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» SHORT TALKS BY L. T. COOPEK. CHRONIC CRANKS. Calm age Sermon We ell beve met people who ere con tinually kicking. Life seems a terrible thing to them. They seldom smile. Something dreadful is going to happen, nothing is ever just right, and they worry and fret and complain from morning till night. Their trouble seems to be just a bad disposition but this is seldom so. In most cases there is one of two things NK.J.K.SMOCS. " ith , . .. “e™. either their .. }1<nv io , j, al t ye lietweeu two opin nerves or their digestion is responsible. Both come from the same thing—stomach trouble. A man or woman whose nerves are tied in knots is bound to be mighty poor company. The same thing is true if what they eat don't digest properly. No wonder they grumble, I don’t blame them. 1 have seen Cooper’s New Discovery change the whole disposition of people in a month's time simply by getting their stomach in shape again. Even the ex pression on their faces was altogether different. The worried, tired, fretful look changed to a peaceful happy expression, and ths lines of care disappeared altogether. Many people tell me about this in letters. They seem to think it a miracle. Itis’at. 1 relates to people of that olden time It’s just the stomach working again. Here's a ease of this kind: By Rev. Frank De Witt Talmage. D. D. Los Angeles. Cal., July 28. In thi>' sermon tin* preacher hrings us to the crossroads, where we are open to choose the world, its pleasures and its unlielief on the one hand or the road which leads to the higher life of faith and to eternal com pan ion ships on the other. The text is I Kings xviii, 21, ions: Elijah, the author of the words of my text, is speaking to King Ahab and to the children of Israel. He describes the nation as halting or hesitating The word was an appropriate one. A :.ian who is not sure about his posi tion or his course, who travels a little way in one direction and then a little way in another direction, makes no progress. He halts and stumbles. It is a most unsatisfactory state, whether "I suffered with my stomach for thirteen years. Nothing I ate aeemed to digest. I also had chronic constipation, and was tired, dull, irritable and despondent all the time. I found it difficult to attend to ■ay duties as traction agent at this place.” "Six different doctors treated me and all gave different opinions.” "I began taking Cooper’s New Discov ery, and to my surprise it helped me from the first. I bava gained ten pounds in three weeks and am feeling fine. My work now is a pleasure, where before it was drudgery.” J. R. Smock, Cicero, Indiana. r to people of our time, so many of whom are similarly halting. Elijah ontends that Jehovah is God and that Dual is a mere bl<x - k of wood or stone that eannot hear prayer or reward bis worshipers. He proposes to prove it to the people then and there. IaT two altars be erected and a slaughtered animal lx* laid on each. Then let Haul's priests pray to him to send down lire t<> burn up the sacrifice, and Elijah will pray to Jehovah to do the vame to tin* other sacrifice. The result Ibe ground for the chipmunks, and th« winds blowing the pollen from tree to tree In order that they may be fer tilized? Is the cosmos of the social world any more incredible than the cosmos of nature? The Creation of Life. “Oh, but.” some one says, “you mis understand me. I do not believe this world came into exig ence in a day »r in a year or in r millennium, it nas taken centuries u > m centuries and millenniums upon millenniums to pro duce the form of life which we have. Just the same as the pigeon fancier can produce hundreds of different kinds of pigeons from one pair of wild pigeons, so life is continually produc ing various forms of new life. Now, the biologist can trace these forms of life to other primitive forms. And these forms In turn go back to earlier primitive forms. And thus we go back century upon century and millennium upon millennium until at last we find life in its crudest forms. Furthermore. I believe that conditions create the life rather than life the conditions. For instance, as the earth continues to cool off that cooling process may de velop a new form of man fifteen feet high, and, like the antediluvians of old. that new man may live to be a thousand years old. So you see, like Herbert Spencer, I am an evolutionist and not a deist. I believe life always has existed and alw’ays will exist and God has nothing to do with It.” But I do not see how you have an swered my question. You may push the lieginning of creation back ten