen
ant Christ healed. You know the story.
Then I think I hear that Christian con
turiou tell Julius, his brother officer,
shall coine to me, and him that conieth
!o i"i* I " ill in nowise east out.’
But again the seem* changes. We
a re now standing at Ihe foot of the
cross. This is tin* ertieili\ion. Here
:.re the two thieves, the one on the
ri;. fit. (lie ol her on tin* fi I; of tin* cro- -
. hieh bears ihe dy ing Lord. Yoi
•*om** I - great multitude, sneering
elcanser known to uxaJii'al'eienee. Jiysaw
sia. or iiidige'tlon. torpid Mvu». funrltaMal
and even valvnLu and otli'-i attYetloM of
th*- heart jiold to its curat be notion. Vi*
reason trli\j i! eutes these and manv otdier
affections, is clearly shown in a little ItMa
cf extracts from f tie standard medical
which is mailed Irir to any address Ly Iir. Ik
V. Pierce, of Baflalo, N. Y., to all seMfcn*
ruuuest for the •nme.
-O
Not less marvelous, in tie unparalleled
cur*-- it is eonslimily making of womWs
many jticuliar atv. ci ions, weaknesses ana
distressing th rang'-mcnis, is lit Pieore **
Favorite Prescription, as is amply aMasited
by thousunds of nn-oli'-iied test imOntafs
, trlljuted hy grateful patients v\)io hare t«*i *
. cured )>y it of eaianiial ixdvic drains, paMai
periods. iri'i-gulHiitics. prolapsus and odher
displacement' vuu'cd Ly weakness, ultwr-
ation of "tei "' and kimired artVctious, Wf*»«
after ii an\ ottn i adverti'i-d medicines, dm*
physicians iiad laMtsi.
' --> -c-v
war king their hc.ufi
Here tiie
Botii the ai«(iM meiiUoned medicines are
wholly math up from the glyccrh* extract* #f
native, mi(lii-in'i! root'. Tiie proci sx - «
ployed in linn ■ . nufaetliri wee eii^a.al
will. Iir. Pier. ■ . ;,uii they are carried oa *v
skilled chem:' - ;'id pharmacists witli
aid of lipp; MU' ud applialiecs s pet -1 -1
dehigiK'i io.'i 1 -I' for if - poriwisi P.<«
metJiciti' S ;,i- u',:, 1 f , lr*'m aleoiioi
all oiler I.i -if". I p,lining drugs A
full li't oi im . ii -uoiyiits is printed
each IxitUe-tv t apper.
the soldiers gui:i!i!iI:g lor tie nnents
of tiie dying Saviour J$ n -trange
(toincidence 1 find ifi.it tills s.ili c Gup
fftin Julius, whose < ,,ntcrs>itio!i \\**
'v ,■ listemt'g to the otber n . lit ;, i
tin* Roin-m harracks, h.-i' L, ep (|cto !
ed to see t it tin* oeifi'r of I’il '.,*
r of<*T , « , nc(* to ! ■ Up-•<* st.-it,* criminais
is carried out V -thinks I sec him
sf: nding iu tl.n* for, -iiniii *.f flu* ern
Gtixion seem* 1 Mikii up • t th * f.t.-e
of Jesus, 'i’liis T: liuan - 'ptn
countenance lias- a i ib! tl '•> ... ' 1*-
fie God?” th'il eouii' • >i, • si 'iii' t*»
suy’ “If lie |s Goil. , dot's lie pot
•omo dow i ! roii; tin- oi-O'S ;im! .-ive
: himself, as ihe scoff, r- are < bitllcng
1 iug hint to do? Ol) f wish T eottfil s:iy
lie was my Lord! Then ! triight _o
bad; to Honie and tell mv broil'.- and
, sisters and old s ! ii r Hi .-ompanions
about him.” As Li. Roman centurion
| soliloquizes thus it is about ]'J o'clock
• noon. Sudden!' the lien verts become a<
black ns niidnight Th(*n there is a
^ booming and a >• ashing, as tliougli t!i<*
I rocks were l.c!ng splintered under our
feet and Lie firm mountains were
shaking from their foundations. There
Is a great cry of agony. I itenr the
Paviour call. "Eli, Eli, Lama Saba< fi
tiinni!” which is interpreted, “My Cod
my God. why hast thou forsaken me?”