thousand million years, but you must still have some Intelligent Being to create the first germ from which all others have lieen developed, and you must also have a Creator who has made the natural laws by which these various forms of life have been pro duced. What difference does It make whether St. Peter’s cathedral at Rome had to have four generations for building? Some one first had to con ceP’o how Its dome was to be erected W« mJ) (he Cooper medicine*. GAFFNEY DRUG CO. O r* Stomach Nc appente. less o! strength, nervoun- ness., headache, constipation, bad breath, general deL.;,y, soar risings, and catarrh of the stomach are all oue to indigestion. Kodci relieves ir.d gesticn. This new discov ery represents the natural juices of diges tion as they exist in a h althy stomach, C.m.bined v 'h the crcrt^st known tonio ana reconstructive properties. Kodol for . . cs: • - : ot oi y relie ve in - gestion a .d dyspepsia, but tins tarnous remeay helps ai . . ; h s.fc’ ;o ' cleansing, pjr :r -ijr —tening and strengthening therm .ons mem cranes lining the stcinacn. iv. Ran . a*i a:— with s ur £• ■ i dh for t\ e ty. • . Kodol cureo n<e and we are t aw using it In milk lorbaoy 1 Kodol Digests Whxt Yon Eat. Booties only f*.* -ves indit sii.n. sour stomach, te rhi-.e of r . etc. Prepa-ed tiy E. C. De A I I T & CO.. CHICAGO. For Sate by Cherokee Drug Company. / LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION. State oi South Carolina, County of Cherokee. By J. E Webster, Esquire Probate Judge - WhereairR. A. Bonner has made suit to me. to grant him Letters of Adminlsteratlon of the Estate and effects of Edward f. Bonner, deceas ed. These are therefore to cite and ad monish all and singular the kindred and creditors of the 8al< * Edwftrd F. Bonner deceased, that they be and appear before me, In the Court of Probate to be held at Cherokee Court House, Gaffney, 3. C., on Friday, August 9th, next after publication thereof, at eleven o’clock In the fore noon, to show cause, if any they have, why the said Administration should not be granted. Given under my hand, this 24th day of July. Anne. Domini, 1907. J. E. WEBSTER. Probate Judge. Pub in Gaffney Ledger July 26th an<t August 2nd, 1907 Jones J. Darby Insurance Office Star Theatre Building PARKER’S HAIR BALSAM Clntniei and beautifet the halt. froiiMitee a ]ui'in»'it growth. Mwver Valla to U-.tioro Gray Hair to Hu Youthful Color. Cum ecalp a hair falling. jOo.and at Dniatiata FOLEY^HOKET^TAR •tope tK* ootxfflx and lx»*ia lunge THE ORIGINAL l-A. A”!VZ. COUGH ftYRUP KENNEDY'S LAXATiVLHONEY^TAR la* Clavar Btow an* Uooey Bee oa Every Bolllfc FOLEWHONFMAR for The r. fl a ht*ur aiid Miswer prayer, which of the two is God. The proof was clear and unmistakable. The prayer to Baal fell on deaf ears, and there was uo re sponse. Elijah prayed to God. and the fire fell on bis altar and consumed it. !'!:<*n the people began to cry, “The L >rd lie is the God. the Lord he is the 'oxl!” Now, the purpose of this ser mon in a nutshell Is to contrast some of tin* illogical theories or false be liefs which the people of this day are believing will) the incontrovertible, wholesome Ixdiefs of the Bible. 1 would make a test case this morning of these theories and today let you de cide whether you will worship God or whether you will bow before the shrine | of false philosophers. I In order to make our consideration a : little more personal let us this morning use the Socratic method of asking and answering questions. Thus 1 turn to one gentleman and say: “My friend, what is you belief about God? Do you believe there ever was a Creator of the universe? Do you lielieve there is an Intelligent Divine Being who today is ruling all tilings'; What is your idea about God. anyway?” "Well,” you an swer, “I do not believe in God. I am an atheist. I am an atheist in the sense that I am an evolutionist. I be lieve that man is simply the higher form of the animal creation, in the vegetable world the biologists tell us that all plants are developed from some earlier form of plant, so I believe that man is a development from the lower form of animal life. Now, God has absolutely nothing to do with the creation. Law, natural law, has de veloped this world and nothing else. When a baby comes into this world he Is born like a puppy, and when a man goes out of it he dies like a dog. and that Ls all there is in human life.” Do .\<>u believe that, my brethren? Is such a theory rational? Is it according to common sense? Building the Temple. Who made these laws of nature? Who constructed them? Supposing you stood upon Mount Moriah in 1012 B. C. As you stood there you saw the work men excavating a foundation, and you saw a long line of teams drawing up their huge stones on the oue side of the hill, and on the other side of the hill then* came up another line of teams drawing beams and rafters and doors. Then, supposing, without noise of ham mer or rasping of saw, all these differ ent stones and beams and rafters and doors were put Into place, would you for one instant be foolish enough to suppose that King Solomon’s temple, as it rose higher and higher and higher, did not have oue master mind planning it? And yet I want to tell you. from a common sense standpoint, that it is far more rational to suppose King Solo mon’s temple went up by haphazard chance, without any designing archi tect, than to suppose this magnificent temple of a world was created by hap hazard chance. Or take another illustration. Sup posing you take a carriage and dfive through the country and you come to a great wheat region. Then perhaps you find a fine mill built upon a river bank near by. and you see the water of that river dammed up so that it can tumble down ujton a wheel and turn it. Then, watching, you see the wheat taken into that mill and ground Into flour and shipped to the great cities, where it is baked Into bread. You would not be foolish enough to sup tioee all that growing of the wheat and that grinding of the wheat and that baking of the wheat were done by chance. Well, then, if you grant a master mind originated and planned the one process, will you not grant that God i> somewhere around when you see the grass growing in the val leys for the horses and the cattle, and the nuts faring off the tree for the squirt*!*, rud the seeds dropping to Ronal purpose. Did God, the Creator, make this world for no other par- pose than to house bugs and beetle* and animals, of which man is one? Of course if you grant that man Is immor tal and that this earth is a preparatory place where man is to be fitted for di vine companionship with God forever then I can see a rational purpose for the creation. Otherwise there is no rational explanation why this beautiful world was formed. Then alongside of this idea I want you to place the fact that there is an innate universal idea in every man’s life that he is Immortal. Man looks upon the dog and says, “That dog may die. but not man.” He looks upon the bird fiylng through the heavens and Bays, “That bird may die. but not man.” He looks upon the turtle, the longest lived creature uim>d the face of the earth, and says, “That hard shelled creature may die, but not man.” And t •<+ * j . .»1 w . t • I cJ .> Ii ? I e i £ tad band themselves together as states, and then bow states will band themselves together as a nation. When I talk to a child I talk in the language of a c hild. In th* Language of Man. Now, as a rational being, tell me. how can God spiritually talk to mai except in the language of man? In the spiritual sense we are nothing but little children, so jGod says: “I will show those little children how I love them. 1 will reveal to them the love of ihe Heavenly Father. I will appeal to them in the love of the home. I will | have my only begotten Son Ixmi in a ; manger and grow up in Nazareth. Then 1 will prove his divinity by his mini- \ cles and by his beautiful life. Then I will let that Sou die upon the cross to ! atone for their sins.” Tell me, Is not ' that interpretation of Jesus Christ ; rational? If you grant your deism and ! your immortality of the soul, does not wherever you go, no matter where It ! tho , )erS(>ual i ty of chri8t rationally (\iil prove which of the two is able to i Believe in your evolutionist’s theory if you will, but still the fact remains that the only way to produce this world is to have one master mind gov erning all. “Is it more unphilosophieal to believe in a personal God omnipo tent,” wrote Benjamin Disraeli, “than In natural forces unconscious and ii- resistible?” Is It unphilosophieal to combine power with Intelligence? Goethe, a Spinozist who did not believe In Spinoza, said that he could bring his mind to the conception that In the cen ter of space we might meet with a monad of pure Intelligence. What may be the center of space I leave to the Imagination of the author of “Faust.” but a monad of pure intelligence- is that more philosophical than the truth that God made man In his own im age? Where did the great cosmos come from, anyway, unless there was a master mind producing all these liar monies of nature’s laws? A Mighty Army. When 1 look upon the world It ap pears to me like a mighty army upon the march. “Where are you going, sol diers ?’’ I cry. They shake their heads. They do not know. They answer, “The general knows; we do not.” Then as I follow those men 1 find they have great commissary trains near by filled with food. Then I liad the surgeons there, and the scouts there, and the imple ments of war there. Then I find all this vast host wheeling and marching and halting and fighting and retreat ing because they are under the com mand of one mind. Thus with nature’s laws. I find the grass growing, the rain falling, life reproducing life. 1 find all these forces not in conflict, but in harmony. Who created these forces? Who rules them today? Call it a mo nad If you please. I call that individual power God. You cannot if you would, unless you eschew your common sense, deny being a deist. Will you plead to day for the Baal of atheism? “Well, answers another man, “I am not an atheist. I am a deist, but to be lieve in an overruling Providence does not necessarily mean that oue believes in a jiersonal God who cares for us. I believe in God. but I also believe that I am mortal and when I die that is the end of me. Why should God can* for me any more than 1 should care for a little ant in the country road or fora mosquito that alights upon my cheek? Why should I lx* conceited enough to think that God would let me live for ever and ever? I am uo more impor tant in God s sight that a fly’s life is important in my sight.” You say you are a deist and yet do not believe in the immortality of the soul. Then, my brother, as an Intelligent being, how can you account for the purpose of the creation at all? If God is a wise being and an intelligent l>elng, he certainly created this world for something. Now, for what did he create the world? Everything Has a Purpose. Everything has to be done with a ra tional purpose or else the creation Is not rational. Supposing you are a wealthy landowner and some day yon decide to build a magnificent mansion about a mile from your own palace. You liegiu to erect that palace of pur est marble and bang its windows with the choicest o',tapestries and cover Its floors with the -richest of Damascus rugs. Then you will fill Its hails with beautifui statuary and cover its walls with the most exquisite of pictures. Then If next year 1 should enter this magnificent palace and find It unten anted, save by a few cats and dogs and beetles and bugs and Alee and frogs, should I not reasonably say to yon: “W'hat! Did you not build this palace for auy other purpose than t , boose a few animals and bugs?” An i you should answer! “Yes, I am a hu manitarian. I want to let these an!- uads and crawling creatures hav#Jmt as good a house as I live In.” Whpt do you suppose f would think of you? I would*say you are out of your mind, because you do something with no ru may be, the white or the yellow or the black or brown skinned men all cry, "I shall live; I shall live.” If yon are willing to believe the innate beliefs of man, if you believe that man is im mortal, then It is not absurd for us to suppose that God would create this beautiful world to fit man for his celestial residence. Will you today argue against the Immortality of the soul? Another Objector. “Well,” says another man, “I am not an atheist. I believe in God. I also believe in the immortality of the soul But I cannot believe In the incarnation of God in the person of Jesus Christ. I cannot believe in the conception of Jesus or that Christ could be born of the Virgin Mary and of the Holy Spirit. Neither do I believe that Jesus Christ was resurrected after his cruci fixion. I am willing to say with Renan that he was the best man that ever lived. But I am not willing to say Christ was divine and the Sou of God unless at the same time you grant that we are divine.” Is that your position? Well, my brother, it seems to me to be the most illogical position, and for two reasons. Reason the first: You say Christ is the best man that ever lived. You suy that the words which he spake offer the l>est system of morals. But, tell me, why do you accept certain state ments which Christ made and reject grow out of these two premises? Why will you deny that Jesus is your Sav iour? Was he not incarnated in order to show the Divine Father’s love for us, his children? “Well,” you say. “I do believe in Christ, but I do not believe in the verbal inspiration of Scripture. How do we know whether the Bible is our rule of faith and practice?” How do we know? Why, my brother, if you once grant God and Christ’s divine birth and resurrection I do not see how you can deny the inspiration of the Bible. We might expect that