Then I sc.* the Roman commander in
fright tremble and < rou. li as if terror
stricken, i see him arise and stand
straight up and read) out Ins hands
toward the cross and cry out. “Truly
tills was the Pop of God!"
Another Piet' re.
Of course in one sense (ids sermon Is
cn'irel; imaginative. And yet I think
there may in* more trutli in it than
’ihinv of ns believe. As ! began It iii
an Imaginative wav. s<* | v,T|| end In
’’ic same w a When 1 think of this
Roman eenn n mi peer pb*tur<* him
• sirupte a, 1 - vleiigifig I 'hrlst as th**
S< o > f God and Lien going back to hF
!’> of -! r i. i picltire bim as resigning
from Lie Ron -in ann>
to the Roman <•.:' i i a I.
!.'a as oik* of the <’hristi ins of old
Rome to ..horn I’aul later wrote. Then
I picture ii!: i as going out to the old
homestead, to the pure home of ids
youth, and telling ins brothers and
* tors about ids new found Christ
1 Ken 1 pieture the persecutions corn
ing. Then 1 imagine him an old man.
bending under the weight of seventy-
five years, hut strong in faith and in
fidelity to Christ. He may have been
a long “the saints iu
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Then I picture
By virtue of a (here** of partirfoe
and sale of the Court of ComtnMi
Pleas of Cherokee county in the c«ae
of pearl Edna Powell, plaintiff n.
B. F. Camp, *-t al defendants, 1 mflt
I sell at Gaffney before the cxbb<
house door, during the legal how*
for sale, on saiesday, Monday April
1 1st. 1907, Lie following d sctHmi
j property, to wit:
Alj that lot or piece of land in tfc*
North Eastern portion of the town
of Gaffney, said StaL- and county am
IzOgan street, and known as lots
15 and Hi on plat made by R. O.
Sams, surveyor, October 18tli, 1894:
Beginning at stake corner of io* N«.
'14. and running thence N 2. r > 1 2 W.
100 feet to corner of lot No. IT;
thence with said lot No 17 N. . r >4 12
W 2bfi feet to -tak *, another corner
of lot No. 17; thence N 35 1-2 8.
HiO feet to corner of lot No. 14;
th. nce S. 54 1-2 E 20n feet to hegl*-
Hing corner, containing t wen tv thon*-
Ciicsnr’s house- i and (20,00<)) square b et. more of
all about this Jesu ;. “Julius,” says he,
upon the walls of their homes down'to “ Cbrlat never dld barUi
Ii id” of whom Paul writes. He may
even have been among the GhrJsiian
martyrs who were burned under Nero.
The change would not have heen any
more extraordinary than that which
transformed Fan! tiie persecutor into
Paul Hie apostle. You may say Lie
story is imaginative, but it is not un- j
reasonable.
In the dark catacombs of ancient ,
Rome, wh. re b.OOO.OOO bodies were ea
tombed, there :; a martyr’s grave whi.-h
has on it this epitaph: “While on Ids
knees in pr ver before the altar of the
into God they took him and led him
away to execution.” | wonder whose
grave that v. a . i have never heard
(iii* name of •martyr vho was buri'd
there. I won hr if it was the grave u '
an old man. I wonder if it was tiie
grave of <’upt:,m lulius. I wonder if
it was t; * r: artyr’s grav e of tiie Ro
ll.an centurion \vh,se company had
charge of the crucifixion of < i.rist :i!"l
the two thlo.'i* > in the spring of 30
A. D. It i . y have been tha) grave
When th" de M angel shall come to
siiUiUieu us b d'ore the judgment S( at
of Christ I w i:ild that, like that mar
tyr in the catacombs of Rome, be
mi/ht lind us kneeling “in prayer la*
fore tin* altar of the true God.” Then
will that death angel be aide to lead
us into the eternal life triumphant. ;
Then we shall not stand at tiie foot of
the cross, but ’ e shall he seated upon
a throne and wear a crown of eterna! !
and triumphant reward May God I
bless this sertronlo dream "Truly this j
was the Sou of God!” Gome, let us :
change the w rt a little "Truly th s I
man Is and forever -hall lie the S n ;
of God and our resurrected Saviour |
and redeeming Lord.”
[Copyright, 1907, by Louts Klop. "h ]
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