God would give the world a record of his will. That Is what the Bible Is. God, in or der to put the stamp of his divinity upon this book, caused the old prophets to tell what was going to happen 1.000 years after their day. Then God has his writers of the New Testa ment show how all these old prophe cies are fulfilled. Then, just as 1,000 different workmen, working under Christopher Wren, cut the stones and lay them all together and pile them up Into one great St. Paul’s cathedral, so God has all these different workmen of the Bible do their separate parts, working in harmony with one another. Thus he fits the different books to gether, and Genesis and Revelation are component parts of out* Ixxtk. The Psalms and the gospels are parts of the same. The story of Ruth and the Do Yon Open Your Hootk Like a young bird and gulp down what ever food or medicine may be offered you ? Or, do you want to know something of the composition and character of that which you take into your stomach whether as food or medicine? Most intelligent and sensible people now-a-days insist on knowing what they employ whether as food or as medicin**. Dr. Pierce believes they have a perfect right to tnaiatuponauch know ledge. Sohe| publiihes;*bBQgd£ast and on each bottle- er, whatjnrinedicines »re made of and esjtyiftldftrxiaub This ha feel* he can u>Ujfford to do because the more tne Ingredient* of which his medicine* are made are studied and understood the more will tlx ir superior curative virtues For the cure of woman’s peculiar weak nesses. irregularities and derangements, giving rise to frequent headaches, back ache. dragging-down pain or distress in lower abdominal <»r p( vie region, accom panied. ofttimes. with a debilitating, pelvic, catarrhal drain and kindred symp toms of weakness. Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription is a most eftDient remedy. It is equally effective in curing painful periods, in giving strength to nursing mothers and in preparing the system oi the expectant mother for baby’s coming, thus rendering childbirth safe and com paratively painless. The "Favorite Pr*s- scription” i> a most potent, strengthening tonic to the general system and to the organs distinctly feminine in particular. It is also a soothing and Invigorating nervine and cures nervous exhaustion, nervous prostration, neuralgia, hysteria, apasms. chorea or St. Vitus’s dance, and other distressing nervous symptoms at tendant ujkjh functional and organic dis eases of the distinctly feminine organs. A host of medical authorities of all the several schooD of practice, recommend each of the several ingredients of which •Favorite Prescription” is made for the cure of the diseases for w hich it isclaimed to be a cu-e You mav r**ad what they say for yourxelf by sending a postal card request for a free ixxtklot of extracts from the leading authorities, to Dr. R. V. Pierce, Invalids' Hotel and Surgical In stitute. Buffalo. N. Y.. and it will come to you by return post. the rest? How can Jesus be a good cradle of Christ are all parts of one man and yet be a liar and a falsifier? ! whole. These different books fit Into How can lx* be a good man and yet be a hypocrite? Jesus Christ Is either di vine and a miracle worker and the Son of God or else he is the most blatant pretender that ever lived. Supposing some young American should leave the mountains of South Carolina and cross the seas and go to Paris and there lay claim to an estate which Michel Ney possessed when he died; supposing that this young man should claim, as some do claim, that Michel Ney was not shot after the de feat of Napoleon at Waterloo by the order of the legislature of France, but that he escaped to America and lived here; then If, further, this young man claimed that M. Ney married while in America and that he, the young man. was the direct descendant of Michel Ney’s oldest son and, continuing his plea, he says, “Because I am that de scendant I claim that I am the right ful heir to the title of Prince of Mosk va, which once belonged to Michel Ney;” then supposing you go to the mountains of South Carolina and prove that this young man was the descend ant of Irish peasants, what would you think? What would France think? No matter what that young man might claim to be, the people would stigma tize this false pretender for the estate of Michel Ney as a liar and a fraud. Now, my friend, by the same law of reasoning it is absolutely illogical to claim that Christ is a good man and yet not divine. Either Christ is all that he claims or else he is a pretender and a fraud. It Is logical to reject Christ as a deceiver, or it is logical to accept him as the Son of God, but it la not logical to regard him as a good man and yet not divine. Not Logical. There is another reason why I take exception to your position that you will uot accept Christ as divine. You say you are a deist. You claim that there are Immortality and eternai com panionship with God. Now, if God Is going to fit you for eternal compan ionship with him, what Is more ra tional than to HUpiK>se that the Heaven ly Father would give you a divine ex ample by which you can understand bis love and follow after his teachings —in other words, that God would give you a divine love in human form and call that divine love Jesus Christ; as the Bible says. "Leaving you an ex ample by which you can understand As a human parent you can readily understand this law. Here, for Instance, one of my little children comes to me and says, "Papa, what do the words ‘United States gov ernment’ mean?” Now. I do not go to my library and take down James Bryce’s “The American Common wealth," and say. “Here, my boy, read that.” Nor I do not go and find for him a constitution of the United States and say. “Here, child, read thaf.” Why, I might as well hand my little boy a book printed In Hebrew ana say, “Read that.” The boy’s mind Is only the mind of a child. What do I do? Why, I take that boy upon my lap and begin to talk to him on his mental level. In the language of a child I explain to him what the gov- srnment of the home means. Than I land him on In the language of th* child and show him how people have banded themselves together In a city government, so that policeman will guard ns. and letter aarrlars will bring our mall, and street hie pec toss wBl keep oor streets dean, and water win b* brought to our homes. Then hi the language of the child I show hhn how dfffertBt cities unite In tho mum war each other as exactly as the stoues of a mosaic floor fit into each other. If you grant God and grant the immor tality of the soul and grant the divini ty of Jesus Christ, I cannot understand why you should deny the divine au thority of the Bible. God the Heav enly Father has written to us a letter, just as our earthly i arents write to us when we are far away from the old homestead. Now comes the great practical ques tion-believing in the Divine Father’s love, believing In immortality and the atonement of Christ and in the divine authority' of Scripture, are we ready with this Divine guidance to fit our selves for celestial companionship with God forever and ever? Are we willing to live the higher Jife and live not for our own fame, but for the heavenly glory? When we begin to study the life of Christ and see what God wants us to do, it is amazing how most of # us are prostituting our ideals to the lowest and the most selfish of motives. Brother, for what are you living? This vast world was made for you, so that in It you can fit yourself for heav enly companionship. Christ died for you in order that you might live a good and useful life. The Bible was written for you to know what God wants you to do. Are you here and now willing to surrender yourself to the higher life? God is calling. Immortality is calling. Christ is calling. The Bible is pointing out for you the true way. Will you, in God’s name, respond to the Divine call and follow the way of the Divine com mandment: “How long wilt thou halt between two opinions? If the Lord be God. follow him, but If Baal, then fol low him^” [Copyright, 1907, by Louis Klopsch.] r--—“i ■Turnip | Seeds i ■Turnip ! Seeds Glastonbury Abbey. Glastonbury abbey Is likely to have more visitors than ever this year in view of its coming under the auc tioneer’s hammer, says a foreign ex change. The ruins are the center of legends which have been regarded by historians as no less doubtful than those of the kings of Rome or of the Trojan war. But the rajffhs enshrine many facts. A testy abbot was Tur- atinus, the first Norman bishop. He did not like the ancient Gregorian music and bade his English monks sing Parisian tones. Obedient In many things, they could not give up their old melodies, so the abbot summoned Norman soldiers to coerce them. A terrible riot ensued in the church, the ruthless Normans slaying many monks. After the conflict ended ar rows were found sticking even in the crucifix over the hizh altar. Mica Axle Crease Helps the Wagon np the Hill The load aeem* lighter—Wagon and team wear longer—You make more money, and have more time to make money, when wheels are greased with „ The kind that grow and make Turnips. 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